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Senate Just Cut Off a Major Portion of the Funding for ACORN

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Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:16 AM

Subject: Senate just cut off a major portion of the funding for ACORN

This is breaking news, the Senate just cut off a major portion of the funding for ACORN, it was 11 to 1 (83-7) in favor of the cutoff. This is an amazing victory, a David and Goliath story. This means almost all the Democrats have voted for defunding ACORN, a pillar of their party and Obama's former long term employer. This was unthinkable a week ago. This also indicates that even though ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, and WP all are doing everything they can to censor this, that the majority of Statist Senators feel that the protection of the Pretend Media is not going to work this time.

Right now Lou Dobbs is reporting the full story, child sex slaves from El Salvador included. So CNN viewers now are finding out what happened.

Glenn Beck said today that his show tomorrow will focus on even more damaging info on ACORN than has been revealed so far. It is hard to imagine what that could be.

The brave young reporters that have exposed this problem, are now being threatened with 5 years of prison by Maryland. Maryland has not said anything about ACORN being in trouble for supporting the future creation of a brothel for underage girls. The State instead is going after the heroes in this case, because they used a secret camera to expose the criminality of ACORN.

At this point it looks like these two brave reporters are literally going to take down ACORN. An organization that Obama six months ago earmarked for $8 billion of our money.

It is great to see truth win one big time.

God bless, Dana Allen

American Media Revolution

This is another link about the censorship: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/14/dan-gainor-acorn-media-ignore/

Breaking: Senate votes to cut off federal funding for ACORN; Update: Child-Whoring Pimp Assistance 7 identified; Update: Brooklyn DA “taking a look”

posted at 6:03 pm on September 14, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

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Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced an amendment to the HUD and Transportation appropriation bill to strip ACORN of all federal funding. A week ago, Johanns wouldn’t have gotten the amendment to the floor. Today, however, after three straight days of BigGovernment.com’s video exposés of ACORN offices in Washington DC, New York City, and Baltimore offering assistance to pimping, tax evasion, and trafficking in underage Salvadorean girls, Johanns not only got his vote — but he got an impressive bipartisan showing. The Senate passed the Johanns amendment 83-7.

At the beginning of the vote, it appeared that Democrats might resist. Initially, a half-dozen Democrats cast votes in opposition to the amendment. A few more cast votes against it as the rest of the Senate voted, but the tide appeared to shift. More and more Democrats signed onto the amendment, and votes started changing. One male voice could be heard in the chamber saying, “I want to change my vote!” Among those who changed their votes: Tom Udall (D-NM), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Herb Kohl (D-WI).

I do not have the official roll call record of the vote yet, but three of the seven Democrats voting against the bill were Dick Durbin (D-IL), Roland Burris (D-IL), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT). I’ll get the rest in a few minutes, but it’s worth repeating what Jim Geraghty said on the Twitter stream: “Who were the seven Child-Whoring Pimp Assistance Program defenders?”

The big question will be whether the House follows suit. Nancy Pelosi may not be inclined to let an amendment come to the floor, but James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles may not be done yet, either. A few more of these videos and even Pelosi will have little choice but to slam the door on ACORN. The big test will be whether the Johanns amendment survives a conference committee. This isn’t over yet.

Update: Thanks to Sean Hackbarth, we have the list of seven nays on the amendment so that the Child-Whoring Pimp Assitance 7 can be publicly identified:

Dick Durbin (D-IL)

Roland Burris (D-IL)

Robert Casey (D-PA)

Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)

Patrick Leahy (D-VT)

Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

So can we assume that Illinois and Vermont are especially sympathetic to child-whoring pimp assistance?

Update (AP): Man, this house of cards is toppling fast:

Meanwhile, Jerry Schmetterer, director of public information for the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, told FOXNews.com that officials will be “taking a look” into Brooklyn’s ACORN office.

“We are going to be taking a look at the situation,” Schmetterer said Monday.

A spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said ACORN’S tax status as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization should also be probed.

“We’ve already seen the Census Bureau severe its tie with ACORN,” the spokesman, Kurt Bardella, told FOXNews.com. “Certainly, as an organization being subsidized by taxpayer dollars, their relationship with other government entities should be called into question, and whether or not it’s appropriate for them to receive taxpayer dollars.”

Has The One opened his mouth yet to say anything about his pals being in such dire straits?

Update (Ed): The vote has been posted and can be found here.

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