Senate Axes Acorn Funding

There is a LOT of new news on the Acorn situation. First, the US Senate has decided to bar HUD from giving Acorn any further funding.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ANCH580&show_article=1&catnum=0

The vote on this was 83-7… I’d like the names of those seven.

To show you how out-of-touch Acorn officials are, in spite of all the recent revelations, at least one Acorn office is applying for more government money.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/ACORN-wants-another-6-million-despite-scandals-59241457.html

Lawmakers in DC, mostly Republicans, are calling for Congressional hearings and IRS audits of Acorn offices because of the recent scandals.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/14/lawmakers-continue-probes-acorn/

And what is Acorn’s reaction? Well, besides denying everything, they’ve decided they will sue the people who made the videos, as well as Fox News and Brietbart.com.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27139.html


People, what these workers at Acorn did was not only illegal, it was immoral. They offered advice on how to lie to government agencies… that’s fraud. They were basically actively assisting a pimp to form a prostitution ring staffed by UNDERAGE girls from El Salvador. Children, people, CHILDREN. Anybody who could offer help with that has the morals of a rabid dog. Acorn should be treated like that same rabid dog and put down. All that needs to happen is that ALL Acorn affiliates be denied their life-blood… federal funds.

The Senate has taken a first step along that road, now let’s see if the House follows suit.

Behavior like this should NEVER be tolerated… ESPECIALLY by our government!

UPDATE: The House GOP has introduced legislation to remove ALL federal funding for Acorn.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/House-GOP-to-call-for-total-cutoff-of-federal-funds-to-ACORN-59326682.html