Posted on 10/16/2008 4:41:05 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Boehner Releases Analysis Showing ACORN Has Received at Least $31 Million in Federal Funding; Untold Millions More through State & Local Agencies “Taxpayers Don’t Need ACORN Either,” Boehner Says in Response to Obama
Washington, Oct 16 - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today released an analysis showing that the left-wing group ACORN, currently under investigation by the FBI for a “coordinated national scam” of voter registration fraud according to the Associated Press, has received at least $31 million in federal funding from various federal agencies since 1998. This total does not count the untold millions more that ACORN has received indirectly through state and local agencies that receive federal block grants. Boehner, who last week called for an end to federal funding of ACORN following widespread reports of voter fraud by the group, released the following statement:
“Senator Obama recently said that he doesn’t need ACORN. Well, American taxpayers don’t need ACORN either. They don’t need ACORN’s voter registration fraud, and they no longer need to support ACORN with federal funds.
“ACORN’s free ride on the backs of taxpayers must end immediately. An initial review of federal records shows ACORN affiliates have received at least $31 million in direct federal funding from American taxpayers over the past 10 years, and millions more indirectly through state and local agencies that receive federal block grants. House Republicans worked together to stop the Majority from using taxpayer dollars to fill a slush fund created just for ACORN, but now we must go further to turn off the spigot of federal grants on which ACORN depends.
“Recent revelations of voter registration fraud on a massive scale in critical states are unacceptable. ACORN’s dishonest approach to voter registration, including fraudulently registering the cartoon character Mickey Mouse, shows a brazen disrespect for the law and our system of free and fair elections. In conjunction with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and its political allies in the Democratic Party, ACORN also played a key role in creating the financial crisis that ultimately put our entire economy in peril. It’s time for us to stop forcing American taxpayers to fund the ACORN machine.”
A review of the Federal Register shows that ACORN affiliates in 11 states received more than $31 million in federal funds from 1998 to 2008.
One of the grants to an ACORN affiliate, a Jan. 17, 2007 award to ACORN Associates Inc. of Albuquerque, NM, is notable because it appears to facilitate and encourage the use of risky subprime loans, now viewed by many as a contributing factor in the recent freezing up of international credit markets. The title for the grant? “Education and Outreach Initiative/Subprime Lending Component.”
A breakdown of federal funds received by ACORN can be found here.
these guys make Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton’s shakedowns look like high school fund raisers
They’ll bury this...see page B 10.
...and they were about to receive much much more in the “bailout”. I would be interested who put the legislation in the “bailout” money for ACORN.
Hey! A Congressional Republican actually pops his head up for a second! What courage!!!
barney frank I presume
America’s one-man financial disaster
Nancy Pelosi claims they put that in the bill as a “throw away” knowing the Repubs would give it the axe.
It’s still in there isn’t it....$$$ for Acorn/La Raza, etc, in the bailout .....to the tune of 4+% on every $100,000 when a mortgage is taken out on a house.....or did it get taken out?
Cool - so the Congress will be indicted as a co-conspirator.
And that is Federal tax dollars, no telling how much more from Soros-type foundations.
I can understand why the Dems vote for this crap, but I don’t understand why the GOP does it, nor do I understand why the President signs it.
...and the Democrat whack-a-mole begins tomorrow...
Pelosi and Frank
A friend had a great idea - let the Registrar's Office operate mobile voting registration stations, sort of like "Book Mobiles". The mobile stations would travel around to different parts of the community on a schedule - just like the library's program. Everyone should be able to get registered without a problem.
We could use the millions of dollars that would have gone to ACORN and buy all the RV's that no one wants any more. Convert them to, voila, VOTE MOBILES!
END THE REGISTRATION DRIVES NOW! They are partisan and too susceptible to fraud!
This should be on Drudge
Anyone that ever voted one federal dollar to ALCORN should be tried for treason!
“do I understand why the President signs it.”
Because he’s a One world socialist!!!
BTTT!
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