KERRY'S FELON FOLLIES
June 26, 2004 -- Crackheads for Kerry?
Turns out that stranger knocking on the door urging you to register to vote — and asking for such personal data as your driver's license and Social Security numbers — may be a convicted drug dealer, or maybe even a rapist.
He may even still be living in a halfway house, fresh from prison — and now he wants to enlist you in the effort to defeat President Bush in November.
Just fill in his form, please.
It's all brought to you by George Soros, the Hungarian-born hedge-fund gazillionaire and anti-Bush zealot who can see little moral difference between 9/11 and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
Soros has given $10 million to America Coming Together (ACT), one of those anti-Bush special-interest groups that insist (wink, wink) they have "nothing to do with John Kerry's campaign" — though its Web site says it is "laying the groundwork to defeat George W. Bush and elect Democrats in federal, state and local elections."
Actually, it would be illegal for ACT to admit coordination with the Kerry campaign — but the organization is chock-a-block with veteran Democratic organizers, many with longstanding ties to the presumptive Democratic nominee.
ACT, which was founded by a former political director of the AFL-CIO and the founder of the pro-abortion Emily's List, officially is in the business of registering voters in several battleground states, using door-to-door canvassers who are paid from $8 to $12 an hour.
An Associated Press investigation showed that dozens of names and addresses of ACT employees match those of people convicted of burglary, forgery, drug dealing, assault and sex offenses.
At least four of those are felons who got sent back to prison: two for drug violations and one for endangering the welfare of a minor.
ACT insists that it doesn't hire "violent" felons (though it refuses to define "violent") and believes that ex-cons deserve a second chance (though they're legally barred from voting themselves).
Tell it to the Missouri Department of Corrections — which has banned ACT from its list of approved employers for felons in halfway houses, citing "public safety" concerns over their handling sensitive personal information.
Surely such concern is warranted.
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