Senate Denies Funding To ACORN

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The Senate dealt a blow to ACORN Monday evening, voting to deny the Department of Housing and Urban Development from granting funds to the community organization.

Sen. Mike Johanns’s (R-Neb.) amendment to the appropriations bill providing funding to the department passed in a bipartisan, 83-7 vote.

It’s the latest in a series of recent setbacks for ACORN, which has come under increasing fire from conservative activists and lawmakers. Over the last several weeks, the organization has seen employees in Florida arrested for allegedly taking part in voter registration fraud and has watched as the Census Bureau decide to sever its ties with the group.

And in an embarrassing turn of events, Acorn employees were caught on hidden camera divulging advice to actors portraying a prostitute and her pimp on how to file tax forms.

"With so much in the air about the need for bipartisanship, I'm very glad my colleagues rose above partisan differences to say 'no' to sending more tax dollars to ACORN-whose employees have multiple convictions of undermining our democratic process, our laws, and our good faith," Johanns said in a statement.

Only a handful of Democrats sided with Acorn on the vote: Illinois Sen. Roland Burris, Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.

In a statement, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis said: "We’re disappointed that the Senate took the rare and politically convenient step of supporting eliminating some federal funding for a single organization, one that has been the target of a multi-year political assault stemming variously from the Bush White House, Fox News, and other conservative quarters."

Disappointing to me that Bertha chose to blame others for loosing funding rather than look at the organization itself as the reason why.

ACORN has numerous subgroups. They'll simply apply for funds via another organization. It's a tangled web of money and corruption.

87-3. damn!

Fighter59 wrote:ACORN has numerous subgroups. They'll simply apply for funds via another organization. It's a tangled web of money and corruption.

tinfoil

Pez wrote:tinfoil

I nominate this for the best one word post to date!

Pez wrote:

Fighter59 wrote:ACORN has numerous subgroups. They'll simply apply for funds via another organization. It's a tangled web of money and corruption.

tinfoil

ACORN affiliates:

385 Palmetto Street Housing Fund Corp.
4415 San Jacinto Street Corp.
ACORN
Acorn 2004 Housing Development Fund Corp.
Acorn 2005 Housing Development Fund Corp.
ACORN Associates
ACORN Benefi cial Association
ACORN BeverlyY LLC
ACORN Campaign Services
ACORN Campaign To Raise The Minimum Wage
ACORN Center for Housing, Inc.
ACORN Children’s Benefi cial Association
ACORN Community Land Association
ACORN Community Land Association of IL
ACORN Community Land Association of LA
ACORN Community Land Association of PA
ACORN Community Labor Organizing Center
ACORN Cultural Trust
ACORNDumont-SnedikerHousingDevelopment
Fund Corp.
ACORN Fair Housing
ACORN Fund
ACORN Housing Corp.
ACORN Housing Corp. of IL
ACORN Housing Corp. of MO
ACORN Housing Corp. of PA
ACORN Institute
ACORN Law For Education, Representation,
And Training
ACORN Management Corp.
ACORN National Broadcasting Network
ACORN Services
ACORN Television In Action For Communities
ACORN Tenant Union Training And Organizing
Project
ACORN Tenants Union
Affi liated Media Foundation Movement
Agape Broadcasting Foundation Inc
The Many Faces of ACORN
Among ACORN’s many affi liates and subsidiaries are:
American Environmental Justice Project Inc.
American Home Childcare Providers Association
American Institute for Social Justice
Arizona ACORN Housing Corp.
Arkansas Broadcasting Foundation
Association for the Rights of Citizens Inc.
Associated Regional Maintenance Systems
Austin Organizing and Support Center
Baltimore Organizing and Support Center
Boston Organizing and Support Center
Broad Street Corp.
California Community Network
Chicago Organizing and Support Center
Chief Organizer Fund
Child Care Providers for Action Franklin
Citizens Action Research Project
Citizens Campaign for Work, Living Wage &
Labor Peace
Citizens Consulting, Inc.
Citizens Campaign for Finance Reform
Citizens for Future Progress
Colorado ACORN Housing Corp.
Crescent City Broadcasting Corp.
Desert Rose Homes LLC
Dumont Avenue Housing Development Fund
Elysian Fields Corp., Inc
Elysian Fields Partnership
Fifteenth Street Corp.
Floridians For All PAC
Franklin ACORN Housing
Greenville Community Charter School Inc.
Greenwell Springs Corp.
Hospitality Hotel and Restaurant Organizing
Council (HOTROC)
Houston Organizing And Support Center
KABF Radio
KNON Radio
Labor Neighbor Research and Training Center Inc.
Living Wage Resource Center
Louisiana ACORN Fair Housing
Massachusetts ACORN Housing Corp.
Metro Technical Institute
Missouri Tax Justice Research Project
Montana Radio Network
Mott Haven ACORN Housing Development Fund Corp.
Mutual Housing Association of New York Inc.
National Center for Jobs & Justice
New Mexico Organizing and Support Center
New Orleans Community Housing Organization
New York ACORN Housing Company Inc.
New York Agency for Community Affairs Inc.
New York Organizing and Support Center
Organizers Forum
Pennsylvania Institute for Community Affairs
People’s Equipment Resource Corp.
Phoenix Organizing And Support Center
Project Vote
SEIU Local 100
SEIU Local 880
Service Workers Action Team
Shreveport Community Television
Site Fighters
Sixth Avenue Corp.
Social Policy
Southern Training Center
St. Louis Organizing And Support Center
St. Louis Tax Reform Group
Student Minimum Wage Action Campaign
Texas ACORN Housing Corp. Inc.
Wal-Mart Workers Association
Wal-Mart Association for Reform Now
Working Families Association

