BREAKING! Senate Votes to DEFUND ACORN
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:23PM Looks like Obama's rats are hanging out to dry.
AP via Breitbart: Senate votes to deny funds to ACORN
Johanns Amendment #2355 to HR 3288 passed by a margin of 83 to 7.
WASHINGTON (AP) – 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. [...]
I wonder why 10 others didn't vote.
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DrewM from Ace: Wow...Johanns' Amendment To Prevent ACORN From Getting Federal Money Passes Senate
Just watching the vote now and it's going to pass with a lot of Democrat votes. Several Senators changed their votes from "no" to "yes" when it became clear it would pass. [...]
yessir...just like a Democrat to "go with the flow"...Health Care is next?
Mark "Snooper" Harvey
[...] ACORN is a criminal enterprise. [...]
AMEN!
[...] Durbin was a no. I’ll have the rest soon.
The final roll call vote – amendment passes 83-7. I’ll post the full roll when it’s up on the Senate site.
This is the beginning, not the end.
The Dems are finally, finally on the defensive on ACORN.
Republicans, keep digging and pushing and connecting the dots. [END]
AMEN!
Mark "Snooper" Harvey
Gateway Pundit: Senate Votes to Cut ACORN Funding in Transportation Bill
[...] One of Barack Obama's first big "community organizer" jobs involved ACORN in 1992. 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. [END]
Obama. Asshat.
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Reader Comments (8)
See, there is a God. Now if SEIU would somehow implode the same way, I'd be a very happy American.
Amen Greywolfe!
Lets hope this all sticks and a truckload of these peeps do some heavy time as well.....this was a huge victory for the side of good. Thanks Mark
Vitter must have been detained or doing something else for not voting. He has been trying to get anti-ACORN legislation via amendments passed for a long time.
Gillibrand was supposed to be a "moderate" Dem.
Landrieu's vote may well cost her New Orleans in 5 years but was definitely politically motivated to not lose the votes in the rest of Louisiana.
The NAY voters are no surprise at all. Tea Parties swayed many of the Dem AYE votes of course.
I wish we could find out who those were that changed their votes after they saw ACORN was going down to sure defeat. They are maybe worse the the seven - at least they were willing to show their stupidity, the others hid it.
I'm just wondering how all this is going to work. Congress is now considering all of this but ACORN's web site ain't opening up.
ACORN isn't being hurt by this sham vote. They withheld barely 2% of the funding they give ACORN. This is a nothing vote, a full investigation of all of ACORN including the sub-groups is what is needed. I will applaud if these cowards will vote for that!
They won't vote for that. The vote was a NON BINDING vote and that's why there was a vote at all.