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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b style="">Anita Moncrief</b>&nbsp;is a former employee of&nbsp;<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/ACORN" title="ACORN" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">ACORN</a>&nbsp;who testified against the organization for two hours on October 29</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> in a Pennsylvania courtroom in a lawsuit filed by the Pennsylvania Republican Party against ACORN and Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-Former_ACORN_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_note-Former_ACORN-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fired_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_note-fired-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>According to Moncrief's testimony:</b></font></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" bullet-icon.png="bullet-icon.png"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ACORN's quality-control efforts were "minimal or nonexistent."</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The quality control policies of ACORN were "largely window dressing."</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ACORN knew that most new voter registration forms it had gathered were fraudulent. According to Moncrief, "Forty percent was OK," referring to the number of bona fide registrations the group was willing to receive from workers in its<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_registration_drive" title="Voter registration drive" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">voter registration drives</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[3]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">When she was employed by the organization, it was given lists of potential donors by several Democratic presidential campaigns, including that of Barack Obama.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She said that in November of 2007, ACORN's Project Vote development director&nbsp;<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Karyn_Gillette" title="Karyn Gillette" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Karyn Gillette</a>&nbsp;told her that Gillette had direct contact with the Obama campaign and had obtained their donor lists. Ms. MonCrief also testified she was given a spreadsheet to use in cultivating Obama donors who had maxed out on donations to the candidate, but who could contribute to voter registration efforts.&nbsp;<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Project_Vote" title="Project Vote" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Project Vote</a>&nbsp;calls the allegation "absolutely false."<sup id="cite_ref-Former_ACORN_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_note-Former_ACORN-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[1]</a></sup>.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Internally, ACORN had a policy of cooperating with authorities in prosecuting those who got caught trying to falsify registration forms, which was referred to by staffers as "throwing them under the bus."<sup id="cite_ref-fired_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_note-fired-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[2]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Moncrief.27s_background"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Moncrief's background</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Moncrief attended the <b>University of Alabama</b>, majoring in political science and history. She was a founding member of the Alabama Model United Nations, and an <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">intern for the&nbsp;<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/American_Bar_Association" title="American Bar Association" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Bar Association</a></span>, where she assisted in the creation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Assessment Index.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">MonCrief's employment with ACORN began in October 2005. She was fired by ACORN in January 2008 for using a&nbsp;<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Project_Vote" title="Project Vote" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Project Vote</a>&nbsp;credit card to pay for personal items.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Recent_news"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Recent news</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This section displays the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms&nbsp;<b>Anita&nbsp;MonCrief.</b></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="">Some of the stories below may not be relevant to this page due to the nature of Google's news search engine.</font></dd></dl><div class="rss-feed"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=Anita+MonCrief&um=1&ie=UTF-8" style="text-decoration: none; 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line-height: 1.5em;" /></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">See also</font></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" bullet-icon.png="bullet-icon.png"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/ACORN" title="ACORN" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">ACORN</font></a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Footnotes"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Footnotes</font></span></h2><div class="references-small" style="max-height: 20em; padding: 10px; overflow: auto;"><div class="mobile-columns"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-Former_ACORN-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;">↑&nbsp;<sup style="line-height: 1;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_ref-Former_ACORN_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">1.0</a></sup>&nbsp;<sup style="line-height: 1;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_ref-Former_ACORN_1-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">1.1</a></sup></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533169940482893.