ACORN raid politically motivated (imagine that!)

And in other news: the sun is hot and snow is cold.

During the election, the right-wing thought cops had a hard-on against ACORN. It was a bogus story, of course, but the story was fed by the media.

Just before the election, an ACORN office in Nevada was raided by federal agents. The official reasons for this raid stemmed from allegations of voter registration fraud.

The unofficial reason though was a different matter. Based on the timing of the raid, it was plainly obvious that it was politically motivated.

Last fall, we kept hearing about ACORN and election fraud, but no evidence was ever found that ACORN had committed any such fraud. As a dirty tricks operation, Republican operatives in the Cleveland area had tried to submit phony voter registrations through ACORN, but ACORN caught them early.

Now Nevada officials report that the raid in that state was instigated by a U.S. attorney appointed by Bush and by the FBI. This despite the fact that the U.S. attorney - Gregory Brower - previously claimed no involvement by either the FBI or his own office.

Federal rules require agencies that investigate alleged election fraud avoid action that impacts upcoming elections. But in this case, agencies ignored these rules.

But this is a pattern. Back in 2006, a U.S. attorney for Missouri announced the indictments of 4 former ACORN workers on voter registration fraud charges only 5 days before the election. These charges were also bogus, and lawmakers later blasted the U.S. attorney's office in that case.

As for Brower, it turns out he was appointed by Bush to replace the U.S. attorney for Nevada that the Bush regime had fired in its round of politically motivated firings. The firing scandal is now under official investigation.

Many of the firings had resulted when the attorneys refused to prosecute the Bush regime's ongoing claims of voter fraud.

Under Bush, everything was about pursuing an agenda. There was no limit to how irrational or arrogant the regime's methods were.

(Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/NV_State_Officials_say_feds_involved_0316.html)