ACORN Whistle-Blower Headlines Tea Party Meeting

During the 1864 presidential campaign, President Abraham Lincoln was losing the Civil War and expected to lose the election to the peace party. A peace party win would force the Union to negotiate peace with a divided country, North and South.

Historians usually gloss over his, but Lincoln sent former newspaperman Thurlow Weed into northern states like Connecticut with walking around money to encourage rich arms manufacturers to turn the election into the war’s favor by what some historians suspect was coercion of their factory workers.

I mention Lincoln’s brush with election manipulation because it happens on the other side of the aisle too, especially with the current occupant of the White House.

Tonight at the West Texas Training Center, the whistle-blower who exposed ACORN, the faux charity-come-community-organizing-and-vote-manipulating operation, tells her story.

Anita MonCrief is a senior advisor for True the Vote, a Houston-based voter fraud watchdog organization that was founded after the 2010 election where founder Catherine Engelbrecht witnessed what she describes as widespread voter fraud in Houston. The organization was among the many conservative groups that Obama’s IRS refused to recognize, and her husband’s business and their personal finances were audited  she says, because of her founding of True the Vote.

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San Angelo LIVE! will be there covering MonCrief’s talk.  I would say our competitors may cover it too, but DeLoach would probably be more comfortable sending his news team into central Mexico for another brush with greatness than across the Houston-Harte to cover a “Tea Party” meeting.

MonCrief’s talk begins at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, at the West Texas Training Center.