Law Enforcement, Media Asleep - Add Your Voice

Yesterday, Minnesota Majority, together with 8 Minnesota gubernatorial candidates, issued a letter to Attorney General Lori Swanson calling for a formal investigation into potential illegal activities on the part of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in Minnesota. 

Recent news stories have revealed evidence of apparent systematic corruption within the ACORN organization.  At least 15 other states have launched investigations into potential election law and other violations on the part of ACORN.  A report issued earlier this year by the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee stated that “ACORN has repeatedly and deliberately engaged in systemic fraud. Both structurally and operationally, ACORN hides behind a paper wall of nonprofit corporate protections to conceal a criminal conspiracy on the part of its directors, to launder federal money in order to pursue a partisan political agenda and to manipulate the American electorate."

Yet here in Minnesota, where we have just had a US Senate race decided by fewer than 400 votes, incredibly there has been no official statewide investigation into the ACORN organization.  Senator Al Franken, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and Attorney General Lori Swanson were all endorsed by ACORN and elected to their offices with their help, but it is our hope that they will place the execution of the duties of their offices ahead of any political allegiances. These officials can prove their loyalty to the voters of Minnesota by responding to your call for an official statewide investigation into ACORN's activities in Minnesota.

It is an unfortunate fact that most Twin Cities reporters have been derelict in their duty to get to the bottom of ACORN and Minnesota's election issues. In Ramsey County alone, 18 individuals have been indicted for voter registration fraud and 5 people have thus far been convicted. Election records indicate that at least two of the five also voted in 2008. There's been no reporting on these convictions and there's been no reporting on the apparent illegal votes. What has been reported in the past is that there's no evidence that fraudulent voter registrations have resulted in fraudulent votes. But now that there's evidence suggesting that illegal votes have indeed resulted from improper registrations, the press is mysteriously silent.

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