Posted on 02/06/2009 8:30:54 PM PST by neverdem
“Economic Stimulus” Designed to Aid Anti-gun Radicals
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the far left anti-gun group under investigation for voter fraud, could be eligible to receive millions, if not billions of dollars from the economic bailout bill that passed out of the House of Representatives yesterday.
ACORN was an aggressive supporter of Barack Obama who had served as the group’s legal counsel and even trained ACORN in “community organizing” in the presidential election. The Obama campaign even paid the group $800,000 for “voter turnout,” the very activities that came under scrutiny by the FBI.
In October 2008, ACORN’s Las Vegas office was raided by law enforcement agents investigating voter registration fraud. According to the Nevada Secretary of State’s office, voter information submitted by the group included nonexistent names, false addresses, duplicate filings and even the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.
In addition to turning in massive amounts of fraudulent voter registration forms leading up to the 2008 elections, ACORN is also involved in anti-Second Amendment activism. For instance, a New Jersey ACORN chapter supported a one-gun-a-month ordinance in Jersey City, a law that was struck down last year by an appeals court for violating the State’s preemption law.
This group should not be eligible to receive one penny of your tax money, yet ACORN has received over $28 million in taxpayer dollars in 2008 alone and over $53 million since 1994. Last year, some members of Congress were able to strip ACORN money from the home mortgage industry bailout bill, but it was reinserted into the current legislation.
The total amount of money for which groups like ACORN would be eligible in the bill is $4.2 billion, under a provision for “neighborhood stabilization activities.” According to the bill, the money can be utilized by state and local governments and also “nonprofit entities or consortia of nonprofit entities.”
ACORN can possibly collect more money under this legislation that it has over the past 15 years, and you can bet that ACORN is expert at accessing those funds.
Another group that could benefit from the bailout bill is MoveOn.org, an organization that has advocated for sweeping gun control laws.
According to Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican, “MoveOn.org’s civic action committee could receive stimulus funds such as money earmarked for energy ‘activities’, since MoveOn.org lists one of its goals to ‘reduce America's dependence on oil.’”
Pro-gun Senator David Vitter (R-LA) sees the bill as “payoff” for the liberal interest groups that helped to put Barack Obama in the White House, and that some provisions in the bill were actually written with specific interest groups in view.
Sen. Vitter told FOX News that the bill “is a payoff for that political activity in last year’s election, particularly with the fraudulent voter registration drives,” Sen. Vitter said.
The bottom line is that the only thing this bill will “stimulate” is attacks against your gun rights by leftist anti-gun groups. Supporters of the Second Amendment must take action now to see that such funding provisions are stripped from the misnamed stimulus package.
The bailout measure passed out of the House of Representatives by a vote of 244-188 and now heads to the Senate, where Senators have been working on their own version of the bill.
ACTION: Please use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center to send your Senators the pre-written e-mail message below.
- Prewritten Letter -
Dear Senator:
It’s pretty outrageous that the so-called stimulus bill is slated to give $4.2 billion to an organization that was raided by law enforcement agents investigating voter registration fraud. Not only that, this organization according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s office submitted voter information which included nonexistent names, false addresses, duplicate filings and even the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.
The group is of course ACORN, which stands to reap this windfall in the spending bill under a provision for “neighborhood stabilization activities.”
In addition to turning in massive amounts of fraudulent voter registration forms leading up to the 2008 elections, ACORN is also involved in anti-Bill of Rights activism. For instance, a New Jersey ACORN chapter supported a one-gun-a-month ordinance in Jersey City, a law that was struck down last year by an appeals court for violating the State’s preemption law.
This group (and other groups such as MoveOn.org) should not be eligible to receive one penny of my tax money, yet ACORN has received over $28 million in taxpayer dollars in 2008 alone and over $53 million since 1994.
I urge you to remove this money from the bill. Otherwise, please vote against it in its entirety.
Sincerely,
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This stimulas bill is nothing more than an idealogical wish list and it heavily targets lib orgs and unions. Obama is a community organizer, so it’s logical for him to payoff these types of orgs.
The far left confuses Indoctrination with education!
Quoting Our Fearless Leader:
“THAT’S THE POINT!!!”
Sadly you are correct. Fairness Doctrine is next.
cw2
We all gasped at the mega-scandal of the "Oil For Food" fiasco as the largest in world history, but this is now dwarfing that blotch on all of history!!!
I am 61 years old, but not afraid of a bunch of leftie whimps.
Give him 6 months, either he will blink, or it will get hot.
First open attempt at a gun grab will trigger it.
LOL!
I think we need to demand to know what Snowe, Collins and Specter are getting in return, then we need to demand the RNC and RNSC start supporting someone like Toomey to go up against Specter... AND they need to go over the PA voter rolls so ACORN cannot help Spector steal the election next year like I believe Obama did in November as well as people like Murtha.
This whole thing is sickening. Lord, please help these four years pass quickly.
Too late...the just voted to let Acorn have money from the bill tonight. They voted against keeping Acorn out of it at about 11:30PM EST.
Email your senators now, and call them on Monday, and tell them to throw this entire bill OUT!
So why do any rinos sign on to a bill aimed to defeat them?
And how do the Libs. to stick together and we can not.
I just read an AP story which says no vote expected until Monday.
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