ACORN employees across the country have been indicted for voter fraud, and by its own admission, the group has submitted at least 400,000 questionable voter documents, according to a New York Times report dated Oct. 24, 2008.
Now two whistle-blowers, Anita MonCrief and Marcel Reid, who used to work for ACORN have testified under oath before the House Judiciary Committee that the organization took money to intimidate capitalist organizations like the Carlyle Group and H&R Block, and worked closely with the Obama presidential campaign to get voters to the polls.
It is here where the story begins to rise to the next level.
According to MonCrief, New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom was getting close to documenting a story directly linking the Obama campaign to ACORN through the “Project Vote” organization. There is speculation that “Project Vote” did a number of illegal things last November during the voter-registration process. Strom was allegedly zeroing in on the situation.
But the Times’ investigation suddenly stopped dead, prompting a call from Strom to MonCrief, her source. A voicemail from Strom was left on Oct. 21, 2008:
“Hi, Anita, it’s Stephanie. I’ve just been asked by my bosses to stand down. ... They want me to hold off on coming to Washington. Sorry, I take my orders from higher up.”
The motto of The New York Times is “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” “Standing down” on a story with presidential implications does not seem to fit that motto.
Or am I wrong?
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