Kevin Mooney
Breitbart.com
Big Government
6/7/2012
Mitt Romney’s lead over President Barack Obama in the states most likely to decide the presidential election could diminish over the next few weeks if left wing pressure groups work successfully to block ballot integrity efforts. Catherine Engelbrecht, president and founder of “True the Vote,” is blunt. She warns that 2012 could mark the end of free and fair elections in America…
…While media attention continues to focus on Project Vote, and its history with ACORN, it is the Advancement Project that is now the lead player in the assault against voter fraud probes and photo identification requirements…
…Founded in 1999, by civil rights attorneys, The Advancement Project describes itself as “a policy, communications and legal action group committed to racial justice.” It has offices in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. The group’s board of directors includes activist and singer Harry Belafonte, SEIU vice-president Gerry Hudson, and Bill Lann Lee, former assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Clinton administration. Lee is currently co-director of the NAACP Los Angeles office…
…Anita MonCrief, an ACORN whistleblower turned conservative activist, expects the Advancement Project to assume a large profile for itself during the 2012 elections.
“The reason is obvious,” she said. “Anything Project Vote does backs up into ACORN and the Advancement Project is not as well known.”
The Advancement Project also benefits financially from George Soros-funded foundations, and politically, from President Obama’s Justice Department, which refuses to enforce the federal law against voter fraud.
Two foundations established by George Soros direct major funding to the Advancement Project. The Open Society Institute has made grants totaling $3,925,000 since 1999 and the Foundation to Promote Open Society has given it $552,775 since 2009, according to the Capital Research Center (CRC)…
Read the complete article at Breitbart’s Big Government.
Also, Shock: Romney Fundraising Blows Past Obama
Obama’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week continues. This morning, the Obama campaign announced that it and the DNC had raised a whopping $60 million in May, outpacing their disappointment numbers in April. Hours later, though, the Romney campaign and RNC announced they had raised a staggering $76 million in May, blowing past Obama’s haul…
Update: From Judicial Watch: Former ACORN Director Gets $445 Million From U.S. Treasury
The Obama Administration has given a former director at the scandal-plagued Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) nearly half a billion dollars to offer “struggling” Illinois homeowners mortgage assistance, a Judicial Watch investigation has found.
It means the ACORN official (Joe McGavin) will go from operating a corrupt leftist community group that’s banned by Congress from receiving federal funding to controlling over $445 million in U.S. taxpayer funds. The money is part of a $7.6 billion Treasury Department program to help the “unemployed or substantially underemployed” make their mortgage payments…
