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September 14, 2009
Just Now Senate Votes to Defund ACORN Housing
Breaking: Senate Votes to Defund ACORN Housing
WASHINGTON
The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.
The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The action came as the group is suffering from bad publicity after a duo of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore gave advice on house-buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman’s income. Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets such as the Fox News Channel, depict similar situations in ACORN offices in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.
The Senate’s move would mean that ACORN would not be able to win HUD grants for programs such as counseling low-income people on how to get mortgages and for fair housing education and outreach.
Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., said that ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer funds since 1994 and that the group was eligible for a wider set of funding in the pending legislation, which funds housing and transportation programs.
Just last week, the Census Bureau severed its ties with ACORN, saying it does not want the group's help in outreach efforts on the decennial count.
In recent months, Republicans have become increasingly critical of the census' ties with ACORN. The group, which advocates for poor people, conducted a massive voter registration effort last year and became a target of conservatives when some employees were accused of submitting false registration forms with names such as "Mickey Mouse."
Just last week, prosecutors in Miami-Dade County, Fla., arrested 11 people for falsifying hundreds of voter applications during a registration drive last year. ACORN tipped the authorities off to the problem.
On the hidden camera controversy, ACORN says it has fired the employees involved but has lashed out at Fox for pumping up the scandal. In a statement, Bertha Lewis, ACORN's chief organizer, said the tapes had been doctored and violated Maryland's wiretapping laws. She promised to sue Fox.
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Here is the list of the seven nays :
•Dick Durbin (D-IL)
•Roland Burris (D-IL)
•Robert Casey (D-PA)
•Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
•Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
•Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
•Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wild Thing's comment.......
Of course, the bill still must be passed by the House and signed by President Obama (yeah, right) but congrats to Glenn Beck, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles for exposing the corruption.
Posted by Wild Thing at September 14, 2009 07:55 PM
Comments
The AP line is choice, 'the group suffering from bad publicity.' As if some unknown source make victims out of poor Acorn. Not to mention the whole damn group is a dysfunctional bunch of left wing loons who seem to think they are above the law. Voter fraud of massive proportions, they have no morals, directing a supposed prostitute how to avoid paying taxes and how to keep her brothel a legitimate business, and bringing in under age hookers.
But of course this is what the MSM calls bad publicity.
Do you think the AP can somehow blame Bush for this one too?
Posted by: Mark at September 14, 2009 09:23 PM
Of course this is not the same ACORN that obama knew so well(sarc). Oh yeah, and worked for.
Posted by: TomR at September 14, 2009 09:53 PM
Mark, good point and thanks for pointing
out that line. I had to laugh when I saw
it, so typical of the left to state it
like that.
LOL Yes they will blame Bush.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 15, 2009 12:18 AM
Tom, LMAO good one.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 15, 2009 12:19 AM
Up here autumn is in the air and ACORNS are falling like leaves too Wild Thing! "NUTS!"
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at September 15, 2009 02:44 PM
