Defend ACORN! Defend community organizers!
Now we know just how much the Republican Party really hates community organizers. After the Republican National Convention, where the term was thrown around with much contempt, the McCain campaign appeared to get off it for a while. Efforts from the Right to subvert voter registration drives or, as in Michigan, to find ways to deprive registered voters of their ability to cast a ballot (Republicans there advanced the theory that people who had been evicted from their homes as a result of mortgage foreclosures should be barred from voting because they no longer lived at their old addresses) continued unabated. But for a while at least we were spared the smirking disgust with which people like Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani would utter the term “community organizer” as if they were talking about pornographers or racketeers.Now their culture war on community organizations that serve poor and working class communities has bubbled back to the surface in the form of a Nevada raid against the offices of the community group ACORN. [continued at Two Good Hands]
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I can't believe that, with the ferocity of the disenfranchisement efforts that have been taking place in every presidential election for the past 3 cycles, the media finds time for analyzing the significance of Sarah Palin's unsexy hairdo and not this.
Well, I can, but still. I guess Jamal Six-Pack doesn't matter though, right?
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