Breaking: House Votes to Defund ACORN

Just like the Senate, the House of Representatives voted today to cut ACORN's access to federal housing funds. The House voted 345-75 to defund the organization that has been at the center of an explosive undercover sting investigation for the past week.

The Representatives listed below voted against the measure, meaning they still support our tax dollars funding this corrupt organization:

Baldwin
Becerra
Brady (PA)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Capuano
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (IL)
DeGette
Delahunt
Doyle
Edwards (MD)
Ellison
Engel
Fattah
Filner
Fudge
Green, Al
Grijalva
Hinchey

Hirono
Holt
Honda
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson, E. B.
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kucinich
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lynch
Markey (MA)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
Meeks (NY)
Mollohan
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Nadler (NY)
Neal (MA)
Olver
Pallone
Pascrell

Payne
Polis (CO)
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sanchez, Linda T.
Schakowsky
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Stark
Thompson (MS)
Towns
Tsongas
Velazquez
Waters
Watson
Waxman
Wexler
Woolsey

BK22 Wrote: Sep 20, 2009 3:10 PM

ACORN hires an outside auditor. The Auditor goes over their books, finds 99% of what they are doing is on the up and up, and funding is restored. Everyone pats themselves on the back.
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Sorry, ain't gonna happen. They are already closing down offices and they have whistleblowers coming from all over wanting to testify.

Acorn is toast..they done!

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Careful with that axe, Eugene Wrote: Sep 20, 2009 3:00 PM

let me tell you how this plays out, buddy.

ACORN hires an outside auditor. The Auditor goes over their books, finds 99% of what they are doing is on the up and up, and funding is restored. Everyone pats themselves on the back.

Meanwhile, people of color just see the GOP as screwing them over ...because most of them see first hand the good ACORN does.

Sometimes, you have to remember you don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty but the pig enjoys it...

coopmeister Wrote: Sep 20, 2009 2:34 PM

The TH bloggers are positively titilated by this ACORN story.

Nobody gives a rat's bootie that the mercenary squad we pay six figures per guy, is off having perverted sex orgies, in our name and on our dime. Hey, no prob.

Or that, Repub after Repub, the most sanctimonious of the group, are off screwing anything that moves...
Hey just move to C Street...and its OK.

BK22 Wrote: Sep 20, 2009 2:13 PM

Yeah, if I google that stuff, I'll get posts from every right wing whacko who thinks their an ACORN worker hiding under his bed ready to register his kids as Democrats.
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They actually did register a 13 year old.

Axe: I actually did go through you list for sh1ts and giggles, and it's the typical, "please guilty to a misdemeanor and got probation" kind of thing.
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Yup, some people simply can't handle the truth.

Axe: Let's talk about what REALLY has you upset, it isn't the 30 or so people who registered fake people, it's the 1.5 million REAL poor people that ACORN registered and got out to vote......

Careful with that axe, Eugene Wrote: Sep 20, 2009 1:14 PM

Well, if you can't believe a crazy mormon, wno can you believe.

Yeah, if I google that stuff, I'll get posts from every right wing whacko who thinks their an ACORN worker hiding under his bed ready to register his kids as Democrats.

I actually did go through you list for sh1ts and giggles, and it's the typical, "please guilty to a misdemeanor and got probation" kind of thing.

Let's talk about what REALLY has you upset, it isn't the 30 or so people who registered fake people, it's the 1.5 million REAL poor people that ACORN registered and got out to vote...

BK22 Wrote: Sep 20, 2009 10:48 AM

State of ACORN Investigations : Glenn Beck – The 912 ProjectSep 15, 2009 ... [28] “EIGHT ACORN VOTER REGISTRATION WORKERS PLEAD GUILTY TO FEDERAL ELECTION FRAUD CHARGES,” United States Attorney's Office for the ...
http://www.the912project.com/2009/.../state-of-acorn-invest igations/

If you google acorn fraud, convictions, whistleblowers or just about anything associated with acorn/fraud, you will find all the info you need.

Careful with that axe, Eugene Wrote: Sep 20, 2009 10:25 AM

The latest represents three different areas of the country. In addition, 30 people have been convicted in 13 states.

I guess child prostitution run on tax dollars would be acceptable if it only involved a "few" employees. Oh brother!!!

Me- Source?

What we have are edited tapes where low level employees say stupid things. Those people were fired.

On the other hand, the tapes of Enron energy traders causing blackouts in California did not result in firings. You know, joking about granny sitting in the dark so they could charge exhoribatant rates for buying backup power.

Frankly, I'm bothered by the fact that these people were helping someone claiming to run a prostitution business, but prostitution...

Careful with that axe, Eugene Wrote: Sep 20, 2009 10:20 AM

Axinine
Now you are crying for Acorn? Go figure .We will stop obamacare as well and we will retake Congress in 2010.

Me- I don't care about it one way or the other... I just think that with all the REAL problems we have, this is the proverbial tempest in a teapot.

I also think this shows the tonedeafness of the GOP on race. The communities served by ACORN know it is not the evil organization it is being made out to be. But you guys think you found your new Willie Horton, and you are going at it with gusto.

And then you scratch your heads when the Democratic nominee gets 69% of the Hispanic vote and 96% of the black vote.