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url("");" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">"Wall Street Journal," ACORN Whistleblower Testifies, October 30, 2008</a></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-fired-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;">↑&nbsp;<sup style="line-height: 1;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_ref-fired_2-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2.0</a></sup>&nbsp;<sup style="line-height: 1;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_ref-fired_2-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2.1</a></sup></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20081029_ap_firedwomanacorntrainingforcanvassersweak.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url("");" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i>, "Fired woman: ACORN training for canvassers weak," October 29, 2008</a>&nbsp;<i>(<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Dead_link" title="Dead link" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">dead link</a>)</i></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20081030/NEWS/810300397/1033/news?Title=ACORN_strikes_back" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url("");" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><i>Press Democrat</i>, "ACORN strikes back"</a>&nbsp;<i>(<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Dead_link" title="Dead link" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">dead link</a>)</i></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_212182375.shtml" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url("");" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><i>Post Chronicle</i>, "Why Obama and Acorn fear Anita Moncrief"</a></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anita_MonCrief#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://www.kansascity.com/445/story/865448.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url("");" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><i>Kansas Star</i>, "ACORN knew of fraudulent voter registration forms, ex-employee of Project Vote says," October 29, 2008</a>&nbsp;<i>(<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Dead_link" title="Dead link" style="text-decoration: none; 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ginni groundswell working group: jan 2013</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12. NEED WORKING GROUPS for division of labor for 30 front war (Ginni to seek out/discuss); seek volunteer leaders or team-players on various</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>fronts. Expectation: Teams should connect once a week before Groundswell meeting.</div><div>1. Guns: Michael James Barton, Gayle Trotter, Rick Manning</div><div>2. Messaging:&nbsp;<b>Dan Bongino,&nbsp;</b>Cherylyn Harley LeBon, Alex Cortes<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">,<b>&nbsp;Anita MonCrief</b></span></div><div>3. Groundgame: Peter List</div><div>4. Getting on Offense<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: Anita MonCrief</span></div><div>5. Alternative to Rove: Sandy Rios</div><div>6. National Security lane - Frank Gaffney</div><div>7. Energy and Environment lane – Myron Ebell</div><div>8. UN lane - Austin Ruse</div><div>
</div><div>9.<b>&nbsp;Shadow Govt teams: Tom Fitton</b>, Mike Farris, Heritage?</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">10<b>. Benghazi&nbsp;</b>– Boykin,&nbsp;<b>Thomas,&nbsp;</b>Fitton</span></div><div>11. Others needed: Immigration,</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">LEE STRANAHAN</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2 Jan 2016</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3,455</font></div><div><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></b></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Breitbart</span> News has given #BlackLivesMatter more detailed, deep, and honest coverage than any other media outlet on the planet in 2015, and for good reason.</b> From covering every major protest they did to exposing the cop killer that the group worships to revealing the secret funder behind the movement to Milo Yiannopoulos’s complete shredding of activist Shaun King, Breitbart News has been the go-to source for original reporting on Black Lives Matter.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Why is Breitbart News so on top of the Black Lives Matter movement?</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Easy. We saw it coming.</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Not everyone liked what we saw either. In August 2012, the magazine American Conservative did an article on the film Occupy Unmasked.</span> That film was directed by Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon and featured people like Andrew Breitbart, Brandon Darby, and myself exposing the Occupy Wall Street movement for what it was — a socialist, Obama-inspired activist movement. We pointed out that Occupy was the latest incarnation of the far-left, anti-American protest movements that dates back to the 1960s’ Students for a Democratic Society and Black Panthers.<b> We also said that the next step in the evolution of Occupy Wall Street would be race-based.</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">American Conservative took the film to task for using the term “race war” to describe what we saw as the next phase of the Occupy movement. Remember, Occupy Unmasked came out about a year before three self-described queer black women started Black Lives Matter in July 2013. In 2012, Anita MonCrief was mocked by American Conservative when she defended her use of the term “race war” in Occupy Unmasked by saying:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>But seriously, that’s why you have Barack Obama out there saying if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin. … they want black people running around in hoodies protesting in the streets. That’s what he’s looking for. … He wants us divided, and he wants us to fight in the streets, so they can basically keep us down.</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">MonCrief said this two years before the hoodie-wearing thugs burned down Ferguson, before they looted and set fire to Baltimore, before they shut down Bernie Sanders at NetRoots nation, and before they shut down Chicago’s “Magnificent Mile” on the busiest shopping day of the year.