I posted this in another thread but this pretty much sums it up. The first bailout bill (thankfully defeated) would have given 20% of the profits of
government real estate sales to these guys above and beyond the millions of taxpayer money they get to rig our elections already.
ACORN gets $500 million/yr from taxpayers
theunionnews.blogspot.com...
MR. GINGRICH: Well, the last time we were promised they were going to save us, it was $300 billion; it was a housing bill. And what liberal Democrats
in Congress did, for example, was add $500 million a year for a left-wing activist group called Acorn. Now, I can’t imagine why we’d want the
taxpayer to give $500 million a year to a left-wing activist group, but it’s in the bill which the Bush administration signed and that was only back
in July and that was going to solve everything. That was $300 billion ago.
Now we have a brand-new, liberal Democrats, many of whom, for example, Chris Dodd, was the largest single recipient of money from Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac and he is the chairman of the Banking Committee. So the guy who got the most money is now going to write a bill to give taxpayers money to
the people who gave him money. Somehow, I am not reassured.
hotair.com...
www.examiner.com...
A federal grand jury in Kansas City indicted four persons working for the group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, accusing them
of submitting more than 15,000 voter registration forms with fictitious names, phony signatures and bogus addresses. (So many examples in the link)
ACORN is a liberal advocacy group that claims to speak for the poor and minorities — running these voter registration drives no doubt to prime the
pump for an Election Day voter turnout operation that includes multiple voting by the same people at different precincts in a state with a tightly
contested Senate race.
But ACORN also runs big-money community development corporations. The federal government supported ACORN housing programs to the tune of $2.6 million
in 2003-04. That led Republicans to support efforts to prohibit Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from subsidizing ACORN’s voter registration drives.
Democrats resisted Republican efforts to restrict ACORN Housing Corporation funding, arguing that community development could rightly include
registering new voters at their new addresses. But Republicans prevailed in adding voter registration restrictions to the Federal Housing Finance
Reform Act.
