Senate Moves to Cut ACORN Funding
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It looks like the Democrats and others in the Senate are starting to think that maybe the People are right about ACORN. Michelle Malkin was covering the vote on her blog live Monday.
The Senate voted on Monday to block grant funding to ACORN from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Senate voted 83-7 in favor of the measure.
Meanwhile, the organization — which is involved in several fraudulent voter registration cases across the nation and was recently exposed by a conservative duo with a hidden camera posing as a pimp and prostitute looking for housing and tax advice for their brothel — is crying that it will sue Fox News for airing the videos and covering the scandal. The only chance they have with that case would likely be to take it to a California or New Jersey court, and it would still be a snowball's chance in hell.
The Johanns Amendment blocks ACORN from receiving millions of taxpayer dollars from the current transportation and housing appropriations bill. ACORN is currently eligible to receive millions of taxpayer dollars through mortgage counseling, Community Development Block Grants, and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. However, they are still eligible for $8 BILLION through that American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Obama's stimulus package) that you all loved.
So, I'm sure you want to know which 7 Senators voted in ACORN's favor. They are as follows:
- Burris (D-IL)
- Casey (D-PA)
- Durbin (D-IL)
- Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Leahy (D-VT)
- Sanders (I-VT)
- Whitehouse (D-RI)
And here are the 9 who decided to not take a stance either way:
- Burr (R-NC)
- Byrd (D-WV)
- Coburn (R-OK)
- Graham (R-SC) (In a town hall at 9AM at the Citadel in S.C., vote was at 5PM)
- Gregg (R-NH)
- Hutchison (R-TX)
- McCain (R-AZ) (In a town hall at 9AM at the Citadel in S.C., vote was at 5PM)
- Mikulski (D-MD)
- Vitter (R-LA)
“Until a full investigation is launched into ACORN, no taxpayer money should be used to fund its activities. A vote in favor of my amendment is a vote in favor of the taxpayer and a vote against the status quo.” - Sen. Mike Johanns. I think he said it quite well. We should investigate ACORN in the same manner that we investigate the Mafia.
