“ACORN’s fraudulent activities threaten to dilute the votes of millions of Pennsylvania voters by allowing unqualified individuals to cast ballots and again undermine the voters’ confidence in the electoral process in the upcoming election,”

Acorn countered with a claim that the GOP was just trying to supress the Black Vote:

Pennsylvania GOP Sues ACORN and Rendell Appointee

Posted by Jeffrey Lord

The Pennsylvania Republican Party filed a lawsuit on Friday against Secretary of the Commonwealth Pedro Cortes and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and its subsidiaries.

The announcement was made at a press conference in the State Capitol by Pennsylvania Republican State Chairman Robert Gleason. “With the election being only a couple of weeks away and with more and more incidents of voter fraud coming to light, we don’t believe that we can trust the results of this election,” Gleason said.

It alleges fraud in the counties of Philadelphia, Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Delaware (suburban Philadelphia), and Dauphin (in Central Pennsylvania and site of the state capital of Harrisburg).

Both ACORN representatives and a representative of Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor, Obama supporter Edward G. Rendell, were present at the press conference and opposed the move in separate presentations of their own.

“ACORN’s fraudulent activities threaten to dilute the votes of millions of Pennsylvania voters by allowing unqualified individuals to cast ballots and again undermine the voters’ confidence in the electoral process in the upcoming election,” added retired Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Sandra Newman. “The Republican Party of Pennsylvania is seeking to obtain relief necessary to ensure that the 2008 General Election is fair, open and honest manner in order to preserve the ability of qualified Pennsylvanians to cast votes.”

The lawsuit was filed in Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court. The suit charges Cortes, a Rendell appointee, with not giving county officials “timely” data to search the state’s computer system to look for fraudulent voter registrations. It seeks an order directing the Secretary of the Commonwealth to ensure that the Statewide Uniform Registry of Elector (SURE) System “provides, in a timely and efficient manner all Election Officials data about registrants ineligible to vote, as required by state and federal law.” It also demands that Cortes “ensure that all Election Officials require identification from all first-time registrants and also demands that the Secretary provide a significantly larger amount of provisional ballots at each polling place so that voters whose voter registration has not been timely processed by Election Officials on or before the day of the 2008 General Election can vote provisionally.”

The state GOP is also asking that ACORN and its subsidiaries be blocked “from all attempts to encourage voters who have submitted false or duplicate registration forms from voting or attempting to vote in the 2008 General Election,” and that the court “directs the ACORN Defendants to provide to the Plaintiffs, the Secretary and the Election Officials copies of any and all lists identifying the names of individuals for whom the ACORN Defendants submitted voter registration forms, and directs the ACORN Defendants to fund public service announcements to educate all first time voters about the requirements to present identification in accordance with state and federal law, whether voting in person or via absentee ballot.”

ACORN officials held their own news conference to accuse the GOP of “voter suppression” targeting minorities in an effort to deny them the vote. It claimed it has registered 144,000 new voters in Pennsylvania with between 60 to 70 percent being identified as “people of color.

Rendell spokesman Chuck Ardo also spoke to reporters, accusing Gleason and the other participants in the suit of being “Republican hatchet men” trying to steer attention from a looming defeat. He described the GOP suit as whining.

Pennsylvania is considered a “battleground” state in the presidential election. Both candidates and their running mates have appeared repeatedly in the state and commercials are flooding the state’s five media markets from Philadelphia in the Southeast to Pittsburgh and Erie in the West.

The ACORN allegation of “voter suppression” comes in the wake of a controversial remark by Pennsylvania Democrat Congressman John Murtha of Johnstown in Western Pennsylvania in which Murtha painted his own constituents as racist, telling the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in an interview that “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area.” Murtha later apologized.

Are we clear on all this? The state that chose Hillary Clinton over Obama in the Democratic primary is filled with racists because those same voters may actually vote for John McCain. So the answer is to flood the voter rolls with fraudulent voters who are “people of color” who may or may not live at any assortment of vacant lots and empty buildings yet have somehow registered dozens of times.

And the answer from Governor Rendell?

Hey! No problem!!!!

It sounds as if things were up to CNN’s Rick Sanchez, African American’s would be required by law to vote for Senator Barack (don’t dare use my middle name) Obama. Sanchez was interviewing first time voters and the poor guy almost had a heart attack when he rank across Black voters who are voting based on what they feel the Issues are rather then the color of one candidates skin. Sanchez even asked if people where pressuring the Black Republican for “Selling out his race.”

Now if he was interviewing a White-skinned voter who said that he was voting for McCain because he was white you would hear screams of racism. Watch the You tube video or read the transcript both are below:

Here it comes, Barack (Don’t Use my Middle Name!) Obama’s answer to the Bill Ayers Charge. John Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Georgia, condemned McCain for “sowing the seeds of hatred and division” and accusing the Republican nominee of potentially inciting violence. Then he said that John McCain was like George Wallace. Of Course there some MAJOR differences between the two, for one George Wallace was a DEMOCRAT.

