Death threat, vandalism hit ACORN after McCain comments

[cynatnite]

WASHINGTON — An ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal activist group's Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized Thursday, reflecting mounting tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans to vote next month.

Attorneys for the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now were notifying the FBI and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division of the incidents, said Brian Kettenring, a Florida-based spokesman for the group.

Republicans, including presidential candidate John McCain, have verbally attacked the group repeatedly in recent days, alleging a widespread vote-fraud scheme, although they've provided little proof. It was disclosed Thursday that the FBI is examining whether thousands of fraudulent voter-registration applications submitted by some ACORN workers were part of a systematic effort or isolated incidents.

Kettenring said that a senior ACORN staffer in Cleveland, after appearing on television this week, got an e-mail that said she "is going to have her life ended."

A female staffer in Providence, R.I., got a threatening call from someone who said words to the effect of "We know you get off work at 9," then uttered racial epithets, he said.

snip:
The incidents came the day after McCain charged in the final presidential debate that ACORN's voter-registration drive "may be perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history" and may be "destroying the fabric of democracy."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/54360.html

[LaurenG]

1. I hold the media and John McCain accountable. McCain LIES and the media lets him slide

He is bully and not presidential material in any way.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. -

[WCGreen]

5. But hs isn't at a rally for a major politcal party nor does it look as if

he is aligned with any politcal party.

That is different.

And there is no message of hate against an individual.

[WCGreen]

3. Maybe now the media will take a real look at what ACORN is all about....

What does it take?

One of these McCainiacs to kill somebody before they wake up and see just how awful their message of divisive hate truly is?

Sarah Palin should come right out and refute the people she is driving right of the cliff with her hateful rhetoric.

She is inciting people to violence against her fellow citizens.

If that is her purpose, then may she will go down in History with McCarthy, Father Coughlin and all the other hate mongers in our checkered history.

[VeraAgnes]

4. They figure there will be less votes for Obama now.

Voter intimidation, loss of life/limb or property seems to be in McCain playbook to win at all cost.

ACORN needs to share evidence with media as well as law officials.

[crankychatter]

6. Palin's "krystalnacht" - NT

[FLyellowdog]

7. McCain makes Cheney and Rove look like ___________

fill in the blank yourself.

[progressivebydesign]

8. Hope the repukes are happy.. they have unleased the brownshirts.

How that smug little asshole could sit there laughing last night at Obama's jokes, which where born of the egrecious attacks against him, is beyond me.

I thought Bush and Co. were filthy -- McCain is living up to his high school moniker.. "McNasty."

The repukes are setting up to CHALLENGE the results, no matter what! Those fuckers will NOT accept an Obama victory. McCain is the worst person in politics.. mean, vindictive, hateful, and ugly.