Sen. McCain Stood With ACORN Rally In 2006

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Source: The Atlantic

A goldfish's lifetime ago, Sen. John McCain was happy to accept the honors and acclamation of the Service Employees International Union, People for the American Way, UNITE HERE -- and ACORN. Here he is, on Feb. 20, 2006, telling immigration rights activists at a rally in Miami that they "are what makes America special." ACORN co-sponsored the rally, and its volunteers surround McCain, and while there's no evidence that McCain ever formally teamed with the group, the video serves as a reminder that he did not mind being associated with them when the politics of the moment were different. (The video clip was e-mailed to this column by a Democrat who supports Barack Obama.)

It's important to know, as you watch this, that ACORN was, to Republican field operatives, a Dirty Word in 2006...and in 2004, but general awareness among politicians and activists of what it does was limited to those who had to deal with its voter registration efforts. See here. (A clue: they were part of the America Coming Together consortium in 2004...that should have been a clue as to their ideological leanings.)

A few weeks ago, House Republicans screamed bloody murder when it appeared as if ACORN would benefit from the bailout bill, although McCain, President Bush and House Republicans have supported legislation with similar provisions before and they spent billions on the Road Home project, which contracts with ACORN to help provide housing for Katrina refugees. (You can't say...ah, but ACORN wasn't suspected of doing anything bad earlier... you can't say that because ACORN has been doing what ACORN is accused of doing for several cycles now.)

Read more: http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/a_lifetime_ago_sen_john.php

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video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ9wy2MI1N

[Ian David]

1. See also

http://tinyurl.com/McAcorn



http://tinyurl.com/McAcorn

[norepubsin08]

2. Good Job

This needs to be spread around...I worked for ACORN in 2004 registering voters..we were constantly being told that if we had too high a rate of unsubstantiated registrations that we would be losing our jobs. I personally registered 2,136 people during that campaign and of those 41 were not verifiable.

[CountAllVotes]

3. glad to see this info.

there is a call on my answering machine from someone I know and she's all p.o.'d re: ACORN and "election theft in 13 states". Luckily I was in bed asleep when the call came in as I don't know what I would have said.

If she calls back I can say, "Oh yes, ACORN - isn't that something that John McCain was in on?". :evilgrin:

:kick:

[Roland99]

4. Link to the announcement from the Miami Dade College press release in this GD: P thread >>>>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7442472&mesg_id=7442472

[Omaha Steve]

5. The link in the post didn't work

This one in the story did: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ9wy2MI1NI&eurl=http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/a_lifetime_ago_sen_john.php