Here's a one word response. . . OWNED!

i second that

Fighter59 wrote:

Pez wrote:

Fighter59 wrote:ACORN has numerous subgroups. They'll simply apply for funds via another organization. It's a tangled web of money and corruption.

tinfoil

Here's a one word response. . . OWNED!

Cite your source?

Fighter59 wrote:

Pez wrote:

Fighter59 wrote:ACORN has numerous subgroups. They'll simply apply for funds via another organization. It's a tangled web of money and corruption.

tinfoil

ACORN affiliates:

[big list]

Here's a one word response. . . OWNED!

Whoa... A big list of companies unattributed to anyone including radio stations and labor unions... Irrefutable evidence of a TANGLED WEB OF MONEY AND CORRUPTION. I cant believe you OWNED me so badly with a quick flip of your copy patse... Joe Macarthy would not be pleased with me for being so naive.

tinfoil.

meta4 wrote:

Fighter59 wrote:

Pez wrote:

Fighter59 wrote:ACORN has numerous subgroups. They'll simply apply for funds via another organization. It's a tangled web of money and corruption.

tinfoil

Here's a one word response. . . OWNED!

Cite your source?

My Source

People, don't be so naive. READ, it's amazing what kind of world you can uncover. You may even be able to string together two or three words like, YOU ARE OWNED.

ACORN is dirty. If is walks like a duck, talks like a duck, is it tinfoil?

Pez wrote:

Fighter59 wrote:

Pez wrote:

Fighter59 wrote:ACORN has numerous subgroups. They'll simply apply for funds via another organization. It's a tangled web of money and corruption.

tinfoil

ACORN affiliates:

[big list]

Here's a one word response. . . OWNED!

Whoa... A big list of companies unattributed to anyone including radio stations and labor unions... Irrefutable evidence of a TANGLED WEB OF MONEY AND CORRUPTION. I cant believe you OWNED me so badly with a quick flip of your copy patse... Joe Macarthy would not be pleased with me for being so naive.

tinfoil.

Generalities and name calling only get you so far. Maybe you need to check some facts once in a while.

Waittaminute... I'm on to something... these companies are part of the fortune 500. Each year they have to post their earnings and financial statements with the SEC. Why? Obviously it's because there is a TANGLED WEB OF MONEY AND CORRUPTION... Obama is the puppetmaster behind the SEC (as everyone who can READ knows)... this is just another attempt by Obama to take control of these companies in order to steal... our... precious... bodily... fluids...

3M Company
Abbott Laboratories
ADM
Advance Auto Parts, Inc.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Aetna Inc.
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.
Aflac Incorporated
AGCO Corporation
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
AK Steel Holding Corporation
Albertson's, Inc.
Alcoa Inc.
Allied Waste Industries, Inc.
ALLTEL Corporation
Altria Group, Inc
Amazon.com, Inc.
Ameren Corporation
American Electric Power Company, Inc.
American Express Company

etc etc...

