After all the debates, the economic crisis, and voting for the president is drawing close, I’d like to submit my opinion.

I’ve seen a lot lately about voter fraud and did some investigation about Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — known by its acronym, ACORN.

What I was surprised to find out from the Wall Street Journal was that ACORN was one of the sticking points of the economic bailout. The contention was whether 20 percent of the profit proceeds for asset sales in the future would go to what is called the Housing Trust Fund, subsidizing certain groups for supposedly nonpartisan activity. One of these groups that this trust supports is ACORN.

From the conservative Web blog Sweetness & Light, Barack Obama represented a 1994 lawsuit against Citibank, charging the bank systematically denied mortgages to African-American applicants and others from minority neighborhoods, which could not afford them.

According to Investors Business Daily, from 1999 to 2002, Obama served on the board of the Woods Fund for Chicago with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers. The Woods Fund frequently gave ACORN grants to fund its agenda and voter registration activities. ACORN has opposed voter ID laws and other efforts to ensure ballot integrity. ACORN has been implicated in voter fraud and bogus registration schemes in Ohio and at least 13 other states.

 Now I heard in Nevada, according to the Washington Post, the Nevada secretary of state and attorney general has alleged that ACORN hired felons as canvassers and submitted apparently fraudulent voter registration cards as part of the drive.

Sen. Obama may not have known about what happened in Nevada, but it is one more scandal from a list of associations from his past. How can we put a man into the highest position of our country knowing he sat in a church where the pastor hates America and has sued for bad mortgages that broke our economy?

Carolyn Cheney

Coos Bay