Posted on 09/16/2009 8:47:03 AM PDT by fiscon1
In my capacity as a citizen of Illinois, I took it upon myself to contact both Roland Burris and Dick Durbin to see why they voted to continue to fund ACORN. Senator Burris has a press release but it's not available on line. I may receive an email in a bit and then I will post it. The basic idea of the release is this. Senator Burris is deeply troubled by the allegations. He believes that there needs to be strict oversight over the group. He also believes the group should not be defined by a few "bad apples". ACORN does a lot of good work providing services to low and mid income families in the inner cities and cutting off funding would cut off that good work.
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Did I hear correctly last night that yet ANOTHER video is supposed to be released today? I thought I heard Hannah Giles say that it is close to the border and that it is even more damaging than yesterdays.
Cave dwelling media hides until ACORN thingy passes.
You heard correct. They didn’t actually say it would be worse. It would be as bad, but in a different way.
it isn’t passing. The videos come out one by one. This isn’t going away.
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