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We'd like to help you set up a tax-free 'romance business.'
I should have pushed harder about the exact nature of their knowledge and memory about the event to make that distinction before publication.
I corrected the story because it was brought to my attention, first by David Weigel (not that he alerted me; I read him daily) that the OPP folks’ accounts of the 2006 meeting weren’t exactly what I had believed them to be
newsday's coverage
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4 charged in phone scheme at La. senator's office
...registered hundreds of thousands of voters in urban and other poor areas of the country.By producing undercover videos shot in ACORN offices, O'Keefe brought a firestorm of criticism that the group was helping its low-income clients break the law.Using a hidden... |more
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Probe draws attention to NY's Working Families Party
As word spread Wednesday that the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan subpoenaed documents from the state Working Families Party, Charles Pohanka of North Babylon said, "You know something? I'm very happy."Pohanka, 52, was ousted as the party's Suffolk |more
around the web more stories
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GOP Sends Out Valentine's Day Cards Mocking Democrats
...measure "f---king retarded," sending wishes for a "Happy Valentine's Day." Another card shows the community organizing group ACORN saying "We'd like to help you set up a tax-free 'romance business.'" The group has been under fire since last year when some... |more
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Unforced Error at Salon
...a college-era online diary that has been preserved at Daily Kos; and suggested that O’Keefe’s “racial issues” shaped his approach to ACORN. But the key bit of news was O’Keefe’s attendance at—and his alleged involvement with—a 2006 panel discussion in Washington,... |more
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Harry Reid does not work to help Americans, only his own
...beyond belief. You have heard it from me before. Reid's associations with people like Jack Abramoff and George Soros. Outfits like ACORN and backdoor deals like the Coyote Springs Land Deal and a windfall profit on property he didn't own. He was also tied... |more
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Ed Kilgore: Palin's Saturday Night Live
...showing up at McCain rallies in the autumn of 2008 to upbraid their candidate for failing to talk about Jeremiah Wright and ACORN, and who empathized viscerally with Palin's public frustration about the campaign's unwillingness to "take the gloves off" (a... |more
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Conceptual Census Super Bowl Ad: Bargain Or Boondoggle?
...of Census opponents ranges from Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., an outspoken conservative who opposed the advocacy group ACORN's now-severed ties with the Census Bureau, to Hispanic-American leaders, and also includes Tea Party activists. Early last year,... |more
