Ms. Lewis is also the co-Chair of the Working Families Party, created by “a coalition of labor unions, ACORN and other community organizations” and also has a “powerful alliance” with SEIU.
And, OH LOOK! WFP is being sued for fraud and money laundering!
The labor-backed Working Families Party has engaged in “an audacious scheme to violate the law” to help the party’s favored political candidates get elected, a sweeping new lawsuit charges.The first-of-its-kind suit says the WFP created a political outfit, Data and Field Services, that it is using to “circumvent state election and local campaign finance laws.”
The way the scheme works, according the suit, is that the WFP gets involved in local races, backing its favored candidates, who in turn hire DFS for vital campaign services, such as phone banking, polling and get-out-the-vote efforts.
But under the plan, the WFP-endorsed candidates pay only “a nominal sum, well below fair market value,” for those services — giving those candidates a major, unfair advantage over their opponents, whose spending is limited by law. [...]
“Something doesn’t fit. Somebody’s cooking the books,” attorney Randy Mastro said.
“It would appear DFS was created as a corporate veil to shield the WFP, [which is] funneling campaign contributions to candidates they support.”
ACORN again in the middle of an ethical scandal? Oh, who woulda thunk it? I mean ONE.DAY.STORY.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/27 @ 11:11 am #
She’s a criminal I think, Bertha Lewis is. Someone should throw her crook ass in jail even if the Republican National committee chairman, useless pussy Michael Steele, thinks she’s the bestest thing ever.
Comment by B Moe on 10/27 @ 11:12 am #
Are there really no young, ambitious reporters out there who know the story of Woodward and Bernstein?
Comment by happyfeet on 10/27 @ 11:12 am #
*C*ommittee I mean. Capitalized.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/27 @ 11:14 am #
Capitalized cause of it’s very, very important.
Comment by Snowcone on 10/27 @ 11:14 am #
Five wingnuts using the courts to try to overturn the will of the people.
The surprises keep flowing out of Ironyland today.
Comment by Eben on 10/27 @ 11:23 am #
Five wingnuts using the courts to try to overturn the will of the people.
The surprises keep flowing out of Ironyland today.
lulwat
Comment by cranky-d on 10/27 @ 11:29 am #
Yeah, wingnuts never call people out for violating laws. Ever. This is the first time.
Comment by hot fudge sundae on 10/27 @ 11:30 am #
“The surprises keep flowing out of Ironyland today.”
For your own sake you really should learn what irony means. It is obvious your special ed teachers failed you.
Comment by JustRuss IT1(SW) USN [retired] on 10/27 @ 12:19 pm #
Five Wingnuts blah blah blah…
Because the will of the people is to cheat in order to win an election, it doesn’t matter if the numbers end up being correct or not as long as your party wins?
This is the way courts are supposed to be used, to UPHOLD the law, not to undermine it.
Comment by Carin on 10/27 @ 12:24 pm #
Irony … you know, rain on your wedding day and all that. duh
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 12:29 pm #
Irony was the Word-of-the-Day on alphie’s desktop calendar from 1993.
Comment by DarthRove on 10/27 @ 12:31 pm #
I thought irony was a free ride when you’ve already paid, or the good advice that you just didn’t take.
Who woulda thought… it figures…
Comment by Charlie Gibson on 10/27 @ 12:32 pm #
Working Families Party? Never heard of it…
Comment by Carin on 10/27 @ 12:38 pm #
It is those things too, Darth!
Conflating it with “will of the people” and illegal election activity? Not so much.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/27 @ 12:45 pm #
How many days has it been since alphie/snocone declared the ACORN kerfuffle a “one day story?”
I think we’ve moved on to “months” now …
Comment by Squid on 10/27 @ 12:46 pm #
Irony would be if Diebold was behind the effort to put the socialists in office.
Am I the only one who remembers when Democrats pretended to be against vote fraud?
