Posted on 09/14/2009 3:46:38 PM PDT by Lou Budvis
Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced an amendment to the HUD and Transportation appropriation bill to strip ACORN of all federal funding. A week ago, Johanns wouldn’t have gotten the amendment to the floor. Today, however, after three straight days of BigGovernment.com’s video exposés of ACORN offices in Washington DC, New York City, and Baltimore offering assistance to pimping, tax evasion, and trafficking in underage Salvadorean girls, Johanns not only got his vote — but he got an impressive bipartisan showing. The Senate passed the Johanns amendment 83-7. At the beginning of the vote, it appeared that Democrats might resist. Initially, a half-dozen Democrats cast votes in opposition to the amendment. A few more cast votes against it as the rest of the Senate voted, but the tide appeared to shift. More and more Democrats signed onto the amendment, and votes started changing. One male voice could be heard in the chamber saying, “I want to change my vote!” Among those who changed their votes: Tom Udall (D-NM), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Herb Kohl (D-WI).
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I hadn’t thought of it in your terms of drip, drip, drip, but I think you’re so right on all counts.
Whole heartedly agree. The two “actors” deserve all the success they can possibly handle. They’re HEROES! They’re PATRIOTS!
I meant gov’t funding from our taxes. They are cutting HOUSING funding, I want all funds to ACORN, no matter which division stopped.
AMAZING! In a brilliant sting that exposes the workings of the corrupt inner city Acorn cesspool, pulled of by a PREACHERS DAUGHTER dressed as PROSTITUTE and a 25 year old film maker.
The MSM is silent, nevertheless, Beck, Breitbart, the Bloggers, and Viral Videos overwhelm the biased reporting. Enough to get the US Senate to vote to withhold Acorn funding...Long way to go, but, THE HEAT IS ON!
* 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)"
It just must give the Democrat voters in Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont and Rhode Island the warm and fuzzies to know that their Senators support the trafficking, debasement, and rape of teen aged girls.
Obama: "These are my people.
This is where I come from."
Political expediency. I hope ya all crush them. What an improvement that would be. Good Luck!
Thought that ACORN changed it’s name to COI. Does COI now get the ACORN Federal Funding?
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