Save America

September 15, 2009 By Save America

The Senate has voted overwhelmingly to strip ACORN of funding in the Transportation/Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced the amendment. ACORN, Obama’s community organizing group has also come under fire from several voter-registration fraud cases. This latest action came after after two conservative activists posed as a prostitute and her pimp revealing camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore, Brooklyn, Washington D.C.( and another to be released), gave advise on house buying and how to account on tax forms for income from the prostitution business. Obama appointee, Robert Grove reacted and sent off a letter, notifying the national ACORN headquarters he is severing all ties with this group for all 2010 census work. Ummm, yeah..right, so while the FBI investigations and all of Acorn’s corruption charges couldn’t sway Obama and his devotion to his pet community organizing group….two twentyish activists armed with a hidden camera, a great story line would crush this group’s coziness with the President of the United States of America. Amazing………

ACORN’S reaction? Typically…….Sherona Boone and volunteer mortgage consultant Lavernia Boone were toast, after advising these stealth reporters how to fleece taxpayer’s money. The Radke brother’s on ACORN’s top certainly don’t want the smoke to rise.

Interestingly, a week ago, Senator Johanns wouldn’t have gotten this amendment to the floor. However, after the video exposes’ of ACORN offices in these three locations offered assistance to the pimping, tax evasion and trafficking in underage Salvadorian girls, Senator Johanns not only got his vote, but an unprecedented (of late) bipartisan showing. The Senate passed the amendment 83-7. ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer funds since 1994, and under Obama’s $850 billion Stimulus package additional monies would be funneled to ACORN.

Initially, a half dozen Democrats cast votes in opposition to the amendment.  But, as more and more Democrat’s signed onto the amendment votes started changing. Among those who spoke up to change their votes were:

Herb Kohl (D-WI), Tom Udall (D-MN) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ).

The list of seven nays of Senators (all Democrats) who were willing to stand with ACORN are:

1). Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.

2). Roland Burris, D-IL

3). Dick Durbin, D-IL

4). Bernie Sanders, D-VT

5). Patrick Leahy, D-VT

6). Bob Casey, D-PA

7). Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.

Let’s hope these five States are paying attention and remember these individuals come Nov. 2010…….and the nine Senators who didn’t have the courage to vote, including (John McCain).

1). Burr (R-NC)

2). Byrd (D-WV)

3). Coburn (R-OK)

4). Graham (R-SC)

5). Gregg (R-NH)

6). Hutchinson (R-TX)

7). McCain (R-AZ)

8). Mikulski (D-MD)

9). Vitter (R-LA)

These nine Senators will require a close eye in the next year if they have hopes of re-election. We’ll be following them and let you know.

The big question is whether the House will follow, Nancy Pelosi may not be inclined to let an amendment come to the floor.  The big test will be if Johanns amendment survives or will the Democrats try and strip out this provision later in this House-Senate committee.  Unfortunately, this isn’t over yet. What is the matter with these people?

A big Kudos to James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles having the courage and tenacity to take this project on……..and what they’ve exposed. It seems the “power of the people” is actually growing, as we saw in the documented number of 1.7 MILLION patriots in the 9/12 Washington March. Yet the big budget offices of MSN, CBS, ABC AND NBC missed out of the bold exposes and the biggest march on Washington by the “Joe Blows” of America.

The only coverage we’ll see is the continued silence except for the predictable ACORN crying foul, insinuating the video tapes were altered and the Baltimore States Attorney considering investigating and prosecuting O’Keefe and Giles for “illegal wiretapping”.

Not too upside down……the kind of mortgage fraud that played a part in tanking the US Housing market and the “establishment” prefers to focus on two young activists. Seems in American politics these days, morality gets thrown out the window.  What a pathetic group of individuals.