WASHINGTON -- 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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American Communist Opposing (a) Repulic Nation...ACORN
ReplyDeleteWhat about the 371 subsidieries of ACORN?
ReplyDeleteI bet they are still receiving money
What gets me is the attitude of the liberals and progressives in this country.
ReplyDeleteThe Progressives hate that corporate CEOs collect large salaries from thier even larger corporations, but those same progressives think it's okay for a corrupt group like ACORN to pay it's top people very large sums of money, and ACORN produces NOTHING. ACORN just sucks up tax money and campaigns for Dumbocrats
Among the seven senators that voted no were the two from Illinois, the new woman from New York and most telling, the socialist Senator Bernie Sanders.
ReplyDeleteA step in the right direction ,
ReplyDeletewe don't need to be supporting
the Hoes of the country.
Yesterday NEA gave a huge sum to ACORN.
ReplyDelete8:36 What/who are those 371 sources of income?
Rep. Roscoe Barlett is calling for ACORN probe.
ReplyDeleteAnother video is scheduled for release today, even more damaging to ACORN.
I'd be interested to know which ones vote against this. I think that would tell people a lot.
ReplyDeleteI know, I could probably look it up somewhere.
How is Bertha Lewis going to sue Fox? I wonder where that money is coming from. They claim the tapes had been doctored if so why did they fire those employees?
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