Posted on 09/16/2009 4:46:18 PM PDT by AuntB
As ACORN grapples with a scandal that in recent days has led the Census Bureau to sever ties and the Senate to block housing funding , other groups with similar stated goals are left to wonder how the fallout might affect them.
But the group is on its heels after conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos ....
The Senate voted 83-7 Monday to block Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN.
....Housing and Urban Development Department ... provides funding to 25 groups that, like ACORN, have a national profile and similar goals. Among these groups are ******* Catholic Charities, National Council of La Raza and the National Council on Aging.******
Analysts on poverty and welfare said they believe the scandal will have little impact on these groups....
If Congress blocked funding to ACORN, "it's going to go someplace else," he said. "But that someplace else won't be that much different from ACORN."
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.
ACORN received $1.6 million of federal funding for its housing services in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
Rector said the government spends more than $700 billion a year assisting low-income people, including cash, housing, food and medical care. "And we have no idea where that money goes," he said. Of that amount, $70 billion goes to what he called "amorphous" social service programs.
"To the extent of what you're seeing, when people see the ACORN operations and the recognition of the closeness of ties between Obama and ACORN, it's a symbol of the overall incompetence of the welfare state."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
This is the best explanation I've seen!
from the article:
But Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation and an expert on welfare and poverty said these community organizing networks "basically get paid to make noise" and "serve as a clearinghouse for moving government money around."
Can you imagine the reaction if there was a white charity named “the race?”
all of thew other groups with ACORN and La Raza should be closed down and those brothers need to be looked at by the feds with out bozo and his clan trying to stop them
I’d get a real tingle up my leg if that brave couple had targeted La Ratsa, too!
Rotten Apples? They are a bunch of criminals
Where else are they throwing my money away?
Unlike ACORN, La Raza only talks to those who are of “the race”.
I don’t think that the intrepid duo would be allowed in any of their offices.
Criminals who are rotten.
Rector said the government spends more than $700 billion a year assisting low-income people, including cash, housing, food and medical care.
“And we have no idea where that money goes,”
That is just beyond belief.
Imagine if Glenn Spencer or CCIR or FAIR or SaveOurState or NumbersUSA - all patriotic groups and people trying to uphold our laws and sovereignty - had gotten even a fraction of that kind of money.
The seditionists would have been screaming so loud it would have woken up Harry Byrd.
Good, La Raza is filled with a bunch of communist haters. They do not represent any Hispanic, except for liberal hispanics that hate everything about their culture.
Let’s hope that the enterprising pair of film makers infiltrated La Raza, another racist group feasting on taxpayer’s hard-earned money.
The question that should be asked is “What has the community gained from money given to ACORN?”
Amazing
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La Raza is also finacially supported by many corporations and tax-exempt foundations (listed on the Discover the Networks.org). Among them:
American Express Foundation, AT&T Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Verizon Foundation.
NOTE WELL Between 2001 and 2003, the Ford Foundation gave La Raza about $9.83 million, with one grant alone totaling $8.05 million and has also assisted invaders to setup legal groups that are suing Americans.
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ACTION PROJECT
The SEC and the IRS should be notified about tax-exempt foundations in collusion with La Raza to use tax-exempt money to facilitate the violation of state and federal laws (a felony).
CONTACT THE SEC EMAIL enforcement@SEC.gov
PHONE THE IRS TOLL FREE 1-800-829-0433 You may remain anonymous if you wish.
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REFERENCE
National Council of La Raza Headquarters
Raul Yzaguirre Building
1126 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel. (202) 785-1670
Fax (202) 776-1792
La Raza also has offces in Atlanta, Chicago, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Long Beach, New York, Phoenix, San Antonio, Puerto Rico
Atlanta Program Office Tel. (404) 658-1711 Fax (404) 420-3233
Chicago Program Office Tel. (3121) 269-9250 Fax (3121) 269-9260
Long Beach-Center for Latino and Community Health Tel. (562) 985-5242 Fax (562) 985-5048
Los Angeles Program Office Tel. (213) 489-3428 Fax (213) 489-1167
New York Office Tel. (212) 260-7070 Fax (212) 260-7039
Phoenix Program Office Tel. (602) 417-1400 Fax (602) 252-0315
Puerto Rico Program Office Tel. (787) 641-0546 Fax (787) 641-0545 nclr-pr@nclr.org
Sacramento Policy Office Tel. (916) 448-9852 Fax (916) 448-9823
San Antonio Program Office Tel. (210) 212-4454 Fax (210) 212-4459
How about this GOP Reps and Senators:
NO TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR ANY NON PROFIT GROUPS!!!
Let them stand or fall on their own merits. This would go a long way toward rebuilding trust in government and balancing the budget, too!
Well, for whatever and how stupid this sounds. La Raza...is not racist...or is it?
Will do!
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