Showing posts with label ACORN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ACORN. Show all posts

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Democrats Taps ACORN Funder (Please Stop Voting Democrat! Please...)


In a letter Thursday, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine announced that he had selected Patrick Gaspard to serve as the political party’s new executive director.

The selection is certain to draw criticism from conservatives because of Gaspard’s past association with activist organization ACORN.

Gaspard donated thousands of dollars to ACORN, The American Spectator has reported, and worked for New York’s Working Families Party and labor union SEIU.

Kaine wrote in the letter, “He understands the importance of grassroots politics and team building… Working together, I am confident that we can protect the progress of the past two years, achieve important electoral victories in 2011 and 2012.”

Gaspard is currently working as the Obama administration’s director of the Office of Political Affairs. READ MORE...

Monday, November 1, 2010

SCUMBAG WATCH: Video- Ellison crashes Election Integrity press conference, stomps off when questioned; Update: Video fixed



Minnesota Majority held a press conference on Thursday to discuss their lawsuit against Hennepin and Ramsey counties (Minneapolis and St.Paul) over a new policy implemented this year that bars Tea Party themed clothing and MM’s Election Integrity buttons from being worn at polling places. The presser got taken over by an uninvited Rep. Keith Ellison, the DFL incumbent in MN-05, who proceeded to accuse the organization of voter intimidation in its efforts to prevent fraud. When it comes to answering questions about his own misrepresentations — and a pointed one about who benefits from not requiring photo ID at the polling place — Ellison suddenly became a lot less interested in hijacking the podium.

Well, voter fraud is a felony, and those who get arrested for it may well find themselves in handcuffs. Retail stores have used posters like that for years to warn people against shoplifting, which is only a misdemeanor in most cases. Are those cases of shopper intimidation? Furthermore, the big eye on the button is taken, as voices in the video point out, from the Neighborhood Watch program, which has been used for years. (It’s also on the back of the $1 bill.)

Most of the fun comes in the final minute or so: READ MORE...

Monday, September 27, 2010

Is the SEIU Connected to Voter Fraud in Harris County, Texas?


In a story on Saturday, Fox News introduced us to possible voter fraud in Harris County Texas (Houston). It all started so innocently: a group of citizens decided that they should not just talk about politics and government, but actually get involved. So they did, by volunteering at the polls. But a civic duty turned into a nightmare.

“What we saw shocked us,” Catherine Engelbrecht, the group’s leader, said. “There was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for people that asked for help. It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights.”

She lead the charge to create “True the Vote,” a citizen-based grassroots organization that began collecting publicly available voting data to prove and root out voter fraud wherever they could find it.

What ensued is almost like a John Grisham novel: a tragic fire, a possible SEIU connection, and a county left scrambling before the November election. RedState lays out the story [emphasis added by RS]:

1. In 2008, a group of citizens in Harris County, Texas saw what appeared to be a massive attack on the integrity of the election process.

2. Last month, a mysterious fire broke out that destroyed most of the voting machines for Harris County, Texas. [Houston is in Harris County.]

3. The fire occurred three days after Harris County voter registrar Leo Vasquez issued a press release stating:

“The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes,” Vasquez said at a 2 p.m. press conference at his office, where he also released copies of applications in some of the most egregious cases. READ MORE...

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

ACORN: Alive And Well Under New Names


It looks like the congenitally corrupt, still-operating Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) won't be getting any more U.S. tax dollars - for the time being.

That's because in a startlingly unusual victory for common sense, a federal appeals court slapped down a bizarre ruling by Brooklyn-based federal Judge Nina Gershon. The life-tenured judge had determined that the U.S. government's spending power belongs to federal judges now, regardless of what that quaint little document called the U.S. Constitution says. Judge Gershon ruled that Congress had violated ACORN's "rights" and passed an unconstitutional "bill of attainder" punishing ACORN without trial when it decided to stop funding the group.

