Thursday, September 24, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Finally some GOOD News! The Senate votes to deny funds to ACORN!
HALLELUJAH AND HOORAY...these people finally woke up and smelled the coffee!!!!! Thank God for Fox news or people would still be just ignoring this "boil on the butt of humanity" organization! Fox News and Glenn Beck are really keeping us informed because the other networks are not even talking about the corruption and despicable behavior of these people that OUR TAX DOLLARS PAY THEIR SALARY!!!!!!!!!!! hopefully this organization will be shut down and locked away for good. Now, of course this presents another problem...they wont be getting their "government paycheck" any longer so that means they will be in the unemployment lines because they dont have skills to even qualify for jobs. Maybe, just maybe this might open a tiny hole of light at the end of the tunnel! To quote a wonderful pharase: "Neil Armstrong - This is One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!"
I was very curious who the 7 people that voted FOR Acorn to continue to receive funding. I "googled" it and was taken to this website: http://www.ihatethemedia.com/which-senators-voted-to-continue-funding-acorn I copied and pasted from that article...AND...
Here they are:
"Dick Durbin (D-IL), Roland Burris (D-IL), Robert Casey (D-PA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Patrick Leahy (D-VT) &Bernie Sanders20(I-VT)
Please note that six of the seven are Democrats, and the seventh is a Socialist. Also please note that it’s increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two."
Keep passing these things around, tell everyone you know about the corruption that is going on in our government today! It is really unbelievable at what has happend in the last 7 months and 25 days...we have a long way to go, but 2012 will be here before we know it. We are strong enough to survive this administration...I just know it!
Support America! Support our Freedom! Support our Troops!
Murray
The Greatest Casualty is Being Forgotten!
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.com/
Senate votes to deny funds to ACORN
AP News
Monday, September 14, 2009
The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.
The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The action came as the group is suffering from bad publicity after a duo of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore gave advice on house-buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets such as the Fox News Channel, depict similar situations in ACORN offices in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.
The Senate's move would mean that ACORN would not be able to win HUD grants for programs such as counseling low-income people on how to get mortgages and for fair housing education and outreach.
Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., said that ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer funds since 1994 and that the group was eligible for a wider set of funding in the pending legislation, which funds housing and transportation programs.
Just last week, the Census Bureau severed its ties with ACORN, saying it does not want the group's help in outreach efforts on the decennial count.
In recent months, Republicans have become increasingly critical of the census' ties with ACORN. The group, which advocates for poor people, conducted a massive voter registration effort last year and became a target of conservatives when some employees were accused of submitting false registration forms with names such as "Mickey Mouse."
Just last week, prosecutors in Miami-Dade County, Fla., arrested 11 people for falsifying hundreds of voter applications during a registration drive last year. ACORN tipped the authorities off to the problem.
On the hidden camera controversy, ACORN says it has fired the employees involved but has lashed out at Fox for pumping up the scandal.
In a statement, Bertha Lewis, ACORN's chief organizer, said the tapes had been doctored and violated Maryland's wiretapping laws. She promised to sue Fox.
Another ACORN spokesman, Scott Levenson, said the group believes the voices of the couple in the video shot in the Brooklyn office were dubbed over to alter the conversation and make the interaction appear more objectionable than it may have been.
ACORN sent a letter to Fox News President Roger Ailes, stating that the videotape was deceptive and had been dubbed over, and asking the network to stop showing the videos, Levensen said.
Fox News spokeswoman Dana Klinghoffer said the tapes were vetted editorially before they were aired.
The video was created by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles and posted20on BigGovernment.com, where O'Keefe identifies himself as an activist filmmaker.
Breitbart.com, which owns BigGovernment.com, did not immediately respond to a call and e-mails seeking comment.
On Monday, Lewis called the Senate's vote a "rare and politically convenient step" but noted that the group gets most of its funding from "its members and other supporters, so the decision will have little impact on overall operations."
The Senate measure is scheduled to pass this week and must be reconciled with a companion House measure that passed in July before becoming law.
I was very curious who the 7 people that voted FOR Acorn to continue to receive funding. I "googled" it and was taken to this website: http://www.ihatethemedia.com/which-senators-voted-to-continue-funding-acorn I copied and pasted from that article...AND...
Here they are:
"Dick Durbin (D-IL), Roland Burris (D-IL), Robert Casey (D-PA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Patrick Leahy (D-VT) &Bernie Sanders20(I-VT)
Please note that six of the seven are Democrats, and the seventh is a Socialist. Also please note that it’s increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two."
Keep passing these things around, tell everyone you know about the corruption that is going on in our government today! It is really unbelievable at what has happend in the last 7 months and 25 days...we have a long way to go, but 2012 will be here before we know it. We are strong enough to survive this administration...I just know it!
Support America! Support our Freedom! Support our Troops!
Murray
The Greatest Casualty is Being Forgotten!
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.com/
Senate votes to deny funds to ACORN
AP News
Monday, September 14, 2009
The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.
The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The action came as the group is suffering from bad publicity after a duo of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore gave advice on house-buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets such as the Fox News Channel, depict similar situations in ACORN offices in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.
The Senate's move would mean that ACORN would not be able to win HUD grants for programs such as counseling low-income people on how to get mortgages and for fair housing education and outreach.
Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., said that ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer funds since 1994 and that the group was eligible for a wider set of funding in the pending legislation, which funds housing and transportation programs.
Just last week, the Census Bureau severed its ties with ACORN, saying it does not want the group's help in outreach efforts on the decennial count.
In recent months, Republicans have become increasingly critical of the census' ties with ACORN. The group, which advocates for poor people, conducted a massive voter registration effort last year and became a target of conservatives when some employees were accused of submitting false registration forms with names such as "Mickey Mouse."
Just last week, prosecutors in Miami-Dade County, Fla., arrested 11 people for falsifying hundreds of voter applications during a registration drive last year. ACORN tipped the authorities off to the problem.
On the hidden camera controversy, ACORN says it has fired the employees involved but has lashed out at Fox for pumping up the scandal.
In a statement, Bertha Lewis, ACORN's chief organizer, said the tapes had been doctored and violated Maryland's wiretapping laws. She promised to sue Fox.
Another ACORN spokesman, Scott Levenson, said the group believes the voices of the couple in the video shot in the Brooklyn office were dubbed over to alter the conversation and make the interaction appear more objectionable than it may have been.
ACORN sent a letter to Fox News President Roger Ailes, stating that the videotape was deceptive and had been dubbed over, and asking the network to stop showing the videos, Levensen said.
Fox News spokeswoman Dana Klinghoffer said the tapes were vetted editorially before they were aired.
The video was created by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles and posted20on BigGovernment.com, where O'Keefe identifies himself as an activist filmmaker.
Breitbart.com, which owns BigGovernment.com, did not immediately respond to a call and e-mails seeking comment.
On Monday, Lewis called the Senate's vote a "rare and politically convenient step" but noted that the group gets most of its funding from "its members and other supporters, so the decision will have little impact on overall operations."
The Senate measure is scheduled to pass this week and must be reconciled with a companion House measure that passed in July before becoming law.
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