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The Spectacle Blog
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives voted to block funding to any remaining ACORN affiliates and to “new” ACORN groups that have sprung up over the last year.
The ACORN network of 370-plus organizations is not actually dead, as I’ve written. It is merely restructuring itself. The lead corporate entity, ACORN, filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy, but the state chapters and other branches of the infamous activist network continue to operate. Other affiliates including vote manufacturers Project Vote and housing bubble generator ACORN Housing continue in business. ACORN Housing changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America.
ACORN insiders acknowledge a reconstituted ACORN will emerge in time to help the reelection campaign of President Obama, who used to work for ACORN.
Spearheading the effort to keep taxpayer dollars out of the hands of ACORN was Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa), who figures prominently in my new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.
“ACORN is a corrupt criminal enterprise that threatens our democratic system of government by systematically committing voter registration fraud,” said King, a longtime ACORN critic. “American taxpayers should not be asked to fund an organization that is dedicated to corrupting the sanctity of every American’s vote.”
King’s amendment turning off the funding spigot was approved 251 to 168.
Only three Republican lawmakers voted to keep ACORN eligible for funding. They were Robert Aderholt (R-Alabama), Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), and Paul Gosar (R-Arizona).
The full bill, a Department of Homeland Security funding bill for fiscal 2012, was approved on a vote of 231 to 188. It is unclear when the measure will be taken up by the Senate.
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Ken (Old Texican)| 6.6.11 @ 9:30AM
Matthew,
2010 was important for a lot of reasons. This is one of them.
I believe we will see a lot more of them as time goes by.
I read a novel over the weekend "The Jefferson Project".
I highly commend it to all of you.
One of the things it demonstrated is that members of The House must spend half their terms raising money to get re-elected every two years...that puts each of them on a high-wire from day one.
Don L| 6.6.11 @ 10:05AM
Check with your local and national churches and find out how much money, meant for poverty, eventually finds its way (accidentally) into these Marxist acronym groups.
Where is Senator McCarthy when America needs one to clear out this leftist trash?
Ryan| 6.6.11 @ 10:35AM
How is this measure to be enforced? ACORN can just change its name again...
George S| 6.6.11 @ 10:45AM
Classic government magic show, focus on ACORN while the TSA still gets its money to continue to fondle children, radiate adults and detain those who change their mind.
Pelligrino| 6.6.11 @ 10:49AM
Why should taxpayers fund anything that no one knows anything about? If you interviewed 4,000 adult Americans, would even 1 interviewee be able to espouse what ACORN (past or present forms) is supposed to do for the benefit of all Americans?
What's the issue? We have no $; we're flat broke. So surely we don't fund things that are not just unclear and murky but also thuggish and subversive.
And: Where in the U.S. Constitution does it provide for Congress to tax the citizenry for funding an entity like ACORN? Have we forgotten this foundational question for ALL legistlation?
Big Problem: The end of the article states that the vote to defund ACORN was part of a Dept. of Homeland Security FY 2012 bill. What???
Each bill/idea/initiative/effort/legislative piece should/MUST stand on its own. What do DHS and ACORN have to do with each other? (Is this how congressidiots then 'splain away their votes? "You see, ma'am, I am fully for defunding and abolishing ACORN, but I had to vote my conscience on the bigger issues of this bill regarding DHS funding."
We are a loopy nation of can't-be-bothered-with-the-details dunces.
Matthew Vadum | 6.6.11 @ 11:53AM
Attaching riders (including funding bans) to appropriations bill is the way typically Congress does business. Don't ask me why.
Godfrey| 6.7.11 @ 4:16AM
Yes, if they can't get a bill passed they will attach it to another bill that they know will get passed....this is how the "crooks'" ....WORK.
Oldefarte| 6.6.11 @ 11:32AM
Thank you, Matthew, for your excellent update on this important subject matter [and I and all of us should be sure to read your book regarding same]. Thanks also to congressmen such as King for his valiant efforts at stopping taxpayer funding of this partisaned garbage/waste. Since I live in the same state as one of your reported Republican congressmen that voted to continue Acorn's funding, I'll be sure to do all within my limited power to ensure his non-election ASAP. Its simply amazing and outlandish that taxpayers' hard earned money has historically been squandered/stolen by these liberal congressional morons into financing their welfare-oriented bullexcrement with taxpayer monies; but that is but one of the numerous examples of political corruption within our un-democratic system of government, sadly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PattyMor| 6.6.11 @ 1:22PM
Congressman King (Iowa) is great! Would someone smack (figuratively) the three Dopey Reps. along side their heads and wake up Robert Aderholt (R-Alabama), Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), and Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) because they voted to keep funding ACORN. To the folks in Alabama, Idaho, and Arizona, you can do better than this. Time to primary them.
Oldefarte| 6.6.11 @ 2:54PM
True, but you have to understand the apparent political reasoning behind same. Alabama [along with the entire South] is heavily populated by indigent minorities, which are the targets of this Acorn-government welfare bullexcrement in the first place. If memory serves me, Acorn was originally established in New Orleans, Louisiana by a couple of gooney-bird [liberal] brothers for the purposes of marshalling government money/power/influence surrounding minority voting collections [and NO is heavily populated by minorities who are also governmental welfare recipients in large numbers]. Mississippi, Alabama, Gerogia, Arkansas, etc are similarily polulated and vernerable to the intentions of an Acorn-type organization [so therefore these states congressmen-representatives will political pander to them also]. In comparison, a state like Iowa has what, maybe 1% of its population as indigent minorities?????????????
Godfrey| 6.7.11 @ 4:09AM
Thanks' for the info........I did not vote for Aderholt but I will post this and inform his supporters who did.