Comment by Bertha Lewis on 10/27 @ 12:47 pm #
You wingnutz don’t know shit! In fact you don’t know how many candidates we turned down when approached for campaign support!
Of course they were all Republicans but still …
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 12:56 pm #
ONE. DAY. STORY. BITCHES.
Comment by TaiChiWawa on 10/27 @ 1:01 pm #
Imagine if they had favored Republicans.
Comment by B Moe on 10/27 @ 1:07 pm #
Well Diebold had to be in the tank for the Republicans, Squid. How else do you explain the Dems cheating like motherfuckers and Bush still getting elected?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/27 @ 1:12 pm #
“#
Comment by B Moe on 10/27 @ 11:12 am #
Are there really no young, ambitious reporters out there who know the story of Woodward and Bernstein?”
But W & B took down a Republican, doncha know.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/27 @ 1:13 pm #
Irony is the ACORN ONE.DAY.STORY lingering on and on and on, exposing them as the ongoing criminal enterprise they are.
Right, snowtard?
Comment by Great Mencken's Ghost! on 10/27 @ 1:14 pm #
be fair, Darleen. Bertha isn’t the chief crook. She’s just the lawn jockey out in front of the two white guys.
Hmmm… that sounds familiar…
Comment by geoffb on 10/27 @ 1:16 pm #
This could have an effect on the NY-23 race since the WFP has endorsed the Democrat this election and has had in the past GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava running on their ballot line.
WFP, we thought we couldn’t lose as both the Republican and the Democrat were actually ours, behind that curtain, now tattered a bit. WFP Whatever F***ing Party.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 1:22 pm #
How could someone run under the WFP and then Republican?
Comment by Pablo on 10/27 @ 1:25 pm #
Fusion voting. You can be on multiple lines and the total vote counts.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 10/27 @ 1:26 pm #
Laws are only for teh wingnutz.
Yous see, our friends on the Left can and should do anything and everything to win, because it’s “the will of the people”! Right, Snowy?
I think Snowcone revealed more about himself here than he intended.
Comment by Pablo on 10/27 @ 1:35 pm #
That sounds like one of those paranoid wingnut blackboard conspiracy theories meya was mewling about.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 1:36 pm #
Given WFP’s situation, affiliations, and obvious douchenozzlery, it should give people pause that Dede was on their line on any ballot, anywhere, anytime.
Comment by Pablo on 10/27 @ 1:44 pm #
I think it has, JD. Dede has had a bad couple of weeks and it didn’t get any better today.
Comment by Huey on 10/27 @ 2:09 pm #
Irony is what my Central American maid does as I while away the hours at my white only country club drinking beverages from exploited third world countries and share insider tips on companies that make huge profits by not paying their employees a living wage or providing any health care benefits.
You see, I am a Northeastern Democrat.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/27 @ 2:13 pm #
Whoa, Pablo. Dede’s sinking faster than a lead yawl.
Comment by sdferr on 10/27 @ 2:20 pm #
Would that Charlie Crist should follow her down.
Comment by ted360 on 10/27 @ 2:23 pm #
Dear Lord, this post is fatuous. Connecting the WFP with ACORN is like tying Pat Buchanan’s independent run with the official republican party. Bertha Lewis and ACORN aren’t even mentioned in the Post’s breathless account, yet somehow they are connected! Just a Beckian analysis.
And, that bait and switch hides the fact that this is partisan lawsuit and the “news” story pretends that a complaint = evidence….which, if true, means Dick Cheney would still be writing checks to Valerie Plame. It’s amazing that the Post’s “journalism” actually looks good compares to shoddy guilt by association tactics employed by Darleen.
We get it: you all lothe ACORN and that Dede chick and you love this Hoffman dude and him winning will sure show Obama and those RINO’s. But, don’t let your desire to see a Unified Theory get ahead of any facts or anything.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/27 @ 2:26 pm #
Connecting the WFP with ACORN is like staring at a pair of cojoined twins.
