ACORN discussion - can we move this into one thread?

[Mavdog]

Originally Posted by kg_veteran

The reason we can't seem to agree is that you attribute no wrongdoing to ACORN in this whole matter.

You probably don't attribute any wrongdoing to ACORN in all of the voter fraud scams, either.

"wrongdoing"? no, I can't see that acorn was guilty of "wrongdoing" in pursuing their goals of better accessibility to housing, and an even chance by minorities and lower income people at getting a lender to make a loan rather than the lender determining that they wouldn't make loans to "those people".

do you see that as "wrongdoing"?

do I see the idea that everyone should own a home illconceived? absolutely, some people have no business owning a home if they are not responsible enough.

as for the voter registration frauds, the "wrongdoing" was committed by the contract workers who cheated.

should acorn have improved systems to catch these worker's cheating? absolutely.

is the system where acorn pays the worker for each voter registration card full of potential problems such as the fraud we've heard about? absolutely.

is acorn committing "wrongdoing" by attempting to register as many eligible voters as can be registered? no.

do you believe that there should not be any private based efforts made to register eligible voters?