I guess it’s hard to justify sending millions of taxpayer dollars to ACORN once the news broke that employees of the corrupt organization are adept at teaching people how to break the law. It’s a shame it took two twenty-something year old amateurs to expose the extent of ACORN’s corruption. (And good for them!) No wonder Americans don’t trust the media.
The Senate voted to cut off ACORN Housing funds following the release of three videotapes that show employees of the activist group advising a “pimp” and “prostitute” on how to break the law.
The amendment, offered by Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns, passed in a vote of 83 to 7 and prohibits the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now from receiving funds from the current Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. It marks the third time this year Republicans tried to block the organization from federal funding.
The latest vote comes on the heels of the release of hidden-camera videos showing workers in three separate ACORN housing offices apparently helping a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute evade the IRS and apply for an illegal housing loan for a brothel.
ACORN Housing Corporation received $1.6 million to provide housing services to low-income communities in this fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, according to USASpending.gov, a federal government Web site for tracking government grants.
Is there any way we the taxpayers can demand they return the funding they’ve already received? I wonder how much the democrats and Obama’s political campaign will pay them for get out the vote efforts next year and in 2012. And I wonder if teachers’ unions will stop contributing money to this shady organization. Really, how can teachers support a group willing to cover up child prostitution?
[...] it was nice the Senate voted to stop ACORN from receiving funds from the transportation bill (with John McCain and Lindsay Grahm abstaining), it would be better to stop all federal funding of [...]
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