Great. Now where will pimps and whores go to get advice on tax evasion?
The House voted Thursday to deny all federal funds for ACORN in a GOP-led strike against the scandal-tainted community organizing group that comes just three days after the Senate took similar action. “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,” said second-ranked House Republican Eric Cantor of Virginia.
The vote, on a provision attached to a student aid bill, was 345-75, with Democrats supplying all the “no” votes.
On Monday the Senate voted 83-7 to deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Republicans accelerated their attacks on the liberal-leaning group a year ago when ACORN, in conducting a massive voter registration drive, was accused of submitting some false registration forms.
On a hidden-camera video released on Monday, two ACORN employees are seen apparently advising a couple that was posing as a prostitute and her pimp to lie about her profession and launder her earnings. The video was the latest in a series that has already led to the firing of four ACORN employees in Baltimore and Washington. It was created by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles and posted on BigGovernment.com, where O’Keefe identifies himself as an activist filmmaker.
It’s telling that, even after ACORN got caught helping what they thought was a pimp and a prostitute cheat on taxes, 75 Democrats STILL voted against defunding the group. 75 Democrats think it’s perfectly alright for a group that essentially got caught in conspiracy to commit a federal felony to receive taxpayer funds. There’s something seriously, seriously wrong with the Democrat Party.
It should be interesting to see what the President does with this, since he was the one who resisted calls to remove ACORN funding from Porkulus earlier this year. The House and the Senate both have more than enough votes to override a veto. Obama surely won’t be so stupid as to set himself up for a crushing political defeat over something so ridiculous as a “community organizing” group, will he?
