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| AG Holder says ACORN can get federal money anyway |
| 2009-11-28 |
| A top House Republican today blasted a ruling by the Justice Department that allows the Obama administration to pay ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress passed a law banning the community advocacy group from receiving taxpayers money. I commented at the time that this vampire was far from dead... Republicans have been on the warpath against ACORN since its voter registration efforts came under scrutiny during the 2008 presidential campaign. After conservative activists, who posed as a prostitute and pimp, released videos appearing to show ACORN staffers advising them how to skirt the law, Democrats joined in the outrage, leading to the congressional funding ban that Obama signed on Oct. 1. Didn't think anyone would notice? Since 1994, ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has received about $53 million in federal aid, much of it in grants to help poor people obtain affordable housing. The Justice Department asked whether the funding ban applied to prior contracts. In a ruling first reported by the New York Times, a department lawyer said the payments under prior contracts should continue because the language of the law did not expressly wipe them out. What the heck were they expressing then? But Representative Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said "the bipartisan intent of Congress was clear -- no more federal dollars should flow to ACORN." "But that a bill of attainder!" "It is telling that this administration continues to look for every excuse possible to circumvent the intent of Congress," Issa said in a statement. "Taxpayers should not have to continue subsidizing a criminal enterprise that helped Barack Obama get elected president. The politicization of the Justice Department to payback one of the presidentÂ’s political allies is shameful and amounts to nothing more than old-fashioned cronyism." The number of 'own-goals' this administration is scoring is surprising and even a bit unsettling. |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #4 Right now, a RICO suit has been filed against ACORN for over a year now, and probably amended several times to include new revelations. I would add a bit to it to enjoin the use of any federal monies by ACORN in the lawsuit, by adding those monies to the damages. This would mean that any money paid to ACORN by the feds would be frozen until the lawsuit was concluded. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-11-28 17:31 |
| #3 Maybe someone should send a brochure on the John Mitchell wing of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to Mr. Holder and company. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-11-28 10:14 |
| #2 Since 1994, ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has received about $53 million in federal aid So we are all footing the bill for these thugs and their criminal activities. By the way who was the AG who served time? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-11-28 09:51 |
| #1 The worst AG in US history, even worse than the one that was put in prison. |
| Posted by: newc 2009-11-28 08:45 |