SFRA Chairman says - Report ACORN

S.F. CHRONICLE Editor “Inside glorious nation of ACORN.” (Sept 17) Debra Saunders has done for 400,000 readers of the Chronicle what its political reporters are not doing: Readers deserve to know ACORN is a non profit tax exempt organization now under investigation in 14 states for voter registration fraud and political activities in the 2008 presidential campaign. The IRS has filed three tax liens of almost $1 million against ACORN. The Obama campaign has reported paying $832,000 for get-out-the-vote efforts to an ACORN affiliate, Citizens Consulting Inc., but filed the payments with the Federal Election Commission as 'staging, sound, lighting.' It corrected the false filings only after being exposed. Ms. Saunders has reminded readers that both California Senators Feinstein and Boxer have joined in an 83-7 vote to prohibit granting federal housing funds to ACORN, and the U.S Census Bureau has terminated its partnership agreement with ACORN. Governor Schwarzenegger and the California Republican Party has urged the Secretary of State Bowen to conduct an investigation of voter registration activities by ACORN or its representatives. This issue deserves daily attention by the political staff of the San Francisco Chronicle. Mike DeNunzio CHAIRMAN S.F. REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY The Conscience of the Republican Party