Posted on 09/17/2009 5:16:00 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
Radio News:
Atlanta radio station WSB (a Boortz station) announced at 8:00 PM news that the state of Gergia will defund all ACORN activities, and will not allow any ACORN contracts to use state funds next year (fiscal year 2010).
Existing state ACORN contracts will expire September 30, and will not be renewed.
I think Fast Eddie is going to do this any time now here in PA/sarc
Check with your local United Way!
Good for Georgia!
I don’t think Pennsylvania will do anything. ACORN thugs helped elect Governor “Fast Eddie” Rendell. He owes them big time.
Likewise our pantywaist Senator Robert Casey Jr. He was one of the seven who refused to vote for defunding ACORN. He owes his office to all those dead Philadephians who were resurrected by ACORN to vote for him.
HAH! You beat me to it by two seconds.
I have a theory that the ACORN employees took lessons from Fast Eddie.
Who knows? Perhaps there’s a Philly video?
I live in NY, I suspect gov paterson will turn a blind eye to this..........
WOOOHOOOOO
Call and fax. I faxed RINO Charlie Crist in FL. He is useless.
I am calling state legislators in the AM.
My state is probably getting them engraved name plates and new clothes. (MI)
I’m amazed that Mark Schauer voted in favor of defunding them today.
Texas AG confirms ACORN probe
By Mike Ward | Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 03:11 PM
Attorney General Greg Abbott is investigating the Texas activities of the advocacy group ACORN, an aide confirmed this afternoon.
“We are investigating various aspects of ACORN activities in Texas,” Abbott spokesman Jerry Strickland said in an e-mail. “However, because of that ongoing inquiry, we are unable to comment further at this time.”
In New York, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo earlier today announced a state investigation into allegations against ACORN in a Brooklyn office.
Strickland declined comment on whether Abbott’s investigation was new or an inquiry that had been going on previously.
ACORN is embroiled in a national controversy over hidden-camera videos released by conservative activists posing as a prostitute and a pimp showing ACORN employees in four cities advising them to lie about her profession and launder her earnings to receive housing assistance.
The U.S. Senate has voted to cut off Department of Housing and Urban Development funding to the group, House Republicans are calling for an FBI probe and Texas politicians have joined the calls for a thorough review of all government funding to ACORN.
Several Texas lawmakers had called Tuesday for a state investigation into ACORN’s Texas activities, and whether it receives state funding. R.J. DeSilva, a spokesman for Comptroller Susan Comb, said the organization received no state funding in 2008 or 2009.
In Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley, the group has been active in recent years in assisting low- and moderate-income Texans with mortgage foreclosures and tax advice, and assistance with FEMA claims and citizenship issues, voter registration and coping with high summer electric bills.
Late this afternoon, ACORN officials announced they have temporarily suspended intakes into some programs and are undertaking an independent review of the allegations brought forth by the controversy.
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Of course there’s a video.
You have to go and get it from those two Black Panther thugs who guard the polling place.
Georgia has one contract with ACORN that is set to expire at the end of the month. big deal.
What about the other off-shoot groups? Why isn’t anyone listing those groups?
NOW LETS LOOK INTO THE WHITE HOUSE CONNECTIONS TO ACORN
(you KNOW they would be sayng that Bush PERSONALLY ordered them to fund underage whorehouses if he was in office)
I suspect NY is actively trying to find jobs in state gov’t for all the fired ACORN workers nationwide. NY democrats live for organizations like ACORN.
We need to push this in our states.Maybe start a national movement.
NY too... I just assumed Paterson would make up the difference.
I hope Governor Perry makes announcement soon to impound any money allocated to ACORN. The Texas legislature doesn’t meet for another regular session till 2011.
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