The Senate voted to cut off ACORN Housing funds following the release of three videotapes that show employees of the activist group advising a "pimp" and "prostitute" on how to break the law.

The amendment, offered by Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns, passed in a vote of 83 to 7 and prohibits the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now from receiving funds from the current Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. It marks the third time this year Republicans tried to block the organization from federal funding.

The latest vote comes on the heels of the release of hidden-camera videos showing workers in three separate ACORN housing offices apparently helping a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute evade the IRS and apply for an illegal housing loan for a brothel.

ACORN Housing Corporation received $1.6 million to provide housing services to low-income communities in this fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, according to USASpending.gov, a federal government Web site for tracking government grants.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Grants has given $8.2 million to ACORN in the years between 2003 and 2006, as well as $1.6 million to ACORN affiliates.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the offices shown in the videos had received any of ACORN's federal grant money for housing services.

Thank you, Fox News for keeping this covered. Lord knows, the other News Channels didn't give it any time at all. Wonder why.

Are we going to be able to get our money back?

Brooklyn DA is going to investigate the whole office.

Good! I wonder if Al "not so" Sharpton is gonna come out and call this an outrageous act of racism?

Did Glenn Beck really call this one?

Supposedly there is even something bigger coming out about this story tomorrow.

Probably because you were not paying attention to the other channels, Willing. I saw the whole thing on msnbc, as well as cnn and fox.

Considering I saw when investigating this myself today the people seem to be setting ACORN up on some of this stuff. Maybe that is why Faux news posts it, it is faux news....lol

Minor detail--- Give em more money--There doing a vital service to us old guy's!!!

Source(s):
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/feb/02/john-boehner/theory-acorn-could-compete-some-home-rebuilding-mo/
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/02/the-stimulus-bill-and-acorn/
http://2010.census.gov/partners/partners/


here are some links to the truth about stimulus money going to acorn and if they were being paid for census help they were providing

For those who know faux news couldn't tell the true story if it hit them in the face.

Funny I was thinking about John Beohner this morning remembering him rolling his eyes and making faces during Obama's speech last week. Poor guy needed water to prevent the fire escaping through the top of his head he was so irritated. He's also either a very bad liar, or he just doesn't bother with facts like his other senate buddies.

They have BSCNN on in the cafeterias at the two campuses I attend and I have yet to see wolf blitzer talk about ACORN

Wolf isn't the only one at cnn.

Considering I saw when investigating this myself today the people seem to be setting ACORN up on some of this stuff. Maybe that is why Faux news posts it, it is faux news....lol


My I ask, What's your definition of setting them up?

If they dig deep enough, they will uncover the BHO connection.


ACORN Requests Congressional Oversight Panel Hearing on TARP Recipients' Compliance with Obama Foreclosure Plan
April 09, 2009

(Washington, DC) – ACORN has written a letter to the Congressional Oversight Panel requesting a hearing to gauge TARP recipients' compliance with the Obama Administration's "Making Home Affordable" foreclosure-prevention plan. In a letter to the Panel's chairwoman, Professor Elizabeth Warren, ACORN noted that mortgage servicing companies are notoriously opposed to any sort of transparency and accountability in their foreclosure protocols. The Congressional Oversight Panel is uniquely positioned to provide this accountability and to ensure that the Obama Administration's goal of preventing 3 to 4 million unnecessary foreclosures in the coming years is realized. This will require not just a commitment from the mortgage CEOs, but also a thorough and deep implementation of best practices in foreclosure prevention throughout each company.

"Professor Warren and her fellow members of the Congressional Oversight Panel have already done tremendous work to bring real oversight to the bailout," said Maude Hurd, ACORN President. "Now their leadership is again needed to assist millions of struggling families who are fighting to save their homes and unable to get a reasonable offer from their lender or even get a decision-maker on the phone. The mortgage industry is broken, and it will not be easy to fix, but the Obama Administration's bold plan is a great start."

Yupper, associate Obama with anything and everything you can. You have the goal down pat...

Well, well, well.... it's about dog gone time. ACORN is a disgrace, they showed their true colors during this past pathetic election.

My two cents.

I know but he never mentioned it and he's always on when I see that abomination of "news"!

ACORN is a disgrace, they showed their true colors of change. Had to add that part.

I'm not going to post it nut there is yet another video of ACORN crooks telling the Filmmaker and his alleged ho how to cheat the government, this time in San Bernadino!