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The assertion that Occupy Wall Street would morph into Black Lives Matter wasn’t a lucky guess. MonCrief, Darby, and I <b>are all former leftists with professional organizational experience</b>.</span> Anita was a whistleblower who worked for ACORN, Darby was a cofounder of Common Ground in New Orleans, and I did work for MoveOn.org and Brave New Films. Because we understand the tactics and the players, it was clear to us that the Occupy movement and its focus on class had failed to resonate with a large enough segment of the American people. We knew that the logical next step was to head back to the 1960s’ playbook of trying to tear down America by creating as deep a racial rift as possible.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">With Barack Obama in the White House and Eric Holder running the Department of Justice, the stage was set for the next iteration of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Black Lives Matter was the new Occupy.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">We also saw that community organizers were working on developing a new movement based on young black people in the wake of George Zimmerman’s not guilty verdict in the Trayvon Martin shooting case. As I wrote at Breitbart News in July 2013, the takeover of the Florida statehouse by the group Dream Defenders was a “magnet for young people. The long-term goal is straightforward and explicit: the 2014 vote. Once in the Capitol, the Dream Defenders are giving the enthusiastic participants organizer training, right in the governor’s office.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>With two generations of educators, media, and legal experts all schooled in New Left political correctness by America’s leading universities,</b> the Black Lives Matter movement has been essentially immune to criticism. The result has left universities, businesses, and police departments defenseless — intellectually and physically — against Black Lives Matter.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There’s been a practical cost as well. We’ve seen businesses burned to the ground in Ferguson and Baltimore. We’ve seen other businesses shut down at the Mall of America and on Chicago’s “Magnificent Mile.”<b> We’ve seen the murder rate spike in cities across the country as a result of the “Ferguson Effect” </b>that has caused police officers to pull back from enforcing the law in the face of unrelenting hostility and scrutiny.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>We’ve seen universities from coast-to-coast bullied into staff firings and policy changes that were meant to only aid black students</b>. These college uprisings have been accompanied by a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> fierce hatred of free speech;</span> and when combined with the bold aggressiveness of multicultural and feminist Social Justice Warriors, they’ve created an educational environment that is openly hostile to white students and faculty.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">With the next presidential election only 11 months away, conservatives and Republicans would be making a huge mistake to ignore the Black Lives Matter movement.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At the close of 2015, the pot is getting ready to boil over. The decision not to prosecute Cleveland police officers in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the ongoing anger in Minneapolis over the death of Jamar Clark, and two recent Chicago police shootings all create an atmosphere where even angier protests are in the works.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Already, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his Democrat machine regard Black Lives Matter activists as an <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">existential threat</span>.</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The engine that drives the anger is the mainstream media, which has done nothing to seriously vet the Black Lives Matter movement.</b> Much of the anger is caused by the inaccurate reporting that consistently vilifies the police and leaves out key details about the shooting victims. This has led to fables such as “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” which have continued to be amplified and repeated by Black Lives Matter protesters long after they have been debunked.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In fact, one of the key characteristics of the Black Lives Matter movement and the mainstream media’s reporting on it is a naked antipathy for facts. Both in real life and on social media like Twitter, leading Black Lives Matter activists are known for shutting down the speech of dissenting opinions and literally blocking anyone who disagrees with them.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The result has been a hermetically sealed activist movement that is angry and ignorant, with a hairtrigger temper and a long list of grievances that have no factual basis. Worse, their set of crazed demands have been granted time and again by officials who are too scared to speak out for fear of being branded racists.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Like spoiled children, none of this appeasement has done anything to quell the protesters’ fury. Every time that politicians or university administrators have given into the outrageous, entitled Black Lives Matter mob, they’ve learned that feeding that monster has only given it more power to make more demands.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the face of all this feckless kowtowing, no wonder the blunt and in-your-face style of billionaire Donald <b>Trump</b> has hit home for so many Americans. Trump – like Ronald Reagan in the 1960s – seems to be one of the few people in public life willing to tell Black Lives Matter protesters to sit down, shut up, and stop taking the loser road of self-victimization.