ACORN Running Amuck

ACORN has been around for quite awhile.  In fact, President Obama, during his community organizer days used to work with ACORN training their “volunteers”.  I first became aware of their existence when in Washington there would periodically be groups of protesters in red t-shirts led by people with bullhorns loudly protesting legislation being considered by Congress.  As I remember, they were always on the Left – against welfare reform, against tax cuts, against the balanced-budget amendment, against whatever military action our country was involved in, etc. 

Much of the American public first became exposed to ACORN in the last election cycle.  There were extensive allegations of voter registration fraud all across the country.  Despite these allegations (and a number of convictions) the Obama Administration decided to involve ACORN in the upcoming 2010 census.  Imagine that, the United States Constitution states that every 10 years we must count every person in this country, and that count is used to determine how many Representatives each state is entitled to, how much federal money should go to each state etc., and we’re going to trust ACORN to do it fairly and accurately! 

Fortunately, the Census Bureau finally came to its senses (pun intended) last Friday and sent a letter to ACORN severing all ties on the census.  The letter read in part, “over the last several months… ACORN’s affiliation with the 2010 census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 census efforts.  We no longer have confidence that our national partnership agreement is being effectively managed through your many local offices… we therefore have decided to terminate the partnership.” 

Maybe it had something to do with the fact that several intrepid free lance undercover reporters (aged 25 and 20) caught ACORN employees in several cities willingly giving advice on how to skirt the law and launder earnings from an underage illegal immigrant prostitution ring.  Business as usual?

This is also the same ACORN that has received millions of federal tax dollars over the years for various “services” and was slated to receive billions more in the so-called economic stimulus package (which Steve Driehaus voted for).  ACORN has become so discredited that even the U.S. Senate recently voted 83 to 7 to stop HUD funding from going to ACORN.

Of course when an organization is this plugged in to the powers-that-be in Washington, and so many potential votes are at stake, I wouldn’t advise writing them off just yet.  Although a number of Republican Congressmen are calling for investigations, Democrats being in the majority now control what’s investigated and what’s not.  And this is one they may well sweep under the rug, and hope that the mainstream press (which has for the most part once again ignored a story that’s embarrassing to the Left) will quickly lose interest.  Stay tuned. 

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