My friend David Weigel over at
Slate thinks it’s knee-slappingly hilarious that lawmakers took
the time to prohibit federal funding of President Obama’s favorite
activist group in the proposed Department of Homeland Security
Appropriations Act. He writes in a blog post sarcastically titled
“Good News: Stalled FEMA Funding Bill Bans ACORN Funding”:
I’ve been poking around today on an emerging issue: What will be
cut in order to fund FEMA’s obligations for Hurricane Irene
recovery? The search takes me to the text of the Department of
Homeland Security Appropriations Act, which was narrowly passed by
the House but sits stalled in the Senate. That stall is the reason
that FEMA has to move around money meant for Joplin disaster
recovery in order to take care of Irene. I don’t see why there’s a
hold-up, because Republicans did a good job making sure no DHS
money could go to liberal groups.
First off, ACORN is not a liberal group. It is a
radical leftist group.
Second, lawmakers have every reason to worry that FEMA funds
might go to ACORN’s new front groups. FEMA gave close to $1.5
million to ACORN in 2008 and 2009. Federal money, including FEMA
funds, has a habit of
disappearing into a vortex, as noted by the Department of
Homeland Security’s inspector general.
Third, the Obama administration is already funneling taxpayer
dollars to ACORN in violation of a congressionally approved funding
ban. The Department of Housing and Urban Development
gave an $80,000 grant to ACORN Housing, which has renamed
itself Affordable Housing Centers of America, in March.
ACORN officials openly acknowledge that ACORN’s new front groups
created after the shell corporation named ACORN filed for
bankruptcy last year will come together under a new name in order
to help reelect President Obama next year. Read all about it in my
new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s
ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American
Taxpayers.
Weigel provides a list of the ACORN-related groups that will be
denied federal funding under the DHS appropriations bill. Here is a
sampling of just a few groups on the list that remain active:
ACORN Canada
ACORN International (a.k.a. Community Organizations
International)
New York Communities for Change
Affordable Housing Centers of America
Action Now
Pennsylvania Communities Organizing for Change
Arkansas Community Organizations
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
New England United for Justice
Texas Organizing Project
Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change
Organization United for Reform
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment
A Community Voice
Working Families Party
Hilarious, ain’t it?
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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to
help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN
and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical
leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul
Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any
means to do it.
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