But the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 13 that Judge Gershon had overreached. The appellate court found that the "withholding of appropriations" is not punishment. "Congress's decision to withhold funds from ACORN and its affiliates constitutes neither imprisonment, banishment, nor death," the three-judge panel wrote. "In comparison to penalties levied against individuals, a temporary disqualification from funds or deprivation of property aimed at a corporation may be more an inconvenience than punishment."


ACORN had launched the lawsuit challenging its congressional defunding on the advice of longtime ACORN ally Rep. Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat, who urged ACORN's New York-based attorney Arthur Z. Schwartz to fight the cutoff in court. As chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee, Mr. Nadler repeatedly has refused calls to investigate ACORN. He even turned down a probe request from the full committee's chairman, Rep. John Conyers, Michigan Democrat. READ MORE...

Sunday, August 22, 2010

IT'S ABOVE THE PAY GRADE: It's becoming apparent that a man who made his name as a community organizer does not have the skills to be President


It is becoming apparent for all to see that a man who made his name as a community organizer does not have the skills to be president of these United States. Maybe he could develop the requisite skills as a governor. Possibly he could develop such skills were he to sit in the Senate for a couple of terms. Yet there are delicate sensitivities, the ability to listen, to stick by your guns, occasionally to remain reticent. These are the fundamentals of a leader, and President Obama has demonstrated that he lacks all of them, most notably reticence. I think it is clear even to official Washington that Mr. Obama is the worst president of modern times. President Jimmy Carter is redeemed.

The other night at a White House dinner solemnizing the opening of Ramadan, he leapt right in to endorse building a mosque at ground zero. He - a man who has shown no religious fervor during his time in the White House - let out a ringing defense of religious liberty and tolerance. Of a sudden, he was at the center of a national controversy that was growing. It put me in mind of his inability to defuse the controversy over health care. Any sensible president would have relented as opposition to health care grew to the majority position. He would have settled for some sort of compromise, but not the community-organizer-turned-president. He wanted it all. He lunged on and created among the electorate a row over national health care that divided the nation and put some of us in mind of a civil war that continues to rage. What is more, he imperiled his party's margins in both houses. READ MORE...


This woman has a bullhorn and the ability to blame 'the man' for all of the problems in her community. She's already more than qualified to run for President in 2012.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

SAVAGES: ACORN Storms Chase Bank Branch. Your Tax Dollars At Work...


And this is going to accomplish what?

We can see why Obama loves ACORN so much, they both prevent people from WORKING...

The PIMP PARTY (democrats) send these ACORN people out to do their dirty work and your tax dollars fund ACORN. Hopefully, they don't steal anymore elections (Minnesota Senate race) and eventually we can stop funding this corrupt organization.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Audio: How the DOJ allowed voter fraud in Minnesota. Remember Franken-Coleman?


Former Department of Justice attorney J. Christian Adams has blown the whistle on politicization within Justice in enforcing election laws, specifically the laws requiring cleaning voter rolls of the deceased and convicted felons. While the main focus of the media (such as it is) has been on the politics of the issue, Adams wants to get more of a focus on the consequences of politicization. He talks with Twin Cities talk-show host Chris Baker about the impact of this politicization in Minnesota, a subject that Minnesota Majority knows all too well. The conservative organization has spent the past 20 months attempting to get the attention of the DoJ on this very subject, to no avail:

Minnesota Majority has experienced the DOJ’s refusal to investigate these kind of cases first-hand. On November 17th of 2008 (immediately following the 2008 General Election and while the Coleman-Franken recount battle was getting underway), Minnesota Majority president Jeff Davis sent a certified letter to then Voting Section chief of the Civil Rights Division at the DOJ, Christopher Coates, requesting an investigation into apparent failures to comply with HAVA by Secretary of State Mark Ritchie. No response was forthcoming. READ MORE...

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

WHISTLEBLOWER: DOJ OK's Voter Fraud to Help Dems Win Elections


Click here for the video...

