A bill to cut off funds to ACORN may hit the president’s desk soon. You can get a plethora of numbers regarding the funds funneled to ACORN. Since they get state and local monies, it’s hard to nail down. A Wall Street Journal editorial 9-21-09 put it at over $8 billion. I’m sure that includes contract monies to participate in the 2010 census, not funds received.
President Obama, on ABC Sunday, said he was unaware ACORN had ever received any Federal funds. Since he was an attorney for ACORN, this is really hard to believe. But, Obama did not go on record saying he was calling for an investigation of ACORN to look after our tax dollars. Will the Attorney General investigate? Obama did say the Holder investigation into the CIA is out of his hands. It’s Holder’s call, per Obama.
Based on his record, Holder will give ACORN a pass. He gave the New Black Panthers who terrorized a polling place in November a pass.
If ACORN has been operating as an illegal enterprise and involved in laundering money, skimming taxpayer dollars, and election fraud, it seems like a pretty big criminal enterprise closely aligned to politicians and the SEIU union, and worth a look from the Attorney General.
Jimmy Carter played the race card on health care and to his credit Obama dismissed this. Carter was not only the worst sitting president of my lifetime, he’s the worst since he stopped sitting. His judgment remains flawed.
The ACORN opportunity gives Eric Holder an opportunity to prove the office of Attorney General is not giving a minority enterprise a pass. Some have suggested he did just that in the Black Panther case. This has much higher visibility and his treatment of this will be watched more carefully. If Jimmy Carter can keep his mouth shut on this, we can make our own judgments of Holder’s objectivity on this issue. The race card works both ways.
There will be pressure both ways on Holder. Let’s hope he does the right thing.
FACTS MATTER
Here today, you’ve repeated your outlandish claim that ACORN has received over $8 BILLION in federal contracts. Since you pointed out that your source for this was a 9/21 WSJ editorial, I searched WSJ for it and found nothing that mentions ANY dollar amount except for this article ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204518504574418990878385818.html ) published on 9/17 which states “Senator Susan Collins and Rep. Darrell Issa have called for the inspectors general of HUD, SBA and the Corporation for National and Community Service to investigate federal monies sent to Acorn, estimated at $53 million since 1994.”
Since you’ve previously stated that you get your info from newsmax.com (no biased reporting there), I searched them too. Here, I do find reference to a sum similar to yours. However, you have misrepresented newsmax as well. In their articles, there is constant reference to the fact that community organizations, like ACORN, are ELIGIBLE TO COMPETE for up to $8.5 Billion in grants available within the 2009 stimulus package for various activities throughout the country. And I found NO claim, even in newsmax, that suggested that ACORN had actually won any of those grants. Perhaps you should read the articles rather than just the headlines.
Look, as I have said before, I am no fan of ACORN and I am not, at all, defending them. I was disappointed to learn that my two senators were among the few that voted against the recent bill.
However, your readers deserve better than the fictional accounts you present to fit the narrative you want to deliver.
FACTS MATTER.
Hey Chris:
The Wall Street Journal article was dated 9-16-09. I was using the 9-21-09 article to reference the Obama campaign contributions to ACORN. The article is titled ACORN Live! The dollar amount referenced is $8.5 billion, the amount ACORN stands to get in stimulus money. Facts do count, so get your right.
Bill Robertson
By the way Chris, I want the Attorney General to investigate ACORN, not someone of their chosing or someone from your left wing. The law, if Holder represents that.
Bill
I could care less about who investigates ACORN. ACORN is a pimple on the butt of the United States. $53 million over 15 years is nothing and we should all just be happy that the zit has been squeezed, the puss is ozzing out and the insignificant wound will heal. Let’s move on to stuff that is actually important.
All ACORN was prepared to do was to take a huge amount of money to rig the 2010 census. I guess if it’s rigged in favor of you flaming liberals it’s a pimple. You dont’ respond to the number used by the Wall Street Journal. Your crappy google search is more relevant than the Journal. Give me a break.