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March 14, 2010

By JoAnne Viviano

Associated Press

COLUMBUS -- The community organizing group ACORN is not expressly prohibited from returning to Ohio under a settlement reached in a lawsuit that claimed it used fraudulent voter registration practices.

But a lawyer for a libertarian group that filed the lawsuit on behalf of two voters said Saturday that it would fight in court any attempt by ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- to reopen its doors in Ohio for voter registration purposes.

A copy of the confidential settlement obtained by The Associated Press shows that ACORN has agreed to refrain in Ohio from supporting or enabling others "to engage in the type of unlawful conduct alleged" in the lawsuit.

ACORN also has agreed to surrender its Ohio business license and has already ceased operations in Ohio, "for reasons unrelated" to the lawsuit, the agreement says.

ACORN has denied that it engaged in wrongdoing and has called the original suit baseless and a form of harassment.

In a statement, ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan refuted the claim that the group could not re-emerge in Ohio and accused the law center of a "concerted voter suppression campaign."

Whelan said Ohio members of ACORN brought hundreds of thousands of voters to the polls in 2004, 2006, and 2008.




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    Posted by Kent Sheetz March 15, 2010
The Republican Party, beginning with the many crimes and cover ups of Richard M. Nixon and his thugs and continuing through the Reagan guns for hostages fraud, the George W. Bush kickbacks for wealthy Republicans, pay-for-play (Jack Abramoff), human rights violations (Dick Cheney), criminal political payback (Scooter Libby), criminal ethics violations (Bob Taft), drug smuggling (Rush Limbaugh), and fraud, slander, and tampering (James O'Keefe III, FOX News, and the New Orleans Four), practices organized crime and must be kept out of Ohio.

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    Posted by AMT March 15, 2010
ACORN is organized crime and must be kept out of Ohio.

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