http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125298410509811027.html
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to prevent Acorn, an umbrella group of community organizers, from being able to bid for federal grant money.
The 83-7 vote came as Acorn -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- has been in the spotlight for hidden-camera videos in which Acorn employees give tax advice to a couple posing as a pros ute and her pimp. Prosecutors in Florida last week issued warrants for several Acorn employees on allegations they falsified voter-registration records last year, and on Friday, the Census Bureau severed ties with the organization as it prepares for the 2010 count.
A spokesman for Acorn didn't return an email seeking comment on the vote. Earlier, a spokesman said Acorn would have no comment until the Senate acted.
Acorn received $1.6 million to provide housing assistance in its current fiscal year, which expires Sept. 30, and according to Republican lawmakers, the group has received $53 million in federal funding since 1994. It has been involved in advising lower-income people as the mortgage foreclosure crisis has deepened.
The measure preventing Acorn from qualifying for federal grant money was introduced by Sen. Mike Johanns (R., Neb.) as an amendment to a spending bill funding the departments of Housing and Urban Development and Transportation in fiscal 2010. The House-passed version of the spending bill doesn't include such language.
It is the third time this year that Republicans have attempted to block Acorn's eligibility for federal funds.
The cynic in me believes they will just get the money anyways through indirect means.
LOL @ Fox News/Radio Heads chopping this administration down piece by piece. If only Obama had gotten into power before the advent of handheld micro-cameras/videos and youtube. Or after it was all censored enough. What glorious heights he could have reached.
Gov. Perry knocks Sen. Hutchinson for missing the 83-7 vote.
The damage OBAMA has already done, will take generations to fix if we started tomorrow...and he's only month's into his term.
Still waiting for your brief for the Red Chinese in the tire kerfuffle. Did you ever read up on it?
I suppose you'll take their side again and say that it's the US that went awry of the rules, and that what the Chinese are doing isn't dumping because we "abandoned" the market the Chinese are serving. And to pour yet more scorn on Obama for taking our side rather than theirs, as you have done.
Too bad we can't have slave labor too, to make us more compe ive globally.
Last edited by Winehole23; 09-15-2009 at 01:00 PM.
Who takes on the Census count now?
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