Posted on 09/14/2009 4:39:39 PM PDT by BAW
WASHINGTON (AP) – 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.
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drudge had sirens earlier, now the story is gone from his site???? what gives?
Hope the so-called bill says: ACORN and all associated organizations.
Discoverthenetwork.org in Oct 2008 said ACORN operated as many as 294 front groups. Are they still elgible for this housing funding?
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968
What about Bammy’s alma mater and front, Project Vote? Anita Moncrief might shed some light on them...don’t they have about three hundred organizations feeding out of the trough?
It’s all Glenn Beck’s fault!
That "Pimp" and "Prostitute" are true AMERICAN HEROS!!!
Now, what is the name of the "NEW" ACORN?
Why isn’t this on Foxnews yet????
Voting NO............
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)
We need to get our personal freedoms and states rights back as dictated in the Constitution.
God Bless the young man and woman.
The A team ?
Legally, does this include COI, ACORN’s new alias?
Good start, but I think Justice needs to take a look at every single loan applications these fools have ever touched. We are looking at the tip of the iceberg here and there is no telling how bad this really is.
Some true Americans without political bones in their bodies they are NOT!
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)
2 dimwits not voting and 7 repubs.
It doesn't!
SA 2355. Mr. JOHANNS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 3288, making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
After section 414, insert the following:
Sec. 4__. None of the funds made available under this Act may be directly or indirectly distributed to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Whether the gubmint knows all of the 300 odd entities tied to ACORN or that ACORN has already changed its name is another matter.
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