Topic: WorldNetDaily
Aaron Klein repeats his claim in an Oct. 16 WorldNetDaily article that "Obama's campaign last week falsely claimed ACORN was 'not part of' Project Vote, but the organization's incorporation papers, obtained by WND, show Project Vote is a trademark name whose parent company is registered at the same New Orleans address in which ACORN and multiple ACORN affiliates are housed."
But again, as he did the last time he made it, he does not back up his assertion with any actual evidence that the incorporation papers support his assertion that Project Vote was not part of ACORN in 1992, when Obama worked for the group. That the two share an address now is irrelevant to whether they were closely affiliated in 1992.
Perhaps Klein can post those incorporation papers so we can all have a look.
Indeed, Klein offers no evidence whatsoever that ProjectVote and ACORN were as closely affiliated in 1992 as they are today. He further fails to quote ACORN's own statement on the issue:
In 1992, Obama ran a successful voter registration drive in Chicago for Project Vote which helped 150,000 people register to vote. At that time, Project Vote had no more connection to ACORN than it did with dozens of other national and local organizations with which it partnered on local registration drives. In 1994, over a year after Obama left Project Vote, ACORN and Project Vote began working much more closely together.
Most reporters would consider it to be important to include a statement from ACORN -- Klein doesn't. He's too busy working for the McCain campaign by regurgitating its talking point that ACORN is involved in "numerous, massive voter fraud scandals."
Klein then twists a Obama campaign spokesman that Project Vote and ACORN were not as intertwined in 1992 as they are today by claiming that it "directly contradicts the Obama campaign's 'Fact Check' claim that ACORN was "not part" of Project Vote.
No, it doesn't. The question at hand is not whether ACORN took part in Project Vote activities in 1992 -- both Obama and ACORN have said that took place. The question is whether Project Vote was a subsidiary of ACORN in 1992 in the way Klein repeatedly asserts. Klein offers no evidence to support the claim.
So Klein is lying again about Obama -- nothing new for him.
