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THE 75 CONGRESSIONAL NUTS WHO VOTED TO CONTINUE TAXPAYER FUNDING TO ACORN
THE FREEDOM POST ^ | September 18, 2009 | The Capitalist

Posted on 09/18/2009 2:13:02 PM PDT by TheFreedomPoster

After five undercover videos highlighting scathingly illegal activities from community organizer, ACORN, the House of Representatives voted yesterday to de-fund ACORN, 345-75. Amazingly, considering the seriousness of the corruption that was uncovered by the BIGGOVERNMENT.COM videos, there are still 75 representatives in the House that voted to continue funding ACORN with taxpayer dollars.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 111th; acorn; congress; federalspending; fundingtheleft; rollcall
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1 posted on 09/18/2009 2:13:02 PM PDT by TheFreedomPoster
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To: TheFreedomPoster

All 75 are democrats and 12 are from California (my home state). Here is a list of the Californians on the list:

Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.
Bob Filner, D-Calif.
Mike Honda, D-Calif
Barbara Lee, D-Calif.
Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif.
Linda Sánchez, D-Calif.
Brad Sherman, D-Calif.
Pete Stark, D-Calif.
Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
Diane Watson, D-Calif.
Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif.


2 posted on 09/18/2009 2:21:50 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: TheFreedomPoster
I don't want to post the entire member list of the House Progressive Caucus, but it basically matches the list of those who support ACORN.

http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?ContentID=166&ParentID=0&SectionID=4&SectionTree=4&lnk=b&ItemID=164

3 posted on 09/18/2009 2:22:21 PM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: TheFreedomPoster

Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc.
Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.
Robert Brady D-Pa.
Corrine Brown, D-Fla.
G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C.
Mike Capuano, D-Mass.
Andre Carson, D-Ind.
Kathy Castor, D-Fla.
Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo.
James Clyburn, D-S.C.
Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y.
Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
Danny Davis, D-Ill.
Diane DeGette, D-Colo.
Bill Delahunt, D-Mass.
Mike Doyle, D-Pa.
Donna Edwards, D-Md.
Keith Ellison, D-Minn.
Eliot Engel, D-N.Y.
Chaka Fattah, D-Pa.
Bob Filner, D-Calif.
Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio
Al Green, D-Tex.
Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz.
Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y.
Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii
Rush Holt, D-N.J.
Mike Honda, D-Calif.Jesse Jackson, Jr. D-Ill.
Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Tex.
Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Tex.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich.
Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio
Rick Larsen, D-Wash.
Barbara Lee, D-Calif.
John Lewis, D-Ga.
Stephen Lynch, D-Mass.
Markey, D-Mass.
Betty McCollum, D-Minn.
McDermott, D-Wash.
McGovern, D-Mass.
Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.
Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va.
Gwen Moore, D-Wisc.
Jim Moran, D-Va.
Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.
Richard Neal, D-Mass.
John Olver, D-Mass.
Frank Pallone, D-N.J.
Bill Pascrell, D-N.J.
Donald Payne, D-N.J.
Jared Polis, D-Colo.
David Price, D-N.C.
Nick Rahall, D-W.Va.
Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y.
Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif.
Bobby Rush, D-Ill.Linda Sánchez, D-Calif.Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.
David Scott D-Ga.
Bobby Scott, D-Va.
Jose Serrano, D-N.Y.
Brad Sherman, D-Calif.
Albio Sires, D-N.J.
Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y.
Pete Stark, D-Calif.
Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.
Niki Tsongas, D-Mass.
Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y.
Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
Diane Watson, D-Calif.
Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
Robert Wexler, D-Fla.
Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif.


4 posted on 09/18/2009 2:22:25 PM PDT by sassy steel magnolia (USAF life and Navy wife...God Bless the USA!)
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To: TheFreedomPoster

75 enemies of the USA.

We will remember them when TSHTF!


5 posted on 09/18/2009 2:22:54 PM PDT by devistate one four (Back by popular demand: America love or leave it (GTFOOMC) TET68)
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To: Earthdweller

*Andre Carson ping*


6 posted on 09/18/2009 2:24:49 PM PDT by nodumbblonde (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: ransomnote

Before being “represented” by Waxman, I used to be in Dan Rostenkowski’s district.


7 posted on 09/18/2009 2:30:23 PM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: mgstarr

Green, Johnson, and Lee from Texas, all ultra-left socialists, funded by ACORN. How do you tell an honest politician? They stay bought.


8 posted on 09/18/2009 2:34:17 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: sassy steel magnolia
Robert Wexler, D-Fla.

I think I heard something about him having a thing for drugs and prostitutes...

9 posted on 09/18/2009 2:41:46 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (Liberals are always one genocide away from Utopia.)
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To: angkor

Can you say “Safe District”?


