SOME SANE REPUBLICANS ON ACORN

Not all of the GOP succumbs to talk radio hysteria, unlike McCain and Palin.

Canvassers, not ACORN, at fault
By GREGORY ROBERTS
SEATTLE P-I REPORTER
Last updated October 17, 2008 11:24 p.m. PT

King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, a Republican, said last year that the ACORN case in Seattle had nothing to do with manipulating outcomes and everything to do with the workers' efforts to keep their $8-an-hour jobs. If anyone was defrauded, it was ACORN, an acronym for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

"The defendants ... cheated their employers to get paid for work they did not actually perform," Satterberg said. "The defendants simply realized that making up names was easier than actually canvassing the streets."

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In Florida, for instance, GOP Gov. Charlie Crist said, ''I think that there's probably less [fraud] than is being discussed. As we're coming into the closing days of any campaign, there are some who enjoy chaos."

Florida's Republican Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, said ACORN isn't committing systematic voter fraud, in his view, as reported in the Miami Herald.