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This is one of the reasons that Donald Trump, more than any other political candidate on the scene right now, has incurred so much of the wrath and anger of Black Lives Matter. They are keenly aware that he simply will not play their game. The other current frontrunner for the Republican nomination is Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has already demonstrated that he is no cupcake either. Should either Cruz or Trump be the nominee, expect Black Lives Matter’s army to take to the streets and try to shut them down at every opportunity.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For that reason, the current political season is set to be even more divisive than either of the last two election cycles, which had already set a very high bar for vitriol.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As the newest incarnation of the activist Left, Black Lives Matter will not back down or rest until it is either stopped by somone gutsy enough to call them out or until it gets what it wants: a bloody revolution leading to a socialist/anarchist America.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The one thing the left has not counted on, however, is a dogged, active conservative media culture that can bring real information straight to the American people without being filtered by Black Lives Matter’s journalism school comrades. We’re not about to let Black Lives Matter or any leftist revolutionary movement destroy America without making sure they’re fully revealed for what they are.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2016, we’ll be doing here at Breitbart News what the mainstream media will never do: vetting and exposing the real Black Lives Matter movement.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Stay tuned.</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><header class="postHeader" style="line-height: 15px;"><div class="postMetaHeader"><time datetime="2009-05-30T16:02:25+00:00" title="May 30, 2009, 12:02 pm" style="padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">May 30,<b> 2009</b>,&nbsp;</font></time></div><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin: 5px 0px 2px; line-height: 1.083em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">A Last Word on The Acorn Matter</font></h1><address class="byline author vcard" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">By&nbsp;<a href="http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/author/clark-hoyt/" class="url fn" title="See all posts by CLARK HOYT" style="text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">CLARK HOYT</a></font></address></header><div class="entry-content" style="margin-top: 15px; line-height: 15px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Bill O’Reilly, on his Fox News program “The O’Reilly Factor,” accused me of a “blatant lie” in my&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17pubed.html?_r=1">May 17 column</a>&nbsp;about allegations that The Times killed an investigative story that could have been a “game-changer” in the presidential election.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span id="more-167" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Richard Toh of Easton, Pa., said he was “glad there is someone like O’Reilly who is willing to challenge the misinformation by a major news organization.” On the other hand, Barry Feiner of Harrison, N.Y., asked if I intended to respond “to the vicious and, I believe, completely unwarranted attack” by O’Reilly.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">In fact, O’Reilly has peddled false and distorted information as he has tried to twist what I believe was a normal and reasonable editorial decision by The Times into some kind of journalistic scandal. He edited a voicemail from a Times reporter to a confidential source to leave out crucial information that undercut his premise. And he falsely told his viewers that The Times’s source, a disaffected former employee of the left-leaning group Acorn, had made her charge against the paper under oath to Congress.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Here is what happened:</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The accusation that The Times killed a story that would have shown improper coordination between Barack Obama’s campaign and Acorn</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> first surfaced in mid-March&nbsp;</span><a href="http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Heidelbaugh090319.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in congressional testimony</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;by Heather Heidelbaugh, a Republican lawyer from <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pittsburgh</span></span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span> Heidelbaugh said that the </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">former Acorn employee, Anita Moncrief, </b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">told her that she had supplied information for a series of articles about troubles inside Acorn but that the stories stopped when Moncrief told The Times that the Obama campaign had given Acorn its list of donors who had contributed the maximum legal amount to the candidate so that they could be solicited for get-out-the-vote efforts.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Quoting Moncrief, Heidelbaugh said that the reporter on the Acorn story,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Stephanie Strom, explained, “Her editors at The New York Times </span>wanted her to kill the story because, and I quote, ‘it was a game-changer.’”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">O’Reilly picked up the allegation two weeks later. During his&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UZ8OC9MqK0">April 1 broadcast</a>, he said The Times had been investigating links between Acorn and the Obama campaign, then played this excerpt of a voicemail: “Hi, Anita. It’s Stephanie. I have just been asked by my bosses to stand down. </span>They want me to hold off on coming to Washington. Sorry, I take my orders from higher up – ah, sometimes. Anyway, um, I’m sorry about this and we’ll still be in touch. Take care. And let me know if there is anything I can do to help you. Take care. Bye-bye.