This week Adams told the Commission: "The [voting] section doesn’t want to protect white voters." And he named names. He testified that Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes told Voting Section management that there would be no more cases brought against black defendants vindicating the rights of white victims. Adams personally heard Fernandes say that the division would only bring "traditional civil rights cases" (code words for suits against white racists). Adams also heard Fernandes say that she had no interest in the Voting Section enforcing Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (which requires purging rolls of ineligible voters to prevent voter fraud), because Section 8 does not increase voter turnout. Fernandes now needs to be questioned under oath, as does the head of the Civil Rights Division, Thomas Perez, who previously testified this was not the Justice Department's policy and that he was unaware of such views.

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Thursday, June 10, 2010

OPPRESSORS: FBI report: ACORN 'poverty pimpin' for Democrats. Agency documents Election Day confusion plot, multiple voting, ID theft, threats...


FBI investigation notes reveal ACORN was working for the Democratic Party and told employees not to talk to the FBI, to cause confusion on Election Day and to go "poverty pimpin'" for votes.

Judicial Watch, a corruption-fighting legal group, obtained the notes related to the 2007 investigation and arrest of eight St. Louis, Mo., ACORN workers for violating election laws and committing voter fraud.

'Poverty pimpin,' fraud and work for Democratic Party

The FBI investigators interviewed ACORN canvassers working with Project Vote, an ACORN affiliate. Among the documents obtained by Judicial Watch were handwritten notes by FBI officials outlining the group's fraudulent activities. The following are some highlights from the FBI notes:

ACORN "told employees not to talk to the FBI," saying the FBI is "trying to intimidate you." Staff members were restricted on what they were allowed to say to the FBI.
ACORN accepted "fraudulent cards" "to cause confusion on Election Day to keep polls open longer," "to allow people who can't vote to vote" and "to allow voters to vote multiple times."
"Project Vote will pay them whether cards fake or not – whatever they had to do to get the cards was attitude." READ MORE...

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Obama, extremist cronies dragged into light for world to see. 'Manchurian President' exposé breaks through to No. 10 on NY Times list


A blockbuster book exposing President Obama's extremist background and outing the radicals crafting White House policy has skyrocketed on the coveted New York Times bestseller list.

"The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's ties to communists, socialists and other anti-American extremists," rose to No. 10 on the New York Times list. The literary indictment debuted on the list at No. 22 upon the work's release two weeks ago week and has been jumping ranks ever since.

The book also topped the esteemed Publishers Weekly bestseller list.

As WND has reported, the book has also been a huge hit with the online book retailer Amazon.com.

Two weeks ago, "The Manchurian President" climbed all the way to the No. 1 position on both Amazon.com's "Hot New Releases in Politics" list and its "Hot New Releases in Non-Fiction" list. The book also grabbed the top spot among bestsellers in the Politics category and ranked third among all non-fiction titles sold by the retail giant.

"The Manchurian President" is the result of two years of solid investigations into those within Obama's inner circle as well as the president's shadowy younger years.

Among the many finds of "The Manchurian President" READ MORE...

Friday, April 2, 2010

Radical Scumbag Frances Fox Piven Joins Board Of Project Vote- What Could Go Wrong..


While ACORN has earned much of the scorn of the press and public in recent months, its voter registration arm, Project Vote, is actually the entity that has been conducting the questionable voter registration drives.

Project Vote has been accused of voter registrations fraud in more than a dozen states. Its parent group ACORN, along with a staff member, are scheduled to be tried for fraud in Nevada in a matter of days. Recently, ACORN was nailed under the RICO Act in Ohio and ordered to never come back to the state. More importantly, the settlement also said ACORN couldn’t simply morph into another organization and cause the same type of trouble in Ohio.

In short, Project Vote is at the root of ACORN’s voter registration fraud problems.

So as ACORN is transforming, Project Vote is transforming, too. According to a new article in The Nation, Frances Fox Piven of “Cloward-Piven Strategy” fame, recently joined the Project Vote board of directors.

On their face, Piven’s views seem harmless – registering low-income people to vote is how it’s framed publicly. But it was Piven’s strategy that served as the impetus for the creation of the National Welfare Rights Organization, led by the radical George Wiley. Wiley had a young protégé, named Wade Rathke, who was eventually dispatched to Arkansas to establish a beachhead in the South for the social justice movement. He founded, of course, ACORN.

