N.Y. Times Killed Game-Changer Story Between Obama And ACORN
During the presidential campaign, stories linking Obama and the radical Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) sporadically popped up but went largely uncovered by the mainstream media.
Most sources seemed to agree that Obama represented ACORN in 1995 lawsuit against the state of Illinois. However stories that tied Obama to ACORN before 1995 or training ACORN never received any serious media coverage. Nor did stories that Obama giving ACORN $800,000 for get-out-the-vote efforts after ACORN endorsed him for the presidency merit much scrutiny. It appeared that Obama’s own words were sufficient enough to discredit any further investigation of the allegations.
Now we have another story by the Bulletin to add to the Obama and ACORN chronicles.
Heather Heidelbaugh, who represented the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee in the lawsuit against the group, recounted for the ommittee what she had been told by a former ACORN worker who had worked in the group’s Washington, D.C. office. The former worker, Anita Moncrief, told Ms. Heidelbaugh last October, during the state committee’s litigation against ACORN, she had been a “confidential informant for several months to The New York Times reporter, Stephanie Strom.”
Ms. Moncrief had been providing Ms. Strom with information about ACORN’s election activities. Ms. Strom had written several stories based on information Ms. Moncrief had given her.
During her testimony, Ms. Heidelbaugh said Ms. Moncrief had told her The New York Times articles stopped when she revealed that the Obama presidential campaign had sent its maxed-out donor list to ACORN’s Washington, D.C. office.
Ms. Moncrief told Ms. Heidelbaugh the campaign had asked her and her boss to “reach out to the maxed-out donors and solicit donations from them for Get Out the Vote efforts to be run by ACORN.”
Ms. Heidelbaugh then told the congressional panel:
“Upon learning this information and receiving the list of donors from the Obama campaign, Ms. Strom reported to Ms. Moncrief that her editors at The New York Times wanted her to kill the story because, and I quote, “it was a game changer.”‘
Ms. Moncrief made her first overture to Ms. Heidelbaugh after The New York Times allegedly spiked the story - on Oct. 21, 2008. Last fall, she testified under oath about what she had learned about ACORN from her years in its Washington, D.C. office. Although she was present at the congressional hearing, she did not testify.
U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisc., the ranking Republican on the committee, said the interactions between the Obama campaign and ACORN, as described by Ms. Moncrief, and attested to before the committee by Ms. Heidelbaugh, could possibly violate federal election law, and “ACORN has a pattern of getting in trouble for violating federal election laws.”
Even with ACORN’s history of voter fraud, they still managed to secure a place in the 2010 Census. Game on!
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