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the context of an accusation that The Times was killing the story, presumably because it would hurt Obama, this message fit perfectly. And O’Reilly said immediately after playing the tape, “Now, if The Times killed that investigation, it’s a violation of every journalistic ethic and may have even influenced the election.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>But O’Reilly had cut from Strom’s message her reason for canceling her tri</b>p to Washington to meet with Moncrief about the Obama campaign, Acorn and an Acorn affiliate called Project Vote. Right after “stand down,” Strom had said, “ <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We’re running a story tonight for tomorrow that, ah, pretty well lays out the partisanship problems that Project Vote may have, ah, based on a report that I got. So, ah, they think that going to do – that’s going to be the story about the partisanship issue, and so they want me to hold off on coming to Washington.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Putting those words back in paints quite a different picture.</b> David Tabacoff, senior executive producer for The O’Reilly Factor, told me in e-mail that the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> phone call “was simply edited for time</span>.” That would be like saving space by boiling Dick Cheney’s recent speech on national security to a single quote: “President Obama makes wise decisions.” Cheney actually did say that, but tearing it from the rest of what he said would completely distort his meaning.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">O’Reilly called me a liar because I did not mention what he said after he played the edited recording and suggested that The Times had violated “every journalistic ethic.” He had added, “To be fair, The Times did run a story before the election about Acorn’s partisan approach, but stopped there.” This, however, separated that story from Strom’s voicemail, did not mention it as the reason for canceling the Washington trip and made it seem as though it was some disconnected article that had run at some later date, not the very day after Strom’s call to Moncrief. That fails any test of fair reporting.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">To emphasize the credibility of Moncrief’s charge against The Times, O’Reilly told his viewers: “Okay, now, that phone call was made by the <b>New York Times</b> reporter to a whistleblower. That’s Anita, okay?<b> The whistleblower testified under oath before <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Conyers’ committee </span>in Washington that The New York Times killed the story.” He added, “If she lies, a crime, she goes to jail.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But Moncrief did not testify before Congress.</span> Heidelbaugh did.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Tabacoff acknowledged that.</span><b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Heidelbaugh represented the Pennsylvania GOP in litigation against Acorn, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and Anita Moncrief testified under oath at those proceedings,” he said, adding that </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heidelbaugh related Moncrief’s accusations at the congressional hearing.</span></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">“This was something that perhaps should have been made clearer,” Tabacoff said. Clearer? If you say George W. Bush, not George Washington, was the first president of the United States, you aren’t being unclear. You are flat wrong. Much worse, while testifying in Pennsylvania, Moncrief never made any charge under oath that The Times killed a story.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">The way Heidelbaugh constructed her testimony, someone who didn’t do some homework could have made the mistake of thinking that she was repeating charges against The Times that Moncrief made under oath. Shortly after saying, “Ms. Moncrief agreed to testify under oath, subject to the penalty of perjury,” Heidelbaugh said Moncrief had told her how The Times killed the “game-changer” story.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I became skeptical about</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Heidelbaugh [RNLA]&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">because there appeared to be inaccuracies in her testimony about The Times – including her claim that all stories about Acorn stopped after Moncrief revealed to Strom that the Obama campaign had given Acorn its maxed-out donor list. They did not</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Moncrief told Strom about the donor list on Sept. 7. The Times published four articles after that date looking into troubles at Acorn. (See below). So, I bought the transcript of Moncrief’s Pennsylvania testimony and saw that she had not accused The Times under oath.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Strom told me that Moncrief was a useful source for several of her Acorn articles and that after Moncrief told her about the Obama donor list, she asked for it, so she could pursue the story. The list Moncrief ultimately provided contained nearly 56,000 entries, but it bore no indication of its origin. It contained what appeared to be a Federal Election Commission number beside each name and dollar amount, but those numbers did not relate to anything in the F.E.C. database.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Strom said she that she made repeated efforts to verify the list and where it came from. Moncrief finally agreed to go on the record, but she was a problematic source for a news article. S<font>he had been fired from Acorn after running up personal charges on an Acorn credit card.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">The problem for Strom and The Times was that, after investing weeks of reporting effort, Moncrief’s allegations could not be independently verified. Despite denials all around, maybe there will turn out to be a story about the Obama campaign and Acorn, but<b> it would involve fairly technical violations of campaign finance law that experts told me are difficult to prove.