Irony Abounds! Same Woman who Accused ACORN of Misusing Money is Criticizing Show Me Better Courts

Wish I had more time for analysis, but am on the run. Anyway, Josephine Perkins, quoted in yesterday's article about the Campaign for Liberty's Show Me Better Courts' alleged failure to pay petition gatherers, was also one of the key people criticizing ACORN a few years back regarding the Minimum Wage campaign. Here's the video:

I don't really know what to make of all this right now. Perkins is not the only person making allegations against Show Me Better Courts. In fact, Chris King at the St. Louis American had a really interesting story about two 10-13 year-olds gathering signatures for Show Me Better Courts telling people that they would get a new "air conditioners for their school" if they collected enough signatures. However, the school had just gotten updated ACs.

According to one Old North resident, proponents of a ballot petition to change the way judges are selected in parts of Missouri used adolescents to deceive the public when gathering the signatures the group needs to get its initiative on the ballot.

Graham Lane, a professor at St. Louis Community College–Meramec, said he was stopped between 4:30 and 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 29 at 13th Street and North Market, near his home, by two girls, both African-American. One, whose age he estimated at 10-13 years, approached him. When he responded, he said, the other, who “might have been a year or two older,” crossed the street.

He said the girl who approached him said they were students at Carr Lane School gathering signatures and, if they gathered enough, “somebody was going to give them air conditioners for their school.”

Read the whole thing here.

Update: Changed "Campaign for Liberty" in the 1st paragraph to "Show Me Better Courts," per a suggestion in the comments. It actually was just a mental slip on my part, not an effort to unfairly attack the Campaign for Liberty, so I'm glad the commenter caught it. However, I'm not exactly ready to endorse the commenter's enthusiasm for Campaign for Liberty given their willingness to label people in the city "looters."

Campaign For Liberty to Spread Randian Gospel to "Looters" at Mokabes

The Campaign for Liberty loves to send the message, "hey dudes, it's like totally cool to talk about the constitution and the perils of socialism" to excited audiences of urban youth. And boy, are they off to a great start! While announcing that they're going to start holding a regular "patriotic sign-waving rally" across from Mokabes ("where socialism is strongest"), they claimed that they were going to, "show the looters that even in the City, some still hold strong to truth and moral governance."

Nice. Because everyone knows that the best way to appeal to people in the city is to use the most reactionary and arguably race-baiting anti-city stereotypes possible. Good luck with that Campaign for Liberty!

Update: I'm told that the Campaign for Liberty had one rally near the "looters" a while back that was attended by about 3 people, and then haven't really been showing up since then.