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Nixon-created foundation helps fund ACORN

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Missouri Edition

Nixon-created foundation helps fund ACORN

Via the Hulshof08 news page, we learn that a foundation that Jay Nixon helped to start in order to provide medical care to uninsured Missourians has been granting thousands of dollars to ACORN, a group accused of voter fraud across the United States:

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Columbia, Mo – For the past two years a Jay Nixon-created health care foundation doled out $85,000 to ACORN, the controversial group that is once again embroiled in voter registration controversies in Missouri and other states. The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City’s first board of directors was appointed by Nixon. The current board and advisory committee are comprised of multiple Nixon campaign donors.

The foundation is designated to help uninsured Missourians. In 2006, the foundation gave a $50,000 grant to ACORN.;Last year, ACORN was awarded a $35,000 grant.

ACORN is currently under scrutiny over allegations of voter fraud. Eight ACORN workers in St. Louis pleaded guilty to charges of federal election fraud related to registration cards in the 2006 election.

“Jay Nixon remained silent as grants intended to help uninsured Missourians were directed to a Democrat front group with a sordid history of voter fraud,” said Scott Baker, spokesman for Hulshof. “This shows a lack of leadership by Nixon and a failure to stand up against extreme special interests like ACORN.”

ACORN made news in Missouri in 2006 when 35,000 questionable forms were filed and four ACORN workers were indicted:

Interim U.S. Attorney Bradley Schlozman brought charges in Kansas City against four people less than a week before Election Day. Prosecutors later dropped the charges against one of the defendants, Stephanie Davis. Her identity had been stolen by Carmen Davis; information as to whether the two are related was not available in the four-count indictment dated January 5, 2007. Carmen Davis, who also goes by the name Latisha Reed, was accused of using Stephanie Davis’s Social Security number while employed as a voter registration recruiter for ACORN in August and September of 2006. Ms. Davis/Reed allegedly caused three false registration applications – all in the name of the same person, but with different addresses – to be filed with the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners.

Three other persons accused of offenses during their tenure as ACORN voter activists also are paying the price. Dale Franklin, who pleaded guilty in February to filing false registration forms, received probation only days before Davis entered her guilty plea. Brian Gardner pleaded guilty in March and is awaiting sentencing. And Kwaim A. Stenson is scheduled to go on trial in July.

Stenson pled guilty in May of 2007.

The idea that a foundation created to help with the health care of uninsured Missourians instead spending money in grants to a left wing organization known for voter fraud is disturbing. The fact that Jay Nixon is somehow attached to it should spell trouble for his campaign.

But it won’t. It didn’t for Claire McCaskill.