</b> So far, although Moncrief has gone public with her information, nobody has produced a convincing report that corroborates it.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Acorn Articles:</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sept. 10, 2008:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/us/10acorn.html?scp=6&sq=Acorn%20strom&st=cse">“Lawsuit Adds to Turmoil for Community Group”</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oct. 11, 2008:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11acorn.html?scp=5&sq=Acorn%20strom&st=cse">“Check Point – On Obama, Acorn and Voter Registration”</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oct. 16, 2008:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/us/16acorn.html?scp=4&sq=Acorn%20strom&st=cse">“Acorn working on Deal to Sever Ties With Founder”</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oct. 22, 2008:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/us/22acorn.html?scp=3&sq=Acorn%20strom&st=cse">“Acorn Report Raises Issues of Legality”</a></font></p></div></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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She also began to blog and write about corruption within the ACORN/Project Vote network of corporations.</font></p><p><b><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June 2009, Project Vote/ACORN filed a lawsuit against MonCrief in an attempt to silence her. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">MonCrief has appeared on numerous radio and television programs including, The Laura Ingraham Show, The O’Reilly Factor, The Sean Hannity Radio show and Fox News programs.</span></font></b></p><p><b><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">In March 2010, the ACORN/Project Vote lawsuit was dismissed.</font></b></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">MonCrief is a regular contributor to Big Government, Hot Air, NetRight Daily, RedState, </span>and other Conservative news websites. 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Mr. Simpson’s work provided the background for Glenn Beck’s groundbreaking TV programs on the subject, and has been discussed widely on talk radio, where he is a frequent guest. Mr. Simpson has been published in the Washington Times, WorldNet Daily, American Thinker, Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government, Front Page Magazine, David Hackworth’s DefenseWatch, Soldier of Fortune, New Media Journal, Right Side News and many others.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jim writes for Examiner.com as DC Independent Examiner and blogs at Truth and Consequences, also the name of a monthly column penned for Military magazine. Access all recent columns via www.crisisnow.net.</font></p><h1 style="font-weight: normal;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tom White</font></h1><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">White is the Editor of Virginia Right (<a href="http://www.varight.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none;">http://www.varight.com</a>) and owns a small business based in Virginia (an Insurance Agency). He is also the IT manager for a building supply company and a US Navy Veteran. Tom has contributed to various online publications such as the American Thinker and the Richmond Examiner. He has covered several CPAC events and various conventions in cluding the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention in 2010.</font></p><h1 style="font-weight: normal;"><b><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Michael Gaynor</font></b></h1><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Michael J. Gaynor has been practicing law in New York since 1973. A former partner at Fulton, Duncombe & Rowe and Gaynor & Bass, he is a solo practitioner admitted to practice in New York state and federal courts and an Association of the Bar of the City of New York member.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Notably, Gaynor & Bass prevailed in the Second Circuit in a seminal copyright infringement case, Tasini v. New York Times, against newspaper and magazine publishers and Lexis-Nexis. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without permission or compensation.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">He has written extensively on political and religious issues, notably the Terry Schiavo case, the Duke “no rape” case,<b> ACORN </b>and canon law, and appeared as a guest on television and radio. He was acknowledged in Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and <b>KC Johnson</b>, and <b>Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin.</b></font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Gaynor is a New York lawyer who contributes regularly to&nbsp;MichNews.com,RenewAmerica.com,&nbsp;WebCommentary.com, and &nbsp;PostChronicle.com.&nbsp; On October 22, 2008,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Gaynor was the first to report that&nbsp;The New York Times&nbsp;had killed an Obama/ACORN expose on which a&nbsp;Times&nbsp;reporter had been working with ACORN whistle blower, Anita MonCrief.</span></font></p><h1 style="font-weight: normal;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Randy Allamon</font></h1><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">An artist and observer of life with vast experience, he often felt compelled to work for the love of the work alone.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">But instead, lets talk about cartoon sheep artist Randy Allamon. He once actually DID live his dream. Eventually, however, he found himself sleepwalking with a drool-covered pillow stuck to the side of his head. Now, he simply draws sheep to make fun of Progressives.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Allamon’s cartoons can be found on, strangely enough,&nbsp;<a href="http://allamon-theallamoncartoonblog.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none;">The Allamon Cartoon Blog</a>. Shy to a fault and somewhat confused, Mr. Allamon is never available for comment.</font></p></div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">- See more at: http://<b>emergingcorruption.com/</b>about/editorial-staff/#sthash.lRQ9mkNy.dpuf</font></div></div></div></div>