Guess who’s involved? You get three guesses!
It would take me a nanosecond to guess correctly. Unfortunately, the typical Boulderites would probably need all three guesses!
Yep, that would be ACORN. For the uninformed, that translates to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
A voter registration drive last year illegally required canvassers to meet quotas to keep their jobs and resulted in thousands of “garbage” registrations gumming up Clark County voter rolls, officials said Monday as they released a criminal complaint against the drive’s organizers.
Pay for performance was going on, with the threat of losing their jobs…
ACORN’s canvassers, she said, had to gather at least 20 voter registrations a day to keep their jobs. There was also a bonus program, known as “blackjack” or “21 plus,” which rewarded employees with $5 extra per shift if they brought in 21 or more completed registrations.
Why target the organization…
The organization is being targeted, she added, because it shouldn’t “hide behind or place blame on its employees” when the group’s policies required “illegal acts in performing the job.”
Congratulations to the Nevada attorney general.
And of course, ACORN objects, with the “woe is me” defense. An intelligent person might wonder who set up this toxic environment. Not ACORN…
Scott Levenson, an ACORN spokesman, said the group cooperated in the investigation and that charging the organization is “frightfully absurd.”
“We’re a bit appalled at the political grandstanding on the part of the attorney general’s office,” he said. “This individual case is truly a situation where, the organization that was most harmed is the organization that is being charged.”
To think there are people in our goverment that want these jokers involved in the Census. It truly boggles the mind!