Pez wrote:Waittaminute... I'm on to something... these companies are part of the fortune 500. Each year they have to post their earnings and financial statements with the SEC. Why? Obviously it's because there is a TANGLED WEB OF MONEY AND CORRUPTION... Obama is the puppetmaster behind the SEC (as everyone who can READ knows)... this is just another attempt by Obama to take control of these companies in order to steal... our... precious... bodily... fluids...

3M Company
Abbott Laboratories
ADM
Advance Auto Parts, Inc.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Aetna Inc.
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.
Aflac Incorporated
AGCO Corporation
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
AK Steel Holding Corporation
Albertson's, Inc.
Alcoa Inc.
Allied Waste Industries, Inc.
ALLTEL Corporation
Altria Group, Inc
Amazon.com, Inc.
Ameren Corporation
American Electric Power Company, Inc.
American Express Company

etc etc...

Nice spin when you don't have a leg to stand on.

Corporate American has little to do with ACORN other than ACORN holds them hostage with radical protest. Read the report. I swear it's like I'm arguing with my brother's kids.

ACORN is dirty, prove they are not. I've proven my point they have a web of affilates to move money which was elequently called, "tinfoil". Or, go drink some more Obama Kool-Aid and STFU!

Fighter... I'm sorry... I'm not arguing that acorn isnt dirty... I'm just deliberately mocking you for my own mild amusement... Did you think I was serious when I brought out the "precious... bodily... fluids?"

And I said tinfoil as a catch all term to indicate anoyone who buys in to a vast government control conspiracy... it's in refernce to a tinfoil hat that one of these individuals might wear to keep government mind control at bay.

lighten up a little... there's no reason this cant be fun.

Just sayin...

rottenacorn.com is a domain registered to Employment Policies Institute

Employment Policies Institute is headed by Richard Berman... and you can read the rest of the bullshit here:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Employment_Policies_Institute

I also recommend you check out this here... another "think tank" mask headed by Mr. Berman mentioned above. Check out the 2005 numbers for CCF, 42% of this non-profit group's income was paid to Rick Berman & Co.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#2005_finances

That's how you properly 'OWNED' something. I prefer the much more classy AYBABTU. A close call nabs you YSIW.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Front_groups

A front group is an organization that purports to represent one agenda while in reality it serves some other party or interest whose sponsorship is hidden or rarely mentioned. The front group is perhaps the most easily recognized use of the third party technique. For example, Rick Berman's Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) claims that its mission is to defend the rights of consumers to choose to eat, drink and smoke as they please. In reality, CCF is a front group for the tobacco, restaurant and alcoholic beverage industries, which provide all or most of its funding.

IMO, a little bit of the pot calling the ACORN black...

meta4 wrote:

IMO, a little bit of the pot calling the ACORN black...

meta4 wrote:AYBABTU

I just got it... +1

meta4 wrote:Just sayin...

rottenacorn.com is a domain registered to Employment Policies Institute

Employment Policies Institute is headed by Richard Berman... and you can read the rest of the bullshit here:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Employment_Policies_Institute

I also recommend you check out this here... another "think tank" mask headed by Mr. Berman mentioned above. Check out the 2005 numbers for CCF, 42% of this non-profit group's income was paid to Rick Berman & Co.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#2005_finances

That's how you properly 'OWNED' something. I prefer the much more classy AYBABTU. A close call nabs you YSIW.

Nice source of your retort:

SourceWatch is a free encyclopedia of people, issues, and groups shaping the public agenda that is being written collaboratively on this web site. It catalogues descriptions and details of PR firms, activist groups and government agencies as well as the criticisms that are made of these groups from different perspectives. (More...)

You may not agree with all of the criticisms, and if you think something that appears here is unfair, you can fix it! The site is a Wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any article right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears in every article.

Instead of shooting the messanger, why not try refuting the message?

Fighter59 wrote:

meta4 wrote:Just sayin...

rottenacorn.com is a domain registered to Employment Policies Institute

Employment Policies Institute is headed by Richard Berman... and you can read the rest of the bullshit here:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Employment_Policies_Institute

I also recommend you check out this here... another "think tank" mask headed by Mr. Berman mentioned above. Check out the 2005 numbers for CCF, 42% of this non-profit group's income was paid to Rick Berman & Co.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#2005_finances

That's how you properly 'OWNED' something. I prefer the much more classy AYBABTU. A close call nabs you YSIW.

