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JAFFA,Israel-Did Sen. Barack Obama's campaign attempt to hide a paid working relationship with a radical leftist organization that has admitted to major financial improprieties and has been convicted in numerous major voter fraud scandals? That question is being openly asked by the Republican National Committee after it was disclosed Obama's campaign paid more than $800,000 in services to Citizen Services Inc.(CSI), a nonprofit organization that is an offshoot of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.ACORN is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families. It has held violent, disruptive protests, seeks to regulate banks, supports left-leaning education policies, is accused of working on urging partisan voter turnout for elections, and seems to promote driving businesses from cities. CSI is headquartered in New Orleans in the same building as ACORN.The three directors of CSI are also top leaders of ACORN.The two groups have close financial ties.The Obama campaign's payments to CSI=first reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review-raise questions about the nature of Obama's current relationship with ACORN. Obama has been closely linked with the radical group and may have even helped drive large amount of money to the organization. According to FEC records reviewed by the Tribune-Review, the Obama campaign paid CSI $832,598.29, from Feb. 25 to May 17, including $564,342.21 for "stage, lighting and sound." That payment immediately stood out after a pro-Hillary Clinton blogger contacted CSI Director Sunday Alabi, who also serves as an ACORN leader. Alabi said CSI doesn't perform stage, lighting or sound services. Also unusual was payment to CSI of $63,000 and $75,000 for advance work. Excluding the large payments to CSI,the average amount the Obama campaign spent on advance work paid to other organizations was $558.82.The Obama campaign on Friday announced it was amending its FEC filings to indicate it hired CSI for"get out the vote"projects instead of stage,lighting and sound. FEC spokeswoman Mary Brandenberger told the Tribune-Review it is not unusual for campaigns to amend FEC reports, even in the case of large sums of money.The RNC immediately pounced, accusing Obama of hiding a deeper relationship with ACORN:"Barack Obama's failure to accurately report his campaign's financial records is an incredibly suspicious situation that appears to be an attempt to hide his campaign's interaction with a left-wing organization previously convicted of voter fraud. For a candidate who claims to be practicing 'new' politics, his FEC reports look an awful lot like the 'old-style' Chicago politics of yesterday," stated RNC Spokeswoman Blair Latoff. Obama's camp fired back, accusing the RNC of "outlandish conspiracy theories" and pointing out Sen. John McCain was forced to return $50,000 "raised by a foreign national through a number of contributors who weren't even supporting McCain."To read more go to:
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