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In an ACORN press release we quoted yesterday, in our article noting the 1.3 million reasons the GOP is working so hard to “Dixie-Chick” the tireless democracy-supporting efforts of the community organization, they courageously declared:

ACORN will not be intimidated, we will not be provoked, and in this important moment in history we will not allow anyone to distract us from these vital efforts to empower our constituencies and our communities to speak for themselves.

If that unflinching response to the wingnut democracy-haters doesn’t underscore how ACORN is not a part of the Democratic Party, I don’t know what does. But, in any case, in a comment in response to my article, longtime BRAD BLOG troll “Smithy” wrote this:

Anyone who has donated money to this site in order to presevre voting rights in this country should stop today. Every fraudulent vote that Acorn produced cancels the vote of a legal and rightful voter. Brads effort to cover this up shows us that he isnt interested in legal accurate voting, hes interested in party politics.
Brad, you should be ashamed.

Well, for a start, there are exactly zero “fraudulent vote[s] that Acorn produced,” no matter what the liar “Smithy,” and the rest of the shameless GOP liars, might try to tell you (with exactly zero evidence to back up their obnoxious and dangerous claims).

But I’m happy to thank “Smithy” for the reminder that it is your donations to The BRAD BLOG that keep it going, as we receive no corporate or foundational support, so that we can continue to do our part to “presevre voting rights in this country.”

Like ACORN, “we will not be intimidated, we will not be provoked, and in this important moment in history we will not allow anyone to distract us from these vital efforts to empower our constituencies and our communities to speak for themselves.”

So if you’d like to help us do just that, please click here to send a BRAD BLOG donation in “Smithy’s” dishonor! (If you’d like to be a monthly sustaining supporter of any amount, please use the easy blue box in the right side bar. If you’d like to donate $50 or more one time, we’ll be happy to send you a signed DVD of either Murder, Spies & Voting Lies or Uncounted. Your choice. Details here…)

If you’d prefer to donate to any other pro-democracy organization instead of, or in addition to The BRAD BLOG, in the name of “Smithy” and his ilk, please consider one of the following BRAD BLOG-approved groups: ACORN; VotersUnite.org; VoterAction.org; BlackBoxVoting.org; Palast Investigaive Fund; VelvetRevolution.us (Disclosure: We co-founded VR).

And/or, feel free to support any of the candidates, from any party, who have gone on record pledging to Stand Up For Voters this year for a change!

Thanks, “Smithy”!

P.S. I’ll be on The Randi Rhodes Show today at 4:30pm ET (1:30pm PT) to discuss the GOP’s ACORN “voter fraud” fraud with Randi. Please consider supporting her and Mike Malloy’s underdog progressive syndicator NovaM Radio as well!

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  1. 1)
    Nunyabiz said on 10/13/2008 @ 1:34pm PT: [Permalink]

    “”If that unflinching response to the wingnut democracy-haters doesn’t underscore how ACORN is not a part of the Democratic Party, I don’t know what does.””

    No truer words have ever been spoken because the Demspinelesscrats would have done nothing what so ever except maybe apologize for something they didn’t do.
    I swear I hate them almost as much as I do the rethuglicans.

    Delusional trolls like Smithy should be ignored 99% of the time, except for something like this which I think is a great idea, use his own “verbage” to charge up the sane & rational amongst us that are sick & tired of the totally insane & irrational extreme Reich wing lunatics that have no clue what they are talking about.

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    Smithy said on 10/13/2008 @ 7:39pm PT: [Permalink]

    Thats right ladies and gentleman, Run down to your nearest Acorn rep and sign up 72 times. Then you can donate all the money and cigerettes they give you to the bradblog, we know Brad likes both.

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    Nunyabiz said on 10/14/2008 @ 4:09am PT: [Permalink]

    Why would I do that just to have THEM flag each and every one as fraudulent and then turn them in which they are REQUIRED to do BY LAW with a cover page stating they are fraudulent?

    Not to mention a single fraudulent voter registration will never vote even once let alone 72 times even IF by some slight chance one squeaks through they still wont actually vote at the polls.
    and the odds of 10s of 1000s of such incidents happening are exactly ZERO.

    “Voter fraud” is of little to no concern at all because it could never make more than a 0.001% difference in any election.

    “Election Fraud” however which Republicans have clearly and blatantly committed in the 2000/04’/06′ elections can be committed by just ONE person, done in such a way that nobody would know nor can actually stop them since “electronic voting machines” can be so easily rigged.

    So are you really so ignorant to believe that 100s of 1000s of Mickey Mouses can manage to vote enough to actually sway an election enough to steal a states electoral votes?
    and deny that Election Fraud which has been positively proven has occurred in the last 3 elections has happened which would only take ONE person to commit in order to steal as many damn states as you wish with ease and no paper trail?

    You are seriously delusional.
    I suggest you start taking your meds again.

  4. 6)
    Nunyabiz said on 10/14/2008 @ 10:27am PT: [Permalink]

    ROTFL

    Wow 4 people out of 9 MILLION?

    That is like 0.00044% of the vote.

    Yep that is sure going to sway an election and steal the state isn’t it? LOL

    Meanwhile rethuglicans stole what something like 357,000 votes in just Ohio in 2004?

    You really are that ignorant aren’t you?

    Kerry won by over 8 MILLION votes in 2004.
    Elections are not stolen and CAN NOT be stolen through “voter fraud” it would be virtually impossible requiring that 100s of 1000s of people repeatedly break the law AND actually get away with it.

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    Brad Friedman said on 10/14/2008 @ 11:21pm PT: [Permalink]

    Poor poor “Smithy” said:

    Thats right ladies and gentleman, Run down to your nearest Acorn rep and sign up 72 times.

    So sad. You’ll beleive anything won’t ya, Smithers?

    To help ya out, if you register 72 times at the same address, you get exactly how many votes out of that?

    That’s right genius. Here’s some assistance if you need help with the math…
    https://bradblog.com/?p=6512

    But thanks for the link, and all the great support you’ve helped bring to BRAD BLOG!

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