On Sept. 20 I was a lonely voice calling for the feds to use the RICO statute to put ACORN out of business. Now I’m not so lonely:
Thus far in the 2008 campaign, state election officials representing both major political parties in 15 states, including such key battlegrounds as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, have accused ACORN of various schemes involving widespread voter fraud. The pattern is so pervasive – and the danger to our electoral system so dire – that it demands federal intervention.
… ACORN’s repeated abuses don’t include mafia links, but the pattern matches the organized criminal conduct RICO was passed to combat. …
This is especially true in light of the fact ACORN has endorsed Barack Obama and the vast majority of its new registrants are Democrats Obama, whose campaign paid an ACORN subsidiary $800,000 to register new voters, has downplayed concerns about voter fraud, calling them a “distraction†from the issues. Stuffing the ballot box isn’t a distraction, it’s a felony. And it’s time the Justice Department did something about it.
And there are those rumors coming out of Chicago that the feds are moving.