According to the J.W. Pope Civitas Institute in Raleigh, the speedily confirmed Thomas Ross has a past and has many contacts on the left.  He’s also involved with a little group that shocked the nation with its corruption.  That group?  None other than Barack Obama‘s ACORN.

You may remember a brilliant young woman named Anita Moncrief once went to work for ACORN, as a true believing lefty. However, she saw much that she didn’t like and she wasn’t willing to look away. Three years later, blew the whistle on the group, gaining national notoriety.  She now works for conservative causes and is much beloved on the right.    (Your blogger got to meet her recently, at the RightOnline blogger’s conference, and got the “I’m not worthy feeling“.)

Meanwhile, during his confirmation for the position to be paid for by your tax dollars, all most North Carolinians heard was that “the upstanding Ross” was the president of the well-respected Davidson College, on of the Southeast’s top private institutions.   We didn’t hear about his affiliations with such liberal groups as the left-leaning Z-Smith Reynolds Foundation,  where he

oversaw massive contributions to an enormous array of far-left liberal activist organizations. He took what was already a politically active foundation, founded by one of North Carolina’s most prominent families, and turned it into an active organizer and funder of the left’s political agenda in North Carolina. All manner of socially left organizations were on the foundation’s dole under Ross’s administration, including the radical and nefarious ACORN organization.

Author Andrew Henson described ACORN thusly:

ACORN is an organization of community organizers with a tarnished history of fraud, embezzlement, and conflict of interest. ACORN employees have been tried and convicted of systematic voter registration fraud according to Factcheck.org. There have been reported cases of this kind of fraud in Missouri, Washington, Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and in 2007, ACORN’s Las Vegas office was even raided by state criminal investigators. In addition to fraud, co-founder Dale Rathke was found to have embezzled nearly $1 million from the so-called “charitable” funds of his organization. ACORN had strong ties to President Obama, and was actively engaged, in conjunction with other groups of identifying and turning out Obama voters in NC and across the nation for the 2008 election.

Check out Henson’s shocking piece on the Civitas website.  Additionally, Henson adds a Part II to the story.

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