The strategy put forward by Piven and Richard Cloward, to overwhelm the welfare system in the late 60s and early 70s, bankrupted New York City.

It was Piven who suggested that people losing their homes to foreclosure should simply refuse to leave. ACORN had been following this strategy to a T with its Home Defenders program.

And now Piven is going to have a direct influence over the policy and direction of Project Vote. READ MORE...

Friday, March 19, 2010

WHILE AN ANXIOUS NATION IS TRANSFIXED BY THE HEALTHCARE DEBATE, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION RESTORES ACORN FUNDING. BOTTOM LINE; DEMOCRATS ARE SCUMBAGS..


Just one of many lies by the most famous 'community organizer' in America, Barack Hussein Obama. Now do you know why we call his supporters 'idiots?' It's because they are...

At 1:15 of this video, watch him lie with a straight face and then change the subject. He even admitted that what he saw on that tape was 'inappropriate.' What an embarrassing President.

While America is distracted by Democrats’ attempts to unconstitutionally ram government-run healthcare down the throats of the American people, the Obama administration began preparing to resume funding to President Obama’s favorite community organizing group.

The fiscal floodgates are opening for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the president’s former employer and legal client, despite a congressional ban on funding the activist group that has long been a practitioner of election fraud.

In a March 16 memo Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Peter Orszag quietly ordered federal agencies to resume funding the group whose employees were caught on hidden camera videos last year condoning a variety of crimes including child prostitution and tax evasion. READ MORE...

How much more evidence do the Obama 'sheep' need?


What person with a functioning brain would want their tax dollars going to this low-life organization?

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Obama Justice Department Shut Down Federal ACORN Investigation According to Documents Obtained by Judicial Watch


WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) detailing federal investigations into the alleged corrupt activities of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The documents reference serious allegations of corruption and voter registration fraud by ACORN as well as the Obama administration's decision to shut down a criminal investigation without filing criminal charges.

The documents include background information on two specific complaints filed in October 2008 by Lucy Corelli and Joseph Borges, Republican Registrars of Voters in Stamford and Bridgeport, Connecticut, respectively, during the 2008 election season.

According to Corelli, on August 1, 2008, her office received 1,200 ACORN voter registration cards from the Secretary of State's office. Over 300 of these cards were rejected because of "duplicates, underage, illegible and invalid addresses," which "put a tremendous strain on our office staff and caused endless work hours at taxpayers' expense." Corelli claimed the total cost of the extra work caused by ACORN corruption was $20,000. Likewise, Borges contended that: "The organization ACORN during the summer of 2008 conducted a registration drive which has produced over 100 rejections due to incomplete forms and individuals who are not citizens..." Among the examples cited by Borges was a seven-year old child who was registered to vote by ACORN through the use of a forged signature and a fake birth certificate claiming she was 27-years old.

The FBI and Department of Justice opened an investigation. However, the Obama Justice Department, while noting that ACORN had engaged in "questionable hiring and training practices," closed down the investigation in March 2009, claiming ACORN broke no laws.

By contrast, the documents also include records related to a federal investigation of ACORN corruption in St. Louis, Missouri, involving 1,492 allegedly fraudulent voter registration cards submitted by Project Vote, a liberal non-profit organization affiliated with ACORN on voter registration drives, during the 2006 election season. Assistant United States Attorney Hal Goldsmith initiated the investigation with "concurrence" from the Department of Justice and the participation of the FBI. According to a Justice Department memo, Goldsmith "advised he would prosecute any individual responsible for submitting fraudulent voter registration cards." Goldsmith identified the statute for prosecution: Title 42, USC 1973 (gg), which provides for criminal penalties for fraudulent voter registrations. In April 2008, eight former ACORN employees from the St. Louis office pled guilty to voter registration fraud.

