Documents secured by Oklahoma City Republican Representative Mike Reynolds reveal ACORN tactics to help defeat Republican legislators.
Representative Reynolds investigated documents from an abandoned local ACORN office because of reports of impropriety at other organization chapters. The documents, which were found in an abandoned local office of ACORN in south Oklahoma City’s “Little Mexico” neighborhood, reveal that in 2007, ACORN devised a five-year ‘Power Plan’ to “build powerful city organizations in Oklahoma City and Tulsa that can control these municipalities.”
The documents also provide insight in into ACORN’s alliance with the Oklahoma Democratic Party to secure, “strategic legislative districts that, by themselves, can change who controls the state legislature.”
These districts are all urban/suburban districts in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, including Senate District 33 held by Democrat Tom Adelson; House District 85, won by Republican David Dank; House District 87, held by Republican Trebor Worthen, House District 93, held by incumbent Democrat Al Lindley, and their “biggest prize”, Senate District 43 held by Republican Jim Reynolds.
Senator Reynolds was reelected to a third term in 2008, by a narrow 159 votes against an unknown candidate named David Boren who spent thousands of dollars during the last week’s of the campaign in a last minute effort to defeat the incumbent.
To read a more in depth report of the ACORN documents and their plans to promote Democrats, go to Oklahoma Watchdog.
While the investigation in ACORN and what they were doing is cause for concern, what also needs to be investigated is how Rep Reynolds obtained these documents, why did he wait 1 year before publishing them, the convenient way to find a password to unlock those documents, and why did he publish them to a private website? This does not pass the smell test.