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Hutchison’s campaign compared Perry’s voter recruitment program to tactics used by ACORN, the embattled community organizing group that has long been a target of conservative critics.
“Typical Rick Perry arrogance, when his failed record can’t earn him support, he’ll just buy it,” Hutchison spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in a statement Tuesday. Hutchison aides said her campaign does not pay volunteers.
Democratic consultant Jason Stanford, who managed former U.S. Rep. Chris Bell’s unsuccessful campaign against Perry in 2006, said the Perry program is ripe for abuse.
“It’s the Anglo ACORN. A dishonest Perry supporter could create a huge scam,” Stanford said.
ACORN recently came under fire when its employees were caught on videotape giving advice to a woman posing as a prostitute and to a man posing as her pimp about cheating on taxes and operating a brothel with underage female immigrants.