Other documents show that the Bush Justice Department failed to prosecute ACORN voter registration fraud of non-citizens in Phoenix, Arizona in 2007 because the allegations that led to the opening of the investigation were "unverifiable." Notably, the FBI document detailing this questionable decision reveals that a "draft Intelligence Bulletin... concludes that ACORN's employment practices perpetuate fraudulent voter registration."

The ACORN documents uncovered by Judicial Watch include internal FBI memoranda, signed affidavits, subpoenas, fraudulent voter registration cards, and publications describing ACORN's policies and practices. The documents also include details regarding numerous allegations of corruption extending beyond voter registration fraud, to include attempts by ACORN employees to coerce workers to participate in campaign activities on behalf of Democratic candidates.

"These documents reflect systematic voter registration fraud by ACORN," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "It is a scandal that there has been no comprehensive criminal investigation and prosecution by the Justice Department into this evident criminal conduct. Given President Obama's close connections to ACORN, including his campaign's hiring of the ACORN's Project Vote organization, it seems rather obvious why Attorney General Holder has failed to seriously investigate these and other alleged ACORN criminal activities."

Visit www.JudicialWatch.org to read the ACORN documents obtained by Judicial Watch.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Wisconsin AG charges five with election fraud, two from ACORN. “All hoodlums” working at ACORN.


Jeeezzzz, this President is batting a thousand isn't he?!? What were these morons thinking when they voted for Barack Hussein Obama. All the signs were there. Bush Derangement Syndrome is going to go down as one of the biggest temporally outbreaks of all time.

The state of Wisconsin faced serious problems of election fraud in the 2004 election in what some of us at the time called “The Silence of the Cheese.” In the aftermath of the embarrassing scandal, the state pushed hard for reforms — unsuccessfully at times, as with voter-ID laws — and raised the enforcement profile for voter fraud. Before the 2008 election, Wisconsin’s Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen and Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisolm formed a special task force to combat attempts to pervert elections, especially in Milwaukee, where most of the problems occurred in 2004.

Today, Van Hollen announced indictments in five cases — including two felony indictments against ACORN for scheming to have registrants vote multiple times in November 2008. The AG released this statement today:

MILWAUKEE – Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that the Milwaukee Election Fraud Task Force has brought additional electoral fraud cases against five Wisconsin residents. The Department of Justice, acting as Special Prosecutor for Milwaukee County, has filed felony charges against Maria Miles, Kevin Clancy, Michael Henderson, Herbert Gunka, and Suzanne Gunka, all alleging election fraud arising out of the November 4, 2008, Presidential Election READ MORE...

Monday, March 1, 2010

STEALING THE NEXT ELECTION IN 2010 AND 2012. From amnesty to universal registration, Obama's strategy for maintaining power


As Barack Obama's approval ratings continue to plummet, the tea party movement explodes and Democrats lose election after election – even in Massachusetts – one giant question looms large for Team Obama: How to stay in power?

The answer to that question can be found in the groundbreaking March issue of Whistleblower magazine, titled "STEALING THE NEXT ELECTION."

This game-changing special report is summarized in its long subtitle: "Amnesty, universal voter registration, felons voting, operatives planted: Team Obama's strategy for maintaining permanent power."

"The people currently running the show in Washington," said Whistleblower Editor David Kupelian, "come from the radical leftist world of Saul Alinsky in which everything they do – no matter how unethical, corrupt and flat-out illegal – is morally justified if it advances their agenda. Winning votes and elections by any means possible is their stock in trade."

"STEALING THE NEXT ELECTION" surveys the various stratagems the far left is currently developing to consolidate power in the U.S. long-term. The list includes:

Universal voter registration: Now being secretly prepared by at least two prominent members of Congress, this is essentially a scheme to legalize voter fraud by shifting responsibility for registering to vote from the citizen to the government, meaning people are automatically registered to vote, based on DMV records, income-tax returns, welfare rolls, unemployment lists and other government databases.

Illegal immigrant registration: Since government databases contain names of non-citizens, not to mention mentally incompetent individuals and felons – factors that would ordinarily disqualify a person from voting in most states – universal registration would open the floodgates to fraud. And since many people own property in more than one location and pay taxes to numerous government entities, they would be afforded the opportunity to vote in multiple locations.

