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Little-Acorn
09-14-2009, 06:55 PM
ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer funds since 1994.

No more.

It looks like the gravy train is about to be cut off.

The Left has never been able to stand people finding out what they're really doing. I guess some things never change.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/14/AR2009091402849.html

Senate votes to deny funds to ACORN

by ANDREW TAYLOR
The Associated Press
Monday, September 14, 2009; 6:50 PM

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.

Mr. P
09-14-2009, 07:16 PM
It's a start! :clap:

Joyful HoneyBee
09-14-2009, 07:36 PM
It's a start!

I second that emotion! :clap:

No1tovote4
09-14-2009, 08:05 PM
This is good news indeed.

emmett
09-14-2009, 08:38 PM
They'll wiggle out of it! Watch and see. Let's see:

It was a witch hunt.

There was too much right sided media bius proving once again we need a fairness doctrine.

Only the employees were guilty, not the organization. Why they moved quickly to dispatch those involved which demonstrates their commitment to honest work.

Its a Republican Conspiracy

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avatar4321
09-14-2009, 10:08 PM
Which 7 voted against it? and which 10 didnt vote??

Little-Acorn
09-15-2009, 12:20 AM
Which 7 voted against it? and which 10 didnt vote??
Voting against:

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)

DragonStryk72
09-15-2009, 12:34 AM
I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that the seven in question have received campaign contributions from ACORN?

fj1200
09-15-2009, 08:12 AM
Voting against:

Roland Burris (D-IL)
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Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)


Those two are unlikely to be Senators past the next election cycle anyway... and that vote won't help.

namvet
09-15-2009, 09:16 AM
their under investigation for the voter fraud. that's what's really important !!!! otherwise its 1 Osama after another