It’s about time.
After months and months of reports about corrupt practices by ACORN, including charges of voter registration fraud in 14 states, the Senate voted yesterday to pull the plug on allowing ACORN access to HUD funds.
Do you think the fact that two extraordinary young journalists going from ACORN office to ACORN office posing as a prostitute and a pimp looking for advice on buying a home in order to set up a brothel staffed by underage illegal immigrants and each time finding the ACORN staff giving them all kinds of advice on how to lie on mortgage and business applications and tax returns finally put ACORN’s corruption so out in the open it could no longer be ignored?
The following is from the official Senate record of yesterday’s vote. Please note the names of the Senators who voted against the amendment. Apparently they are of the opinion that ACORN is doing a fine job encouraging the poor and minorities to break the law and that our tax monies should continue to go to fund such corruption. An “agenda” strongly supported by President Obama, too, we might add.
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 2355 to H.R. 3288 (Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010)
Statement of Purpose: Prohibiting use of funds to fund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
YEAs —83
Akaka (D-HI), Alexander (R-TN), Barrasso (R-WY), Baucus (D-MT), Bayh (D-IN), Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO), Bennett (R-UT), Bingaman (D-NM), Bond (R-MO), Boxer (D-CA), Brown (D-OH)
Brownback (R-KS), Bunning (R-KY), Cantwell (D-WA), Cardin (D-MD), Carper (D-DE)
Chambliss (R-GA), Cochran (R-MS), Collins (R-ME), Conrad (D-ND), Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX), Crapo (R-ID), DeMint (R-SC), Dodd (D-CT), Dorgan (D-ND), Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY), Feingold (D-WI), Feinstein (D-CA), Franken (D-MN), Grassley (R-IA), Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA), Hatch (R-UT), Inhofe (R-OK), Inouye (D-HI), Isakson (R-GA), Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD), Kaufman (D-DE), Kerry (D-MA), Klobuchar (D-MN), Kohl (D-WI), Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA), Lautenberg (D-NJ), LeMieux (R-FL), Levin (D-MI), Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR), Lugar (R-IN), McCaskill (D-MO), McConnell (R-KY), Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR), Murkowski (R-AK), Murray (D-WA), Nelson (D-FL), Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR), Reed (D-RI), Reid (D-NV), Risch (R-ID), Roberts (R-KS), Rockefeller (D-WV)
Schumer (D-NY), Sessions (R-AL), Shaheen (D-NH), Shelby (R-AL), Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA), Stabenow (D-MI), Tester (D-MT), Thune (R-SD), Udall (D-CO), Udall (D-NM)
Voinovich (R-OH), Warner (D-VA), Webb (D-VA), Wicker (R-MS), Wyden (D-OR)
NAYs —7
Burris (D-IL)
Casey (D-PA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Leahy (D-VT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Not Voting – 9
Burr (R-NC), Byrd (D-WV), Coburn (R-OK)
Graham (R-SC), Gregg (R-NH), Hutchison (R-TX)
McCain (R-AZ), Mikulski (D-MD), Vitter (R-LA)
You might want to contact your Congress critters about ACORN continuing to apply for more federal funds (read: our hard-earned tax dollars). Clarice Feldman notes at AmericanThinker that the “ACORN Institute has filed two separate applications with the Commerce Department. One in the amount of $3,172,042 and the other in amount of $2,999,903.” They want to “facilitate broadband in disadvantaged populations”.
Or, as Clarice so aptly put it, set up “…multistate brothels trafficking in underage minors from Albania?”