Just In: Senate Votes Overwhelmingly To Cut Off Funds To ACORN

Senator Mike Johanns (R_NE) introduced an amendment to the HUD and Transportation appropriations bill today which would cut off all housing funding to ACORN. The amendment passed overwhelmingly, with only 7 Democrats voting against it. These Dirty 7 are no surprise, but I’ll call them out anyways!
* Dick Durbin (D-IL)
* Roland Burris (D-IL)
* Robert Casey (D-PA)
* Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
* Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
* Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
* Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

The amendment, S2355 reads:

None of the funds made available under this Act may be directly or indirectly distributed to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

The main financial sustenance for the massive community organizer comes from unions (which outsource dirty work, strategy, and anti-corporate attacks to the group), powerful politically motivated non-profit foundations, political campaigns (including $800,000 from then-Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008) and, most of all, taxpayer money.

As the roll-call vote began, several Democrats initially voted it down. As the vote continued, however, some could be heard calling out that they wanted to change their vote. Doesn’t look too good to be on the side of tax evasion and child prostitution.

Johann actually proposed 2 amendments to the bill which targeted ACORN: the above-mentioned S2355 and also S2356. It is important that S2356 be passed as well, for it broadens the funding prohibition in a way that would make it harder for ACORN to play the shell game with government money, and for other corrupt orgs to be denied funding as well. S 2356 says:

None of the funds made available under this Act shall be distributed to–

(1) an organization which has a pending indictment for or has been convicted of a violation under Federal or State law relating to fraudulent voting in any Federal or State election; or

(2) an organization which employs an individual who has a pending indictment for or has been convicted of a violation under Federal or State law relating to fraudulent voting in any Federal or State election.

The House still needs to agree to the funding halt, so put the pressure on your Representatives. San Fran Nan Pelosi may try to block a vote from coming to the floor.

Great news, all-in-all! Nut-busting undercover journalists Hannah Giles, 20, and James O’Keefe, 25, may still have more videos to join their outstanding body of work from Baltimore, D.C. and New York. They certainly give us all hope for the next generation!!

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