Politics-ACORN

I organized my first political gathering, i guess you could call it that Tuesday AM. Our Congressman, Steve King, office called a week ago wondering if i could pull together a little town hall meeting for our county. Of course I wanted to. But i was a little worried about getting enough people there that it would be worth his time. Well it was a success, Larry you think so?? All i really did was find the location, food suggestions to the manager of the restaurant, and make phone calls. I'm so blessed to be on our Central Committee where i can depend on many of them to either come and/or, spread the word. There was 30 people there. I think not bad for being the 2nd smallest county in Iowa.

This was an opportunity for Congressman King to talk to his constituents about the upcoming elections. MAN!!! I know this ACORN thing has been talked about a lot but i guess i just never sat down and thought about it. So to help me out I emailed my buddy 'Doc' and here's what he said:
ACORN poses as a non-profit organization lobbying for equal rights, especially for the poor or under privileged. ACORN has received millions of tax-payer money as a result of hidden earmarks and pork in other bills. Obama has worked with in signing up voters for registration purposes and later served as an attorney for them. The first bailout package that was voted down with no votes by House Of Representatives such as Iowa Republican Steve King helped knock it down - one earmark was for ACORN to receive millions of dollars more. During their conventions, they have endorsed Obama which violates a non-profit principal of being political. ACORN has been found, this year, to have registered even more adults than there are in Alabama. This is happening in at least 14 states on a very visible level. States without ID's in many states can still vote - it's not a requirement - in Iowa, we have passed this law that an ID must be shown - in 26 states, no ID is required - in the 24 states that do require an ID, only 6 of them require a "pictured" ID - serious? You be the judge - sure looks to stack up for Obama - do a little of your own research and see how he won his first election as a state senator - then, check out how he became a national senator.

This is me now: The thing that gets me more then who these so called 'people' would vote for is how WRONG it is. It undermines our constitution. It's taking away what i think is a right, to vote. They are making it way to easy.

As Congressman King pointed out today, Mutt and Jeff can show up at the polls, ON ELECTION DAY, and vote. Now when asked for a form of ID and they don't have any, all it takes is for Mutt to vouch for Jeff and vice versa. THAT'S IT!! Go vote!

The worse part?? we can do nothing! UNLESS you want to go sit at your polling place and contest any questionable voter. They would still be able to vote, however there vote would be put in place where it would be investigated before it's counted. But who can go sit at a polling place and do this? AND would it do any good at all??

I find it pretty scary whats happening out there. I of course have no answers or solutions. I'd be best to not start thinking of solutions. It's bad enough around here when i say to my DH 'hey i have an idea' if i start throwing out political ideas he may very well send me to DC on a one way ticket. Actually HE is the one that has the great ideas when it comes to politics. He's pretty level headed on hearing both sides and making thoughts with everyones thoughts. views, etc in mind.

What do you all think if this ACORN situation? Does it scare you to think that come election day millions of votes could be cast by people that can't read, write, illegal citizens or heck may be even a dead gold fish!? No lie, they found a fraudulent vote in OH i believe, where the name was a dead gold fish! Heard it on XM radio yesterday.

I did find out Gov. Palin is coming this way Saturday. Oh how I'd love to see her BUT I'd have to be on the road by 7 AM, doors open @ 9AM and Palin isn't to speak till NOON! If i didn't have to find a sitter, or FF-S didn't have to too, we'd be there. But the last Bush event I went to we didn't get to sit on the stage like we did in the past. Instead we had to join everyone else on the floor. Standing for hours next to annoying or stinky people. I decided then, i was spoiled once by being on the stage (thanks to my Dad and his 'office' in politics) i'm not doing it again.