TFTFY.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/27 @ 2:27 pm #
Irony is ted mentioning the word “facts”.
Comment by hot fudge sundae on 10/27 @ 2:31 pm #
Lemme guess Ted. The “360″ is you spinning on Baracky cock.
Comment by Darleen on 10/27 @ 2:35 pm #
ted360
You don’t think that the current CHAIR of an organization should be concerned when that organization is sued for fraud?
Really? Really?
Comment by ted360 on 10/27 @ 2:35 pm #
Okay, n, your baseless assertion, combined with your tedious “insult,” sold me! Despite the fact that Acorn is not mentioned, they must be the same, because yesterday your old ass learned the word irony and you worked into conversation today! I’m convinced! Facts be damned
Comment by ted360 on 10/27 @ 2:37 pm #
Did you read the article? ACORN and Mrs. Lewis may be terrible, but they are not part of the WFP story. It is a nice look at paranoid politics.
Comment by Darleen on 10/27 @ 2:38 pm #
ted360
Again, is this where you assert the CHAIR of an organization should not be concerned when it is being sued?
Comment by SDN on 10/27 @ 2:48 pm #
These people are beyond parody…. and impossible to live in the same country with.
Comment by ted360 on 10/27 @ 3:00 pm #
According to Jammiewearingfool Imagine my surprise to discover Lewis is the state co-chair of the WFP.
So, the articles, which don’t mention Lewis or Acorn, and allege a minor campaign finance violation (which later stories on other sites indicate was properly documented) by one specific candidate means that Lewis is uber-god of vast conspiracy to unite these two organizations? Wow!
Did you Dick Cheney was head of Halliburton?
Did you know that every Republican is guilty of election fraud, because Michael Steele was accused of it http://www.mofopolitics.com/2009/02/07/oh-crap-michael-steele-potential-scandal/
You can make the connection here if you would like, but I’d watch dragging it from under the right wing conspiracy rock.
Bertha Lewis, scarier than Barrack Obama and George Soros combined!
Comment by geoffb on 10/27 @ 3:01 pm #
From the horses mouth.
Comment by ginsewa on 10/27 @ 3:05 pm #
Apparently, turd360 is unaware that ACORN has regularly set up phony WFP “parties” in order to run lefty whack-jobs on both Democratic AND WFP tickets. The point was so that everyone knew who to vote for, in the case of multiple Dem candidates. Or confused “Republicans,” like Dede.
Comment by geoffb on 10/27 @ 3:07 pm #
Then we have this.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/27 @ 3:11 pm #
But, but, but … Bertha Lewis is not mentioned in the article! HOW DARE YOU MAKE OBVIOUS CONNECTIONS ON YOUR OWN WITHOUT CONSULTING A REAL JOURNALIST!!!
Ted360 is going to be so angry!
Comment by Darleen on 10/27 @ 3:12 pm #
ted360
Dude, what I wrote is not what you think I wrote.
Get a refill on your Xanax.
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/27 @ 3:17 pm #
Ted is a huge tool. But it is funny to watch a leftard flailing as though Darleen proclaimed this to be some smoking gun. It’s just another bread crumb in the urban swamp.
Comment by MDr on 10/27 @ 3:33 pm #
And it’s just a coincidence, that ACORN’s former National HQ (N.O.) housed WFP & SEIU. No story here. MoveOn. Right Ted?
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 3:43 pm #
Where did you go, teddy? Facts got your tongue?!
This trolly troll is trying to out-idiot alphie.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 3:47 pm #
Theodore360 has forever beclowned himself.
Comment by geoffb on 10/27 @ 4:15 pm #
Back to O!camp® for a new 3 ring binder of the latest talking points, a new IP and identity.
Comment by B Moe on 10/27 @ 4:17 pm #
Yup, geoffb, I think the panic is starting.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 4:34 pm #
I read Theodore’s comments and realized that he his having a pubic audition for the Head Fluffer position on the Olbergasm and MadCow shows.
