- The Washington Times - Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Why is an affiliate of the disgraced group ACORN lobbying the White House?

White House visitor records show that attorney Estelle H. Rogers, director of advocacy at ACORN-affiliated Project Vote, met with a senior aide to Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and with Van Jones‘ former chief of staff.

Is a single visit to the White House normally cause for concern? Not necessarily, but this is a visitor from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), an organization infamous for massive voter fraud and that at one time employed the president of the United States. What in the world did Ms. Rogers and White House officials talk about?

Watchdog group Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Justice Department, demanding copies of all correspondence between department officials and Ms. Rogers, a former attorney for ACORN. Judicial Watch said it is investigating the extent to which the department and Project Vote “are partnering on a national campaign to use the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA) to register more individuals on public assistance, widely considered a key voting demographic for the Obama 2012 campaign.”

According to Project Vote’s website Ms. Rogers represented Project Vote “at meetings and legislative hearings, preparing a voting rights agenda for submission to the Presidential Transition Team in 2008-2009.”

She visited the White House on March 2, meeting with Shasti Conrad and Jon Carson, according to the White House visitors database.

Ms. Conrad is executive assistant to Ms. Jarrett, who is so close to Mr. Obama and so perfectly aligned with his thinking that the media dubbed her “the other side of Barack’s brain” and “a female version of Barack.”

Mr. Carson is director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Previously he was chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) serving under Van Jones, the self-described communist who was known as Mr. Obama’s green jobs czar. Mr. Jones was forced out in September 2009 after it was revealed he had signed a “truther” petition that accused President George W. Bush of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

Project Vote is the unit of the ACORN network that Barack Obama worked for in 1992 when he ran a successful get-out-the-vote drive that helped to elect the radical leftist Carol Moseley Braun as Democratic senator from Illinois.

Project Vote’s official position is that voter fraud is a myth invented by Republicans to disenfranchise Democratic voters. The group vilifies as a racist anyone who thinks voter ID requirements are a good idea and constantly presses to make voting requirements in general even more lax than they now are.