McCain Was Keynote Speaker at ACORN Event in 2006

[struggle4progress]

October 14, 2008 at 14:08:35
Diary Entry by Mark C. Eades

... McCain is pictured here seated beside Florida representative Kendrick Meek at an event held in Miami on Feb. 20, 2006 in support of comprehensive immigration reform, which McCain also supported back when he was still a little bit mavericky. The event was sponsored by ACORN, the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, the Florida Immigrant Coalition, People for the American Way/Mi Familia/Vota en Accion, UNITE/HERE, Catholic Charities, the Service Employees International Union, and the New American Opportunity Campaign among other progressive groups ...

A video of the event including McCain's address clearly demonstrates McCain's support for ACORN's objectives: "What makes America special...," McCain's declares to an audience filled with with red-shirted ACORN members, "...is what's in this room tonight."

Once at odds with conservatives in his own party owing to his support of comprehensive immigration reform, McCain has since abandoned his former position and fallen into line with the anti-immigrant far right, as ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis observed in a statement issued with the photo ...

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=10102

[hay rick]

1. He was for ACORN before he was against it.

What an opportunist. So which is the real John McCain and does anybody care? He changes positions like other people change their underwear.

[tavalon]

2. Geez! McCain ca't even do his negative campaigning well!