Comment by newrouter on 10/27 @ 4:36 pm #
from the mouth of the senior advisor to the president of the united states:
“We’re going to speak truth to power.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/27/pathetic-jarrett-backtracks-from-fox-news-bias-claim-when-asked-about-msnbc/
Comment by ghost707 on 10/27 @ 4:42 pm #
I just saw that.
I think Spengler may be right when he days Obama is going to self-destruct.
The administration seems to be sprinting towards the ash heap now.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 4:43 pm #
When did the President start “calling people out”? Why is Jarrett saying drivel like speaking truth to power?
Good Allah, they are a bunch of children.
Comment by ghost707 on 10/27 @ 4:45 pm #
days = says
Who keeps moving my keyboard letters around? Speak up damnit!
Comment by Darleen on 10/27 @ 4:47 pm #
“truth to power”…A WHITE HOUSE aide d’camp had the chutzpah to utter that phrase about a news organization?
Holy Mary Mother of God, talk about your paranoid, Nixonian, bunker mentalities!
Comment by B Moe on 10/27 @ 4:51 pm #
If the White House is speaking truth to power, doesn’t that imply they see Fox News as more powerful than they are?
What he said.
Comment by newrouter on 10/27 @ 4:53 pm #
i wonder which card needs to be pulled for the house to collapse
Comment by newrouter on 10/27 @ 5:04 pm #
45 years ago today:
” “Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, “We don’t know how lucky we are.” And the Cuban stopped and said, “How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to.” And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man.
This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down—[up] man’s old—old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism…
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. So governments’ programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth…
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.
We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. ”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvg7lRsCVJ8
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/27 @ 5:12 pm #
“Comment by ted360 on 10/27 @ 2:37 pm #
Did you read the article? ACORN and Mrs. Lewis may be terrible, but they are not part of the WFP story.”
Gee, ted, did you study to be a moron or is it God given talent?
Only ’cause, you know, ACORN fucking FOUNDED the WFP.
Comment by Huey on 10/27 @ 5:13 pm #
“Speaking truth to power” has been the motto of McClatchy Newspapers and Broadcasting for a long time. Of course they gave Obama the full knee pad treatment during the last election, but at least he honored them by stealing their motto.
Comment by President Mop on 10/27 @ 5:17 pm #
We just need meya and shitcone to complete the trifecta of stipid on this thread!
Comment by President Mop on 10/27 @ 5:17 pm #
stipid=stupid
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/27 @ 5:18 pm #
Oh, and ted?
My insults are never “tedious”.
They are all well thought out and entertaining.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 5:25 pm #
BMoe – I think that rather than Fox specifically, they see the media as a whole as being more powerful, due likely, in no small part, that their mere existence in their current role is due to the media and the ongoing ad campaign that is Barcky.
Comment by B Moe on 10/27 @ 5:29 pm #
Probably so, JD, but the bigger point is, they have no idea who they are or what they are doing, they are children at the controls of the most powerful nation in the history of the planet and they are completely unaware of it.
The crash is going to be fucking spectacular. May even be worth the pain.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 5:34 pm #
We can only hope, BMoe, we can only hope.
Comment by Team Stoooopid on 10/27 @ 5:37 pm #
Where’s cynn and RD? I didn’t see’em at practice!
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 5:41 pm #
I hereby nominate theodore360 for the Mendoucheous Twatwaffle of the Day award.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 5:42 pm #
Do I hear a second?
Comment by ghost707 on 10/27 @ 5:48 pm #
Now all we need is Republicans to start acting like conservatives again, instead of having conservatives running as a 3rd party while rino’s continue to run with an R next to their name. Running as spoilers against each other will only guarantee dem victories.
Damn, I miss Reagan. That man had a plan.