Amnesty: Disguised once again by euphemisms like "comprehensive immigration reform," amnesty will create millions of new Democrat voters. As Obama adviser and SEIU executive vice president Eliseo Medina said recently regarding amnesty: "Can you imagine 8 million new voters who care about our issues and will be voting? We will be creating a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle."

Convicted felons voting: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late last year cleared the way for inmates to vote from prison. The court overturned a Washington state law prohibiting felons from voting until they are released and off parole, arguing state restrictions unfairly penalized minorities since they have a higher incarceration rate. Polls show felons overwhelmingly prefer Democrats.

Planting operatives in America's statehouses: A subversive, Soros-backed group called the Secretary of State Project is gearing up to steal the 2012 election for Obama and congressional Democrats by installing left-wing Democrats as secretaries of state across the nation, from which posts they can help tilt the electoral playing field.

"This is just a taste of the astonishing revelations in March's Whistleblower edition," said Kupelian. "It gets much worse." READ MORE...

Sunday, February 28, 2010

White House to push ACORN pet project. Critics warn plan will 'sneak socialism' into U.S., cause major economic loss


At 2:00 of this video, you will here Obama himself. The entire video is worth watching.

The White House is considering a new policy that would give an advantage in bids for billions in government contracts to companies that pay workers "living wages" and offer generous benefits.

WND has learned the "living wage" campaign has long been pushed by the radical Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, and was largely initiated on a local level in the 1990s with the help of a socialist party of which evidence suggests Obama was a member.


Critics warn a living wage advantage for more than $500 billion in government contracts could harm small companies, with case studies showing cities that enacted similar policies in the 1990s faced major financial losses. Business groups who oppose the plan say also it would increase government procurement costs.

The Associated Press obtained documents outlining the White House plan. The documents reportedly show the government would examine the wages and benefits – such as health insurance, retirement benefits and paid leave – a firm pays its employees as a factor in the process of awarding government contracts. Another factor would be whether a contract bidder is a repeat violator of labor and employment laws.

A Labor Department compliance office would compile a score on contract bidders based on the criteria and then determine which companies would get government contracts.

Writing about a similar policy that was being considered in Chicago in 2003, Steven Malanga of the City Journal stated the movement "sneaks socialism into cities." READ MORE...
HOW MUCH MORE EVIDENCE DO THESE OBAMA ZOMBIES NEED?

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

BUSTED! OBAMA LIES ABOUT HIS TIES TO ACORN- VIDEO. Has there ever been a more dishonest politician than Barack Hussein Obama?


Barack Obama is a compulsive liar and continues to play his 'dumb' supporters like suckers. How can they NOT see through this corny community organizing con artist. His con game is weak, obvious, and a smack in the face to all of his cult members.

Remember, Barack Obama doesn't THINK his supporters are stupid, he KNOWS they are...

See VIDEO below to see what ACORN is all about and how Barack Obama got his start as a con artist.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Taxpayers Fork Out $2.5M for Census Ad During Super Bowl


Taxpayers might want to pay close attention to this Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast or they'll miss Uncle Sam's 30-second, $2.5-million reminder to stand up and be counted.

Taxpayers might want to pay close attention to this Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast or they'll miss Uncle Sam's 30-second, $2.5-million reminder to stand up and be counted.

That's what the Census Bureau paid CBS to get their message notched somewhere between a National Lampoon reprisal, a weird dude with big glasses, a beer-can house and men without pants.

And, that's just a fraction of what the bureau plans to spend this year to get Americans to answer a simple, 10-question survey.

The bureau is spending $133 million between January and May -- or, more than $13 million for each of 10 questions, one of which reads: What is your telephone number? -- to publicize the national head-count. Part of that effort is the Super Bowl ad, which Kendall Johnson, a spokeswoman for the bureau, confirmed Wednesday to FoxNews.com cost $2.5 million to air. The ad, produced by actor and director Christopher Guest, also will appear in other media, Johnson said. READ MORE...