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 on 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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Related:
ACORN Story Grows But Mainstream Media Refuse to Cover It
Updates:
11:47 am EDT, September 15th, 2009 — ACORN = RICO
12:06 pm EDT, September 15th, 2009 — House GOP to call for total cutoff of federal funds to ACORN
The mainstream media can go piss up a rope. Fox is and will continue to do ALL of the heavy lifting when it comes to informing the American public, and everybody else for that matter. A modern day David and Goliath media ratings scenario playing out right before our eyes if there ever was one and the rest of the MSM are too agenda focused or too stupid to realize it. Probably both.
Beck is promising more fireworks today, perhaps another tape of Acorn corruption? The fact that they managed to so successfully expose Acorn for what it does in the first video was remarkable.
But what was really brilliant is that they managed to do it so many times and did not show their hand.
No matter how bad the first (and what was thought to be the only) tape , Acorn and the MSM were confident they could swat these two aside.
Second tape forced them into full damage control mode and took them off the offense a bit.
Third tape and they have Acorn and the MSM completely disoriented(and you can just hear the backroom conversations – WTF how many of these things to they have?)
This promised fourth tape must now have them in official pants pissing mode.
As brilliant as the tapes were, its the release strategy that is going to hang Acorn and the MSM.
I had to LOL when the two amateur slueths were interviewed and asked if we could expect anymore tapes to be released. Their answer “maybe, maybe not” undoubtedly caused spontaneous involuntary bowel movements across America amongst so many in the ‘yes we can’ crowd. By coincidence, while I was watching a live report from outside the White House this morning I could have sworn I saw a 3 ton Proctor & Gamble delivery truck pulling into the driveway in the background? Naw……couldn’t have been.
As promised Beck has another sting tape this time on the other coast in San Bernardina, and it is just as if not more explosive than the first three. Only caught the first hour of his radio show, so missed some.
Definitely tuning in to Beck on Fox tonight. Also Breitbarts biggovernment.com has all the details.
Watched it and Beck picked a poor victim. She’s built like a brick shithouse and I never heard a word she said as she wiggled her ass around and flipped her hooters.
Entertaining but Beck missed it all. We’ll see how it goes in the days ahead.
I know — I’m a dirty old man and I”ll watch again tomorrow.
I have to disagree somewhat Jack, because one possible way I see it playing out from here is that the ACORN employee (lets call her “deep throat”) caught in this latest video, rats out the entire organization in return for immunity from prosecution, since she does have the biggest mouth so far, even if the hidden cam’s audio was not the best. There was a time when you had to be sent to prison before you could get as much advice from criminals. I guess far left radicals just view a visit to the ACORN office as a more efficient way of going about passing on their trade.
The best part for me though was when activist filmmaker James O’Keefe let it be known that these newsworthy videos cost all of $1,300 to produce. That really puts the mainstream media guys to shame.
I’m of the same mind Brian. If these people are prosecuted as they should be, and there are lots of them now and more to come I’m sure, someone is going to sing like a canary – which will take this one more step up the ladder.
Still virtually nothing by the MSM.
For a bunch of do-gooder community organizers, ACORN has some interesting notions!
http://www.breitbart.tv/undercover-video-captures-acorn-worker-describing-how-she-killed-husband/
Apparently our fave windbag, Lizzie May, founded ACORN Canada a few years back. Hmmmmmm. More proof that this woman is completely NUTS!
And any claim she has made that her policies are conservative, has now been proven entirely bogus by this Acorn connection. We know where her true beliefs lie.