Death threat, vandalism hit ACORN after McCain comments

Death threat, vandalism hit ACORN after McCain comments

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers


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 ACORN — short 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 attacked the group repeatedly in recent days, alleging a widespread vote-fraud scheme, although they have 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 were merely isolated incidents.

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

A woman staffer in Providence, R.I., also got a threatening call from someone who said words to the effect that "we know you get off work at nine," and then made racial epithets, he said.

McClatchy is withholding both of the women's names because of the threats.

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How are you going to feel when someone DIES because of your hate?

Although there was never a REPORTED link between his assassin and right-wing hate speech (although the contents of the assassin's computer hard drive were never released), it still BEGS the question; WHY did Tim Johnson target the head of the Arkansas Democratic Party?!?


William "Bill" Gwatney
August 26, 1959 - August 13, 2008