Nice source of your retort:

SourceWatch is a free encyclopedia of people, issues, and groups shaping the public agenda that is being written collaboratively on this web site. It catalogues descriptions and details of PR firms, activist groups and government agencies as well as the criticisms that are made of these groups from different perspectives. (More...)

You may not agree with all of the criticisms, and if you think something that appears here is unfair, you can fix it! The site is a Wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any article right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears in every article.

Instead of shooting the messanger, why not try refuting the message?

Well lessee... first SourceWatch is not like Wikipedia, which is completely user sourced content. It does have paid editorial staff. In the future, please do not adlib bullshit you know nothing about or merely assume to know something about.

from the flippin' front page of sourcewatch.org wrote:Welcome to SourceWatch—your guide to the names behind the news. SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. A primary purpose of SourceWatch is documenting the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. SourceWatch also includes profiles on think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Over time, SourceWatch has broadened to include others involved in public debates including media outlets, journalists, government agencies, activists and nongovernmental organizations. Unlike some other wikis, SourceWatch has a policy of strict referencing, and is overseen by a paid editor. SourceWatch has 46,578 articles.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch:Ground_rules - even if it was like Wikipedia, you still have to reference your sources, and if it doesn't prove out the content will be removed. Go ahead and create your own page on sourcewatch stating that ACORN is a tangled web of corruption... lessee how long it lasts!

Furthermore, I believe the burden of proof is upon you to support your accusations: that ACORN is a tangled web of government waste and corruption and additionally (for extra credit) that they have an agenda or marching orders to seek additional government funds or grants through their "network". If I recall correctly, this thread started with the vote to pull their funding so if you could so kindly revolve around that general topic - funding... that'd be just incredible.

Fighter59 wrote:Instead of shooting the messanger, why not try refuting the message?

Because that's the same thought terminating cliche that is over used by the militant neocon newstainment industry. Prove UFO's aren't real... Prove JFK was not assassinated by a lone gunman...

Fighter59 wrote:

meta4 wrote:Just sayin...

rottenacorn.com is a domain registered to Employment Policies Institute

Employment Policies Institute is headed by Richard Berman... and you can read the rest of the bullshit here:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Employment_Policies_Institute

I also recommend you check out this here... another "think tank" mask headed by Mr. Berman mentioned above. Check out the 2005 numbers for CCF, 42% of this non-profit group's income was paid to Rick Berman & Co.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#2005_finances

That's how you properly 'OWNED' something. I prefer the much more classy AYBABTU. A close call nabs you YSIW.

Nice source of your retort:

SourceWatch is a free encyclopedia of people, issues, and groups shaping the public agenda that is being written collaboratively on this web site. It catalogues descriptions and details of PR firms, activist groups and government agencies as well as the criticisms that are made of these groups from different perspectives. (More...)

You may not agree with all of the criticisms, and if you think something that appears here is unfair, you can fix it! The site is a Wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any article right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears in every article.

Instead of shooting the messanger, why not try refuting the message?

your source exists soley to bring down acorn.. and its more credible than sourcewatch?? i will have to watch for someone other than faux to have something about it. maybe its true..or maybe it isnt. i want to see a reputable (imho) source before i make a comment on it.

I guess over 80% of the senate watches Foxnews since they voted to defund ACORN.

Kroman wrote:I guess over 80% of the senate watches Foxnews since they voted to defund ACORN.

Or maybe they think for themselves... it's obvious to me that ACORN is a corrupt piece of shit... I dont need Fox to tell me that.

meta4 wrote:

Fighter59 wrote:Instead of shooting the messanger, why not try refuting the message?

Because that's the same thought terminating cliche that is over used by the militant neocon newstainment industry. Prove UFO's aren't real... Prove JFK was not assassinated by a lone gunman...

There are undercover tapes of ACORN assisting in evading taxes, setting up brothels, trafficking underage girls across the border, etc. Not to mention the numerous states with indictments dealing in voter fraud, yet you still want evidence? Exactly what smoking gun are you looking for?

It's not a cliche when there's evidence to back it up. Turn the news dial once in a while. Because the Obama News Networks don't report it, that doesn't mean it didn't occur? I love how you compare ACORN to UFO's, right down the tinfoil road huh? Drink up sheep!