Comment by Team Stoooopid on 10/27 @ 5:50 pm #
JD, why not nominate it for a Nobel Peace Prize for its future mendoucheous twatwafflery potential, which seems substantial considering its doubling down stupidity on this thread? BTW, second and aye(in case it goes to the floor for a vote).
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 6:16 pm #
I think we will just go with Unanimous Consent. Any opposition?
Comment by Chicago Bears Defense on 10/27 @ 6:24 pm #
Certainly not from us.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 6:31 pm #
Then, by Unanimous Consent, theodore360 is hereby awarded the Mendoucheous Twatwaffle of the Day award. This award is hard to earn, as it takes a level of asshattery and dishonesty so uncommon so as to make it remarkable. Fine work, theodore. Poppa Soros will be proud.
Comment by Carin on 10/27 @ 6:35 pm #
Did I miss some fun, JD?
You know I hate it when you guys beat on a troll w/o me.
Comment by Chicago Bears Defense on 10/27 @ 6:37 pm #
Much as we hate to be contrary, we feel he deserves at least a Month.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 6:39 pm #
Carin – The troll had already taken its beating and fled by the time I dropped back by here. Geoffb and others vivisected it above.
Comment by Chicago Bears Defense on 10/27 @ 6:45 pm #
Step right this way, Mr. Benson!
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 6:46 pm #
Good point. Mendoucheous Twatwaffe of the Month.
Ayes?
Nayes?
By acclimation, the award goes to theodore360.
Comment by Darleen on 10/27 @ 6:52 pm #
Mendoucheous Twatwaffe of the Month
I’m trying to think up an appropriate design for that Major Award…
but everything so far would be NSFW.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 7:02 pm #
Funny, Darleen.
Comment by geoffb on 10/27 @ 7:08 pm #
There is only one true “Major Award”.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/27 @ 7:18 pm #
The little president man won a major award except it was kinda gay everyone thought.
Comment by newrouter on 10/27 @ 7:23 pm #
i hope major garret finds the argula
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/27 @ 7:24 pm #
At least ted earned it.
Comment by newrouter on 10/27 @ 7:24 pm #
beards: very kinky
Comment by Cowboy on 10/27 @ 7:25 pm #
I know I’m late to the thread, but I’d like to pause for just a moment for a slow golf clap for JD’s #29: “douchnozzlery.”
It made me smile at the end of an otherwise semi-worthless day–believe me, that took some doin’.
Well played, sir, well played.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 7:57 pm #
Darleen and serr8d should be able to come up with an excellent photoshop for said award.
Theodore – This is not something to be proud of.
Comment by geoffb on 10/27 @ 8:07 pm #
Just remember ted360 is a collective person.
He will have to stand in and accept for all the Borg.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 11:05 pm #
It just cracks me up how this dishonest troll just fled when he got called on his lies lies lies.
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 11:11 pm #
Sons of Anarchy is such a good show.
Comment by Scrapiron on 10/27 @ 11:23 pm #
Working family party my a**. All I see in ACORN, the SEIU leaders/chiefs, and the working family party are career welfare riders and criminals. Like the current white house there’s not a non-criminal in the bunch.
Comment by Norm on 10/27 @ 11:53 pm #
A little bit OT, but it is about ACORN. What with the all the ACORN offshoots we have heard about, and all those 200+ corporations at one address, I just have to wonder if there’s any connection to this one:
http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/9856.html
That is, if the story is true. That photo has an artificial look. But, IF true, who’s funding that operation, taxpayers?
Comment by SBP on 10/28 @ 3:50 am #
Working family party my a**.
Right, like my observation about the “Socialist Workers” who were on my campus a couple of weeks ago. A more unemployable-looking bunch I’ve never seen.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 10/28 @ 9:44 am #
Are they “Socialist Workers” because they’re unemployable, or are they unemployable because they’re “Socialist Workers”?
A “chicken / egg” conundrum…
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