WHEN RADICALS COME KNOCKING

FRANKSMITHSAYSNB EDITORIAL:

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The release of campaign finance documents by Representative Tim O'Brien, as reported recently in The Herald, show some very disturbing issues about his campaign for Mayor (Mayoral candidates release financial documents, by James Craven, October 14, 2009).

The most alarming revelation is that Representative O'Brien reports a campaign expense of $6,250.00 to an ACORN affiliate--Citizens Services, Inc.--the same ACORN affiliate that President Obama's presidential campaign paid over $800,000 to. In attempting to investigate the payment, reporter James Craven reports that he found no phone listings for Citizens Services, Inc. in Hartford, but was astute enough to suspect they were affiliated with another ACORN front group--The Working Families Party, so Mr. Craven reportedly called the Hartford office of the Working Families Party which shares the same offices as the Hartford office of ACORN.

The article quoted John Green, Director of Working Families Party as saying "Citizens Services, Inc., is the staffing firm that employs folks who work at Working Families. It's a consulting firm...that assigns people to work on mostly progressive campaigns."

To make this statement by Green very clear, the Wikipedia definition of "Progressivism" as it relates to U.S. politics is:"an alternative to the traditional conservative response to social and economic issues and to the various more radical streams of socialism and anarchism which opposed them."

To give you more insight into Citizen Services, Inc, I have included the following from an August 15 article which appeared on noquarterusa.net:

"Irrefutable evidence indicates that Obama’s campaign has been doing business with CSI, which appears to have been operating fraudulently in the State of Maryland and Ohio, and ACORN, which has been associated with a laundry list of fraudulent business practices. The full nature of the relationship between ACORN and Citizens Services Inc is not known but this much is clear: both share the same address in
New Orleans and officials with CSI refer folks to ACORN for questions about “political consulting” and “Get-Out-The-Vote” activities. These are questions that mainstream media should examine."

Voters need to be very suspicious of any candidate who's campaign is making such sizable payments to such a radical organization and perhaps Connecticut officials need to look into these arrangements as well.

The report raises many more questions about Representative O'Brien and his possible motives as well. While the re-election campaign of Mayor Tim Stewart has not accepted any donations from PACS, according to the Herald Article, Representative O'Brien received much of his funding from PACS, unions and other organizations, all but one from outside New Britain and from as far away as New York!

What could these organizations, including a labor union that reportedly donated $1,500, hope to accomplish once Representative O'Brien was elected? Democratic Town Committee Chairman John McNamara is even quoted as saying that he is "encouraged by the broad-based support" Representative O'Brien is receiving, but he fails to tell us that many of these people are actually being paid for their work, through payments to Citizen Services, Inc. So when you see that campaign worker knocking on doors for the O'Brien Campaign, remember that they most likely are working for ACORN or one of its affiliates, and consider the quote from ACORN Executive Director and WFP co-founder Bertha Lewis: "Candidates know that when they’re on our line, they’re committed to certain things,” explains Bertha Lewis, who moonlights as WFP co-chair and New York ACORN executive director. Speaking days before Hillary won her Senate seat in 2000, Lewis noted, “Hillary knows that if she wins, we’re going to be knockin’ on her door. She won’t be able to hide.”

Just ask yourself one question: what does each of these groups expect to receive when they knock on the door of the Mayor's office in an O'Brien administration?