John McCain

Everybody Loves ACORN

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Over the weekend Senator McCain said that there were “serious allegations of ‘voter fraud’ in the battleground states across America,” and that ACORN was to blame.

These allegations, unfortunately, are nothing new. But there is something funny about them - they tend to pop up every two years like clockwork and the organization that is targeted […]

ACORN: Responsible for Stolen Elections, the Mortgage Crisis, the Firing of David Iglesias, and That Insidious Growth on Your Big Toe

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

One of the four statements in the title of this post is not like the others in that it is, you know, true.
ACORN. You thought they were a community-based organization of 400,000 families in neighborhoods across the country fighting for the rights of the oppressed and powerless. You thought they were empowering citizens by […]

Those Cagey Cagists are Caging Again

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Reports of “Voter Caging” by the McCain campaign are popping up all over the country. Caging is diabolical, anti-democratic, and wholly un-American.
North Carolina Verified Voting has compiled the stories:
Voter caging is a practice of sending mass direct mailings to registered voters by non-forwardable mail, then compiling lists of voters, called “caging lists,” from the returned […]

Congressman to McCain: STOP!

Friday, September 19th, 2008

From Brad Friedman at Bradblog.com:
The chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers’, is calling on the John McCain campaign to “immediately halt Republican vote suppression efforts,” as seen recently in Michigan — where a county GOP chair announced his intention to use home foreclosure lists to challenge voter eligibility at the polls […]