Dems Vote Again to Fund Corrupt ACORN With Taxpayer Dollars
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, December 10, 2009, 5:03 AM
In March Senate Democrats voted to fund ACORN in their National Service Act by a part line vote of 53-43.
ACORN is the largest radical leftist group in America today.
This radical group worked closely with the Obama camp during the election. But, the community organizing group was not open about this. The photo below was scrubbed from the ACORN website before the election:
One of Barack Obama’s first big “community organizer” jobs involved ACORN in 1992. He has been working along side ACORN since before he became an elected official. Obama also trained ACORN employees. He represented ACORN in court. Obama worked with and protested with ACORN. His campaign donated $800,000 to ACORN in 2008 for voter registration efforts.
And, ACORN even canvassed for Obama last year.
Yesterday, Democrats voted again to fund the corrupt leftist organization ACORN.
Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) reported at Big Government:
Last night, defying the will of a bipartisan majority of the House and Senate, Democrats voted to allow the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) to receive federal taxpayer dollars.
In September, large Congressional majorities in both houses voted to sever all ties between the federal government and ACORN. The Senate vote was 85-11; the House vote was 345-75. You’d think that those votes, which USA Today described as prohibiting “any federal funding for the community organizing group,” would have settled the matter. You’d be wrong.
Months later, with the country’s focus on jobs, healthcare, and the Global War on Terror, Democrats are moving to restore funding to ACORN. Last night, Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA) offered an amendment during deliberations on the Democrats’ massive year-end appropriations bill to clarify the prohibition on federal funds going to ACORN or its subsidiaries. That amendment was shot down on a 5-9 party line vote as Republicans sided with taxpayers while Democrats stood with ACORN.
Rep. Latham’s amendment is necessary to prevent taxpayer money from going to ACORN because the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice has taken advantage of a legal loophole to allow ACORN to continue to receive federal funds – despite the passage of the House GOP’s Defund ACORN Act in the fall.
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JPL17 commented:
I’d say it’s time for another Breitbart video to drop….Hopefully a bombshell that he’s been holding back just for such an occasion….
Agent 99 commented:
The Mayor Of Atlanta Vote = The White Female lost by 714 Votes… ((ACORN))?? Norm Coleman lost by a small Vote Count too.
squeaky commented:
and of course they were able to get a clean bill
of health from scott harshberger. like consulting with a fox on how to secure the chicken coop.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/144459/acorn_inquiry_finds_nothing_illegal,_faults_bad_leadership?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternet
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non_dhimmie commented:
Soros’s money and our tax dollars have succeeded in making sure we are now a Banana Republic.
Where is Michael Steele, Cornyn, McConnell, Cantor, McLame, ANYBODY…..Oh, I know eating Acorn cookies that were served yesterday to congress…..Obama is laughing his A….off…..
squeaky commented:
most obama supporters will be the same ones wailing when the “saviour” facade has completely crumbled. while you can’t mutter one
discouraging thing about the one without being
castigated – you will now have to listen to a bunch of gasbags who will be looking for a way to distance themselves from their bad choices.
“no one told” them will be nothing more than the bleeting cry of those who should have applied some critical thinking nevermind just listening. the jackels rule washington.
keep fighting commented:
Hire more private investigators, and hold ACORN down by watching their every move.
AuntieMadder commented:
They’ve got to keep ACORN in the game because ACORN, through voter and ballot fraud, will keep them in elected office.
GEL commented:
Where can we find detailed info on the voting? My rep’s office won’t tell me a darned thing w/o exact bill / vote info (they’re hiding b/c they’re liberal dems). Thomas.gov doesn’t have info on this vote, nor the ones in Sept originally de-funding ACORN.
Agent 99 commented:
“The bottom line is that the ACORN funding prohibition language remains in the massive fiscal 2010 spending measure taken up by appropriators this week but ACORN ally Eric Holder’s Justice Department has rendered that language virtually meaningless.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404562/posts The ACORN FUNDING and The Dem Voting is embedded in the Fiscal Year Spending….. Be Back with more…. ((Good Thing the Repubs Caught it….but it did no good as Holder had it fixed))
Agent 99 commented:
“In a ruling revealed late last month by the Justice Department the Obama administration invented a loophole allowing the government to continue funding the president’s friends at ACORN. Through the magic of legal interpretation, the language forbidding funding the group was transformed by Acting Assistant Attorney General David J. Barron into a requirement not “to refuse payment on binding contractual obligations that predate” the original funding ban.
Latham’s amendment would have closed the loophole by banning funding for ACORN, including any funding covering “a contract or other agreement entered into before the date of the enactment of this or any such other Act.”
The bottom line is that the ACORN funding prohibition language remains in the massive fiscal 2010 spending measure taken up by appropriators this week but ACORN ally Eric Holder’s Justice Department has rendered that language virtually meaningless…….DEM Congress and ”’possibly CITIGROUP” See http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/10/enabling-acorns-comeback
Agent 99 commented:
Who Voted?? The Answer is in the First Paragraph….click 53-43
Sojourner commented:
George Soros, with a little help from his lefty friends, are pouring millions into hijacking our democracy in tandem with corrupt congressional dems via ACORN, SoS (Secretary of State) Project..
” The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everyting.” Joseph Stalin
See article from American Spectator:
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/04/soros-eyes-secretaries
Agent 99 commented:
Soujourner @ # 15 Thank You ….and SOROS is at Copenhagen and is very verbal ….Says USA must give more money….. (posted the link under the Al Gore Video of the Poem))
Sly from Michigan commented:
I finally have the names (took me forever!). The United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, The Judiciary, District of Columbia is a Congressional subcommittee of the United States House Committee on Appropriations.
They have jurisdiction:
• (1) Department of ;
• (2) Department of Transportation;
• (3) Department of the Treasury;
• (4) District of Columbia;
• (5) The judiciary;
• (6) United States Postal Service
• (7) Executive Office of the President
• (8) Independent agencies
• (9) General Provisions, Government-wide
The members are:
Majority
• John Olver, Massachusetts, Chairman
• Ed Pastor, Arizona
• Ciro Rodriguez, Texas
• Marcy Kaptur, Ohio
• David Price, North Carolina
• Lucille Roybal-Allard, California
• Marion Barry, Arkansas
• Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Michigan
Ex officio
• David Obey, Wisconsin
Minority
• Tom Latham, Iowa, Ranking Member
• Frank R. Wolf, Virginia
• John Carter, Texas
• Steve LaTourette, Ohio
Ex officio
• Jerry Lewis, California