ACORN is sooooo busted!

If you’re in Missouri, you know that the Democrats have a nice political machine going on over there in St. Louis. One of the big cogs in that machine is a group called ACORN. This group represents on its donation page as being a “charitable organization” but is in actuality a partisan political action organization. (OK, the national ACORN is a partisan outfit, but state ACORN chapters are technically non-partisan–and if you believe that’s how it really works, you’ll believe almost anything as long as it has “Bush Lied” attached to it. Which, sadly, seems to describe a large, vocal, and influential segment of Americans today.)

St. Louis’ Gateway Pundit links to a Democratic-leaning St. Louis blog, Pub Def[*1] , which is tearing the cover back on ACORN’s shady dealings. The deal: hire lower-income people to go out and shake the trees for Claire McCaskill votes.

Note to Democrats: This works a lot better if you actually pay those folks you hire to do your dubious Get-Out-The-Vote effort.

One big question: What are the links between ACORN, the Missouri Democratic Party, and the Claire McCaskill U.S. Senate campaign? Click on this link to see the Pub Def video[*2] , showing the unpaid ACORN workers saying that their get-out-the-vote campaign was called Project Victory 2006. As both Pub Def and Gateway Pundit note, this is (oddly enough) the same name under which the Missouri Democratic Party[*3] is running it’s “coordinated campaign effort:”

We are pleased to introduce Project Victory 2006, the MissouriDemocratic Party’s coordinated campaign effort for this election year!We are excited about this year’s campaign and expect that our fieldeffort will be incredibly strong and well-received. We are proud thatmore than 75 percent of the Project Victory’s staff members either arefrom Missouri or attended college in Missouri, and we expect this to bea tremendous asset.

There’s coordination, and then there’s Democratic coordination, which apparently includes not paying poor people that you’ve hired (by a “non-partisan” front group for a radically partisan national organization) to pound on doors campaigning for your candidates.

You can pick what part of this scandal offends you more–non-partisan groups engaged in blatant partisan political behavior, or the spectacle of Democrats telling poor people to get out the Democrat vote for money, and then stiffing them.

Oh, right, Mark Foley was a gay pedophile-wanna-be. Never mind. Meanwhile, how are those sweetheart real estate deals going, Senator Reid?[*4]

If you’re bound and determined to vote against the Republicans, you really should open your eyes to who you’ll be voting FOR.