Amid recent controversy of offering their counseling services to "pimps" and "prostitutes" in three separate cities (which included turning their head on possible teenage sex trades too), ACORN, the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now, lost some of its government funding today.
In what can be truly be called a bipartisan effort, the Johanns amendment has blocked over 169 millions dollars previously granted to ACORN in the original transportation and housing appropriations bill. It passed by an 83-7 vote by the Senate.
This is the latest in bad news for the organization which just last week was informed by the US Census Bureau that its services were no longer needed as ACORN was slated to be one of several organizations to assist with the upcoming 2010 census. As if that was not enough, ACORN also had 11 employees arrested last week in Miami for falsifying hundreds of voter registration forms.
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President Obama said to judge him by the company he keeps, well, how are your friends at Acorn doing? Kudos to the Senators who voted to defund Acorn. Lets vote out the senators at the next election who didn't. We need to get rid of government corruption, I think we gave Acorn 5.2 billion in the last stimulus package. ENOUGH ALREADY!!
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Burris (D-IL)
Casey (D-PA)
Durbin (D-IL) Gillibrand (D-NY)
Leahy (D-VT)
Sanders (I-VT) Whitehouse (D-RI)
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