Acorn Funding Vote-Drudge Report

[haldir]

Drudge is reporting the Congress has voted overwhelmingly to cut off some of the funding for Acorn. I guess we will wait and see. As I understand it they are a many headed snake.

 

[don't_tread_on_me]

I just finished sending emails to Lugar and Bayh urging both to suspend all Federal funds to the organization pending the result of a thorough investigation into the organization. Maybe if enough of us "average Americans" make enough noise about this they will actually listen. Then again, this organization is Obama's baby so the admin will probably defend ACORNS actions to the bitter end.

 

[melensdad]

Senate votes on Johanns amendment to cut off ACORN housing funds; Update: Amendment passes, 83-7
By Michelle Malkin • September 14, 2009 05:22 PM

Just watched GOP Sen. Mike Johanns introduce his amendment on the Senate floor banning federal funds in the current transportation and housing appropriations bill from going to ACORN. Currently, ACORN is eligible to receive millions more in taxpayer funds through mortgage counseling, Community Development Block Grants, and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program — in addition to the tens of millions ACORN Housing Corp. has already received.

The vote is underway right now.

The Johanns Amendment is #2355 to H.R. 3288.

Johanns cited the BigGovernment.com sting videos as evidence that ACORN cannot be trusted with government money:

“Until a full investigation is launched into ACORN, no taxpayer money should be used to fund its activities. A vote in favor of my amendment is a vote in favor of the taxpayer and a vote against the status quo.”​

He forgot to add the five most important words:
ACORN is a criminal enterprise.​

Michelle Malkin Senate votes on Johanns amendment to cut off ACORN housing funds; Update: Amendment passes, 83-7

 

[rambone]

So ACORN is officially cut off from tax funds?? WOOHOO!

 

[Mgderf]

Senate votes on Johanns amendment to cut off ACORN housing funds; Update: Amendment passes, 83-7
By Michelle Malkin • September 14, 2009 05:22 PM

I "Hope" this is just the beginning!
​

 

[melensdad]

So ACORN is officially cut off from tax funds?? WOOHOO!

NO!!!

This still has to pass through the CONFERENCE COMMITTEE and get signed by the President.

BUT it will be hard for the funding to get through without a major uproar!!!

 

[JcJ]

So who are the 7 ultra scumbags?

 

[IrishSon of Liberty]

NAYs ---7 Burris (D-IL)
Casey (D-PA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Leahy (D-VT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Not Voting - 9 Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Coburn (R-OK)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hutchison (R-TX)
McCain (R-AZ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Vitter (R-LA)

 

[Boilers]

Those monies need to be diverted to somewhere.

How about we start a group called WALNUT?

White Anglo Libertarian Nationally Unified Theocrats?



j/k.

 

[Bigum1969]

NAYs ---7 Burris (D-IL)
Casey (D-PA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Leahy (D-VT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Not Voting - 9 Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Coburn (R-OK)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hutchison (R-TX)
McCain (R-AZ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Vitter (R-LA)

Notice the nays from Durbin and Burris? Shocking.

 

[ATF Consumer]

I don't think our tax dollars should be funding any sort of program that cannot do in the free market on their own.
Just imagine how low our tax burden would be without all of these special interest groups getting our hard worked income.

 

[rambone]

Senate Votes to Cut Off ACORN Housing Funding - Political News - FOXNews.com

FOXNews.com
Monday, September 14, 2009

Senate Votes to Cut Off ACORN Housing Funding

The amendment, offered by Sen. Mike Johanns, passed in a vote of 83 to 7 and prohibits the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now from receiving funds from the current Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. It marks the third time this year Republicans tried to block the organization from federal funding.

The Senate voted to cut off ACORN Housing funds following the release of three videotapes that show employees of the activist group advising a "pimp" and "prostitute" on how to break the law.
The amendment, offered by Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns, passed in a vote of 83 to 7 and prohibits the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now from receiving funds from the current Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. It marks the third time this year Republicans tried to block the organization from federal funding.
The latest vote comes on the heels of the release of hidden-camera videos showing workers in three separate ACORN housing offices apparently helping a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute evade the IRS and apply for an illegal housing loan for a brothel.
ACORN Housing Corporation received $1.6 million to provide housing services to low-income communities in this fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, according to USASpending.gov, a federal government Web site for tracking government grants.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development Grants has given $8.2 million to ACORN in the years between 2003 and 2006, as well as $1.6 million to ACORN affiliates.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the offices shown in the videos had received any of ACORN's federal grant money for housing services.

From a repeat thread. Thanks Scutter.

 

[5.56'aholic]

i have a sinking feeling that this will be dealt with quickly, without mercy and then swept under the rug to prevent those in the lower ranks from implicating higher up officials and bring the house of lies crashing down.

 

[JcJ]

A large roadside sign for a Bownsburg business this evening on Rt. 267 read in great big letters,


"The Acorn doesn't fall far from the tree"

I will stop in tomorrow to show my support of the business.

 

[haldir]

I just have the cynical feeling that BHO, the community organizer in chief will find other ways to siphon money to them Remember ACORN is a large umbrella over top of other groups. Are they going to cut off all the affiliated groups?