Missouri GOP obtains documents exposing cozy relationship between Robin Carnahan and ACORN

The Missouri Republican Party today launched a new web video and website—www.acorncarnahan.com—after obtaining documents that clearly show a close relationship between Robin Carnahan and ACORN.

Despite more than a dozen convictions in Missouri, the submission of tens of thousands of questionable or false voter registration forms, and shocking videos that show the group promoting criminal activities, Robin Carnahan has had ample opportunity to distance herself from ACORN. But during her five years as the state’s highest ranking elections official, Carnahan has never condemned the embattled liberal group.

Although Robin Carnahan has remained silent, the communication between her office and ACORN speaks loud and clear. From meetings in her office, to events, to research, documents obtained by the Missouri Republican Party make it clear that Robin Carnahan and ACORN are too close for comfort.

Among the more than 1,400 pages of documents were startling examples of Carnahan’s friendly relationship with ACORN. A few examples:

• Michael Slater (Project Vote Executive Director) to Ron Berry (SOS Political Director), 3/15/2007: “We very much appreciate having the ability to share information with y’all.” (view)
• Michael Slater to Mindy Mazur (SOS Chief of Staff) and Ron Berry, 3/21/2007: “I have a very quick research question… I presume Republicans beat the drum of voter fraud as a rationale for the photo ID law, can you steer me to a source to find a quote providing an example of that?”

  Mindy Mazur responds to Michael Slater, 3/21/2007: “There’s one from last year on ‘perception’… ill (sic) see if I can find it.”

  Mindy Mazur responds to Michael Slater, 3/21/2007: “I have a few others too… will send shortly.” (view all)

• Jeff Ordower (Head organizer for ACORN) to Ron Berry, 10/2/2008: “Again, we’ll do an event whenever Robin can make it to St. Louis, though book closing date is best.” (view)
• Jeff Ordower to Carnahan staff and others after the defeat of the photo id legislation in the Missouri General Assembly, 5/17/2008: “This was a great team effort. Thanks everyone for your help.” (view )

Over the years, Carnahan has maintained close ties with ACORN—furthering their goals and whitewashing the record of corruption and fraud.

In 2006, Carnahan ordered the St. Louis Board of Elections to approve more than 5,000 questionable registrations submitted by ACORN. Earlier this year, she issued a report on the 2008 elections, yet she failed to mention ACORN’s organized effort to commit voter fraud across the state by submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registrations to county election boards in Missouri. ACORN even claimed that Carnahan had been “helpful” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 24, 2008) in its lawsuit against the state of Missouri—a lawsuit that ended after the state agreed to pay ACORN $450,000.

Now, ACORN is repaying the favor as part of a liberal coalition funding false attack ads to benefit her campaign for U.S. Senate.

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Missouri Republican Party Chairman David Cole’s Message is Good News for Conservatives

Across the state, Missouri Republicans are on the ascendancy. Following the national trend, we are out-recruiting, out-fundraising, and out-messaging a Democratic Party that controls the White House and boasts super-majorities in Congress. More importantly, we are winning the national debate because we have effectively taken our fight to the local and state levels.

In the St Louis area, several prominent Republicans, including former Senators Norm Coleman (MN) and Jim Talent and Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder turned out this week in support of Ed Martin, who has formed an exploratory committee to challenge Russ Carnahan.

In western Missouri, two strong Republican candidates—Bill Stouffer and Vicky Hartzler—have announced their intention to run for the 4th Congressional seat, and others have expressed interest. One of these Republicans will face Ike Skelton, a long-time Congressman whose recent hard-left voting record and alliance with Nancy Pelosi puts him at odds with the people of his own district.

Roy Blunt , one of the candidates who is seeking to replace retiring GOP Senator Kit Bond, also received some good news this week. Despite a relentless barrage of false attacks from his likely opponent Robin Carnahan and her liberal allies, a recent Rasmussen poll shows the race tied. The poll also shows Missourians frustrated with the direction of the country and supportive of Roy Blunt’s conservative positions on the issues.

This is happening because Missourians understand what is at stake—and we are not willing to turn our lives and livelihoods over to the federal government. By presenting common-sense solutions and demonstrating responsible governance, Republicans are taking our country back.

Last weekend, presumed Democrat candidate for US Senate, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, attempted to dodge the question of whether she would have voted for the  extravagantly wasteful “stimulus” bill as ALL DEMOCRAT SENATORS DID: “I don’t think it was an option to do nothing,” Carnahan said. “People who kept saying no to everything … don’t have a lot of credibility on this stuff.” “I don’t know everything that was in that package,” she said, adding that “something had to be done, and it had to be done quickly.”

MCV-PAC ran the figures, and legislators would have had to read 640 words per minute (that’s almost 2 pages) to know everything that was in the 1071-page stimulus bill within the 10 hours before they had to vote.MCV-PAC wonders, as all responsible Missourians do, whether doing something is better than doing nothing when you admittedly don’t know what you are doing. So, what kind of credibility do Carnahan, Senator McCaskill, or the rest of the Democrat Senate actually have? Can we trust Carnahan to represent OUR best interests when she wouldn’t even bother to slow down the process, preferring to just doing the “something” that was presented by San Francisco and Las Vegas liberals Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.