Not that anyone didn’t see this coming with at least 20 states now looking into bringing criminal charges against the organization, but the House of Representatives has just voted on a measure that effectively “defunded” ACORN at the federal level.
This in no way means that this scandalous group is gone, but it does at least mean that your tax dollars won’t go to pay for it. It also makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for even the most liberal of Dems to stand behind the group. Wonder how President Obama is going to distance himself??
The US House today joined the Senate in voting to defund ACORN, the community advocacy group beset by allegations of voter registration fraud and videotapes apparently showing employees advising conservative activists posing as a prostitute and pimp how to break the law.
The measure, offered as part of a motion on a student loan bill, passed by a vote of 345-75, according to the office of House Republican leader John Boehner.
The Senate voted earlier this week to withdraw housing and urban development funding. Last week, the Census Bureau severed ties with ACORN, which on Wednesday said it is suspending accepting new clients and launching an investigation.
But congressional Republicans are calling for all federal funds to be cut off and for a Justice Department investigation.
“ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that taxpayer dollars would no longer be used to fund this corrupt organization. All federal ties should be severed with ACORN, and the FBI should investigate its activity,” Representative Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican said in a statement. “This united Republican effort to defund ACORN is a victory for the rule of law and taxpayers across the country.”
Here’s the Losers list – the shady folks who voted no or present
The no votes as posted on Michellemalkin.com:
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
Sánchez, Linda T.
Schakowsky
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Stark
Thompson (MS)
Towns
Tsongas
Velázquez
Waters
Watson
Waxman
Wexler
Woolsey
The “presents”
Hastings (FL)
Watt
And not voting:
Abercrombie
Barrett (SC)
Clarke
Connolly (VA)
Costa
Frank (MA)
McHugh
Nunes
They should all get replaced. That list should be plastered on a billboard entitled – “your tax dollars at work.” They can’t bring themselves to vote to kill the funding for the group that stuffed ballot boxes to get them elected.
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