Of course there is no outrage coming from the media over this statement. Its OK to make up a statement about McCain being a racist, but heaven forbid you report the truth about Obama and Ayers, or Obama and Wright, or Obama and the Democratic Socialist Party, etc. THAT IS RACIST.

So lets all petition Websters to change their definition.

Racist:Someone who tells the truth about a candidate from the Democratic Party and his/her unsavory friends.

More about Lewis and the Media’s ignorance below:

John Lewis Smears McCain As Enabling Racist Violence; WaPo Sugar-Coats It In Blandness By Tim Graham

Created 2008-10-12 08:43

The front page of Sunday’s Washington Post carried the headline “Issue of Race Creeps Into Campaign.” [1] That’s a very bland headline for a story if you wanted people to read the article. It should have been something more descriptive of the bombshell that was coming: “Congressman Compared McCain with George Wallace, Birmingham Church Bombers.” Anne Kornblut reported:

Yesterday, civil rights leader John Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Georgia, became the latest advocate to excite the racial debate, condemning Sen. John McCain for “sowing the seeds of hatred and division” and accusing the Republican nominee of potentially inciting violence.

In a provocative twist, Lewis drew a rhetorical line connecting McCain to the segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace, and through Wallace to the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham that killed four girls. McCain voiced outrage at the comments, which also drew a mild rebuke from an aide to Sen. Barack Obama.

A “provocative twist”? Is that the best Kornblut can do?

This is shocking, to say the least, when the media have suggested that associating Obama with his vicious minister of twenty years is unfair, and when Obama’s relationship with bomber Bill Ayers is much stronger than any connection between McCain and the 1963 church bombings. This is, however, nothing new for Lewis, who has used his civil-rights-leader aura to unload hateful exaggerations on conservatives, which the liberal media then pussyfoot around. In March of 1995, Lewis compared the new Republican Congress to the Nazis, and the media ignored that or downplayed it. From Brent Bozell’s column [2] at the time:

The liberal media are sufferiing from an achingly obvious double standard, and they just can’t be that blind to it. On March 21, Rep. John Lewis took to the House floor and compared the Republicans to the Nazis, paraphrasing an anti-Nazi saying from World War II: “They’re coming for our children, they’re coming for the poor, they’re coming for the sick, the elderly and the disabled.”

No network considered it news that night to report a liberal Democrat had labeled the GOP as Nazis. When NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski aired Lewis’s remarks on the March 22 Today show, he followed with Republican Clay Shaw calling them “an outrage.” Then, Miklaszewski amazingly suggested the attack was acceptable political discourse by dismissing it: “Outrage or not, Democratic attempts to paint Republicans as heartless budget cutters are beginning to hit home.” The closest thing to network criticism of Lewis’s remarks came from Miklaszewski and Bob Schieffer calling the debate — the debate, not Rep. Lewis — “nasty.” On ABC’s Good Morning America, Bob Zelnick simply termed the debate “emotional.”

The Lewis outrage was not a one-time occurrence, but a recurring theme of the Democrats that’s yet to spur any media scrutiny. A few weeks back, Rep. Charles Rangel compared Republicans to Nazis in a letter to Rep. Bill Archer — no network coverage there. In December, Jesse Jackson declared: “The Christian Coalition was a strong force in Germany. It laid down a suitable, scientific, theological rationale for the tragedy in Germany. The Christian Coalition was very much in evidence there.” No coverage followed on ABC, CBS, or CNN; NBC simply mentioned the slander.

Comparing the modern Republican Party to hate-filled slaughterers of millions simply does not strike the network types as far-fetched, no matter who says it.

Kornblut offered more detail inside the paper. We learn that Lewis didn’t say this off the cuff. It was in a prepared written statement, so it’s even less defensible as if it were simply an off-the-cuff emotional outburst:

Lewis yesterday used a racial frame to leverage one of the harshest cases against McCain this year. “As one who was a victim of violence and hate during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, I am deeply disturbed by the negative tone of the McCain-Palin campaign. What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history,” Lewis, 68, wrote in a statement.

Wallace “never fired a gun,” Lewis added, “but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights. Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed. . . . Senator McCain and Governor Palin are playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all.”

McCain, who has repeatedly hailed Lewis as a personal hero, immediately called the comments “shocking and beyond the pale.”

Obama’s spokesman, Bill Burton, distanced the campaign from Lewis’s remarks, saying Obama “does not believe that John McCain or his policy criticism is in any way comparable to George Wallace or his segregationist policies. But John Lewis was right to condemn some of the hateful rhetoric.”

But Kornblut and her editors tried to make this about “racially tinged remarks” on both sides, grasping at straws like the use of “Barack Hussein Obama” on the stump, Sarah Palin’s “palling around with terrorists” line about Ayers, and the “that one” debate snippet to somehow compare to John Lewis.

McCain also complained that Lewis had launched “a brazen and baseless attack on….my character and the thousands of hardworking Americans who come to our events.” Those words didn’t make the Post account.

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[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/11/AR2008101102216.html
[2] http://www.mrc.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/1995/col19950413.asp