10 posted on 09/18/2009 2:45:44 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (NEXT: Sting ACORN on Voter Registration.)
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To: TheFreedomPoster
They obviously support child sex slavery.

ACORN Prostitution Scam Moves to Brooklyn
Now, I guess, we know what a community organizer does, because today we learned, an ACORN Brothel Grows in Brooklyn.
When we last saw our fake pimp and hooker, they were in our nation's capitol trying to
find out how ACORN would deal with people looking for a home mortgage so they can open open up a brothel using under-aged girls. "


"US ACORN SCANDAL: International Press Roundup (RUSSIA); Balt. Libs Recommend to Establish Brothel.

Liberal Benefactors in Baltimore gave recommendations to establish a brothel
В США опубликован видеоролик с участием сотрудников либеральной некоммерческой
организации, которые с энтузиазмом дают советы по организации противозаконного бизнеса -
детской проституции. In the United States published a video with the participation of staff of the liberal non-profit organization,
who enthusiastically give advice on the organization of an illegal business - child prostitution.
Как передает CNN, запись сделана двумя консервативными активистами,
один из которых изображал сутенера, а другая - проститутку.
According to CNN, entry was made by two conservative activist, one of which
depicted the pimp and the other - a prostitute.
Объектом успешной провокации стала влиятельная Ассоциация местных
организаций за немедленные реформы (ACORN)."



"ACORN SCANDAL: International Press Roundup (MEXICO) Girls
from Mexico/E.S. to U.S. for Prostitution
"Trabajo encubierto exhibe ilícitos de empleados de la ACORN;
Llevan a EU niñas de México y El Salvador para prostituirlas"
They have girls from Mexico to the United States and El Salvador for Prostitution
Antonio Heras Antonio Heras Corresponsal Correspondent Mexicali, BC, 17 de
septiembre. Mexicali, BC, Sept. 17. An undercover work done by Hannah Giles and
James O'Keefe, activists, human rights advocates, revealed illegal actions of
employees of the Association of Community Organizations for the New Reform
(ACORN, for its acronym in English), who advise the import United States of girls
from Mexico and El Salvador for prostitution in the neighboring country and profit
from it.

The ACORN, nongovernmental organization dedicated to the support of migrants and
highly marginalized people to acquire home ownership in the U.S., announced it will
initiate an independent investigation to determine responsibilities of its employees."


"ACORN SCANDAL: International Press Roundup (NORWAY): "Obama-Support Group Helps Fake Whore/Pimp" "Obama-Støttegruppe Felt Av Falsk Hore Og Hhallik"
a video camera has revealed how people in the U.S. umbrella organization Acorn has
been willing to provide support to illegal projects.
Obama-aid Lobby group, which supports low-and middle-income groups in the housing
wage and tax issues, was under the election campaign last year, accused of election
fraud after a sub-organization had a mission to register voters worth 800 000 dollars
for Obama. "


"Unearthed! Obama's twisted ACORN roots
"Obama's task was to help far South Side residents press for improvement," the Times article explained. "


"The E. F. Hutton of Prostitution: When ACORN Talks, Pimps and Hookers Listen.
The radical activist group ACORN is the E. F. Hutton of prostitution. It stands ready to provide discreet advice
on setting up a brothel and engaging in other, associated acts of criminality. When ACORN talks, pimps and hookers listen.
In Baltimore, ACORN staff assured O’Keefe and Giles that the group doesn’t “discriminate” — i.e., has no standards whatsoever.
Giles is told if she makes $96,000 a year selling sex, she should tell the government she only makes $9,600.
O’Keefe notes that they want a house for 13 underage girls who will be imported from El Salvador to work as prostitutes.
Only three — not all 13 — of the girls can be listed as dependents, ACORN prudently advises. "


"ACORN Prostitution Scandal:San Bernardino VIDEO This Time W/Politicians and Murder
When we last saw our fake pimp and hooker, they were in Brooklyn, with the usual scenario,
trying to find out how ACORN would deal with people looking for a home mortgage
so they can open open up a brothel using under-aged girls.

Today's stop is San Bernardino, California. In this Acorn office we find out the woman who runs the office is also a poll dancer
who may turn tricks on the side. ACORN's is supposedly non political but acording to Teresa,
the woman on the tape helping the pair, she speaks with Congressman and Senators every day because
she is lobbying for the Obamacare bill. She names Barbara "Call Me Senator "Boxer and Senator McCleod,
and 62nd district Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter as people with whom she deals.
Theresa says that “Eden’s” prostitution money would be an asset to James in his quest to become a Senator or Representative.
Also the person who was helping the alter egos of James O' Keefe and Hannah Giles with the prostitution scam
also talks about how she first planned the cover-up then shot and killed her husband."