Gunny knuckles G© Wrote: Sep 20, 2009 8:48 AM

You catch one in the head on the rebound?

noreaster Wrote: Sep 18, 2009 9:24 AM

http://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2008/07/acorns-rathke-brot hers-exposed.html

Brother of ACORN’s Chief Embezzles $1 Million of Organization’s $$
The Rathke Brothers, Wade and Dale - heads of Acorn and SEIU - and crooks.

30 PLED GUILTY SO FAR TO VOTER FRAUD. Now, there are the videos showing even more corruption.
Bertha Lewis says she will have an investigation done, not good enough. You don’t think for a minute we’ll trust the outcome do you?

Then she says, this is because the Acorn workers were black and brown. Another abhorrent play of that same old card - doesn’t work Bertha.

In the video were...

NeoConScum Wrote: Sep 18, 2009 8:33 AM

are on the "Keep giving Billions to ACORN" List above. Same hard left ponzi schemers; different day. Jeepers, I'm surprised. The 2-L.A. 'Rah-Rah for Castro' Girls and their keeper, Henry the Louse.

Anton Chigur Wrote: Sep 18, 2009 8:22 AM

Now you are crying for Acorn? Go figure .We will stop obamacare as well and we will retake Congress in 2010.

BK22 Wrote: Sep 18, 2009 7:50 AM

So ACORN had a few employees who got "Boratted" by a couple of RW nutters with a camera, and you guys think you hit paydirt.

Well, take your little victories where you can get them...
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The latest represents three different areas of the country. In addition, 30 people have been convicted in 13 states.

I guess child prostitution run on tax dollars would be acceptable if it only involved a "few" employees. Oh brother!!!

Careful with that axe, Eugene Wrote: Sep 18, 2009 6:31 AM

think ACORN is hiding under their bed.

So ACORN had a few employees who got "Boratted" by a couple of RW nutters with a camera, and you guys think you hit paydirt.

Well, take your little victories where you can get them...

noreaster Wrote: Sep 18, 2009 3:09 AM

We are watching the votes. I personally keep my own chart - yes, I label things in my kitchen too - and follow the issues so that when I go to the polls, I know what I am doing. I do the same for local elections too - if you have elected judges, sit in their courtroom before you vote - you might be surprised.

arch16 Wrote: Sep 18, 2009 1:25 AM

http://forums.somd.com/politics/190034-house-votes-strip-fu nding-acorn.html

Arch says.

Look it up!
God damned libtard ignoramus Jordan!

arch16 Wrote: Sep 18, 2009 1:21 AM

Jordan writes: Friday, September, 18, 2009 12:52 AM
arch, ignorant fool
Pawlenty bloviated asshattedly that his STATE would cut funding to ACORN, which neither HE nor the STATE FUNDED in the first place, you friggin' moron.

Arch says.

Wrong! Blatant ignoramus Jordan! Federal funding to Acorn was filtered through the states by grants to community ed. Look it up! You God damned libtard ignoramus!

DocForesight Wrote: Sep 18, 2009 1:20 AM

You have a very limited vocabulary - probably matches your intellect.

Why don't you go play over at HuffPo among your other sweethearts?

arch16 Wrote: Sep 17, 2009 11:40 PM

Jordan writes: Thursday, September, 17, 2009 9:37 PM
Fun fact:
Pawlenty, the rethug moron from MN loudly whined that he would pull the funding from ACORN in his state. The funny part?-- He never FUNDED it! What a friggin' MORON.

Arch says

Who is the moron Jordan? Pawlenty does not fund anything as Governor. That is the role of the State Congress. Pawlenty can only veto or pass the funding on. His words were true. He will veto,(or for you ignorant libtards) cut funding for the scumbag ACORN in Minnesota!

BK22 Wrote: Sep 17, 2009 11:30 PM

supports pedophilia. Seems to fit his style!

Riders on the Storm Wrote: Sep 17, 2009 10:44 PM

Maybe sceptyczny is just a male alter ego of Val. Come to think of it, they do say a lot of the same things about "real conservatives." And it strikes me as a very feminine thing to do, to vote by emotions--I hate Palin so I will vote for a leftist even though I claim to be a conservative.

MaineConservative Wrote: Sep 17, 2009 10:15 PM

I should just shrug this guy off, but it infuriates me when someone claims to be the "true conservative" and lectures me on staying true to principles, then in the next breath admits to voting for the highest, most powerful office in the country based upon his speaking talent.

Wow, nothing like stay true to your principles, huh?

Riders on the Storm Wrote: Sep 17, 2009 9:48 PM

I couldn't help myself. :) Country club Republicans are so annoying. They're elitists and religious bigots. I held my nose and voted for McCain because the alternative was so much worse. I'm not a Palin fan, but I don't understand the irrational hatred of her that so many moderates have.

BK22 Wrote: Sep 17, 2009 9:18 PM

I am a conservative, whether you believe me or not. Barry Goldwater supported Roe. I support Roe.
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Roe doesn't even support Roe!!!!! Separation of church and state is bastardiszed. Sure the constitution prohibits the government estabishling a government sanctioned church but it does not prohibit "freedom of religion".

Scept says : "I voted for President Obama because I wanted to make a statement to my GOP--don't try to tell me what is moral, and don't try to shove some small town mayor who can't control her own kids down my throat as being 'qualified' for the presidency should a great man like McCain pass...

MaineConservative Wrote: Sep 17, 2009 9:16 PM

Maybe we should give sceptyczny a break.

After all, he actually could be just mentally challenged. Sad, though, that he falls into the same category of those falling for the fluttering peacock Obama because he can read well off a teleprompter.

Pathetic

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