James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles visited one of ACORN’s New York offices in August,
where they picked up handy tips on how to lie on housing forms to cover up a prostitution business
(”Honesty is not going to get you the house,” one ACORN official advises) and how to hide cash
from their illicit business (”When you buy the house with the backyard, you get a tin…
and you bury it down in there…cover it…and put the grass over it…”).

In 1994 the ACORN Housing Corporation (AHC) was awarded a $1.1 million grant
by AmeriCorps, a program of the Corporation for National Service (CNS). The money was intended
to fund the training of 42 AmeriCorps members in 13 cities. The workers were expected to identify
low-income families hoping to purchase a first home, to assist them in finding suitable housing, and to
advise them in securing the necessary financing.

AHC’s initial subterfuge pales in comparison to the illegal fundraising scheme it subsequently operated,
using its AmeriCorps grant to increase ACORN’s membership.
According to Jordan, one ACORN member in the Dallas regional office stated that “the only reason
for having the AmeriCorps program was to gain new ACORN members, and that if AmeriCorps loan
counseling clients did not start becoming ACORN members, she could and would halt the AmeriCorps project.”
Jordan found that this understanding was not limited to the Dallas office.
Using government funds to solicit membership in an organization that— like ACORN—participates in
direct political advocacy is a violation of federal guidelines."


"ACORN: Big Apple, Big Pimping (another shoe drops)
It was just a fluke, ACORN insisted the first time that James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles
published their undercover video showing their office in Baltimore helping a pimp evade taxes
and get a mortgage by deceit for a brothel. They fired a couple of “bad apples” in that office,
and a couple of more bad apples in Washington DC when that office got caught on hidden camera
doing the same thing. In fact. ACORN went so far as to brag that the pair had tried the same thing
and failed in “San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to name a few places.”"

11 posted on 09/18/2009 2:53:09 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: TheFreedomPoster

What happened to Super Liberal Oregon? They voted “Nay”? There may be hope for this state after all... A slight “Red” shift..


12 posted on 09/18/2009 2:56:23 PM PDT by Birdsbane ("Onward through the fog!" ... Oat Willie)
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To: Onelifetogive

re: Wexler (D-Florida):

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2E4NjVhNzQ5OWQ4ZWQwMGQxYzA4NDQ3NGMyYWJlYjY=

Sunshine on Wexler
A portrait of the “most ethical Congress ever.”

By Mark Hemingway

lots more comments on Wexler from back in Nov 08...


13 posted on 09/18/2009 3:10:03 PM PDT by sassy steel magnolia (USAF life and Navy wife...God Bless the USA!)
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To: TheFreedomPoster; FlingWingFlyer; altair; stephenjohnbanker; youturn; little jeremiah; ...
ACORN Ping!

FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.


14 posted on 09/18/2009 3:11:54 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: sassy steel magnolia
Thanks for the list. I called my rep's office this afternoon to ask how he voted. They said he voted to stop funding.

I said, "Well, he finally did something right". The screener was not amused.

15 posted on 09/18/2009 3:24:21 PM PDT by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: ransomnote
All 75 are democrats and 12 are from California (my home state).

These are clearly democrats who want to cease being politicians and take up becoming ACORN community organization work. Voters should definitely give them their wish and vote them out of office so they can achieve their goal.

16 posted on 09/18/2009 3:26:36 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: sassy steel magnolia

Just for fun, I crossed your list with the list of Congressional Black Caucus members.

If I counted correctly, 28 of the 75 were from the CBC.
There are 41 CBC members in the House.

So, the CBC makes up only 10% of the total available votes in the House... but CBC made up 38% of the “I prefer to continue funding corruption” vote.

And 68% of CBC members voted to continue corruption. Whereas only 17% of all Representatives thought corruption is a good idea.

These are FACTS. Can facts be racist, I wonder?


17 posted on 09/18/2009 3:50:44 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: mombonn

bet you weren’t the only one calling your representative!


18 posted on 09/18/2009 3:51:16 PM PDT by sassy steel magnolia (USAF life and Navy wife...God Bless the USA!)
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To: Nervous Tick

nice work! Keep it going, even if they start mud-slinging. I think they like to use that tactic to get us off target. Facts are facts...


19 posted on 09/18/2009 3:55:08 PM PDT by sassy steel magnolia (USAF life and Navy wife...God Bless the USA!)
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To: sassy steel magnolia

“reverend” Emmanuel Cleaver is my congress-critter, and he is on the list...

I’ll have to call his office on Monday and ask him where the Acorn brothel is set up in KC... But only if the girls are “of age” and legal citizens, or aliens with green cards. I don’t want to be supporting illegal aliens or underage prostitutes with my “whore mongering” funds.

You know, at least pimps and prostitutes, like those protrayed by those very brave kids, are more honest than our government...

Mark


20 posted on 09/18/2009 4:41:39 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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