Both the Senate and U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly this week to cut off federal funding to ACORN in the wake of explosive undercover videos showing workers for the organization promoting prostitution and tax fraud, among other things. U.S. Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) joined 74 of his Democratic colleagues in opposing a Republican-authored amendment to student aid legislation to cut off all federal funding for the controversial organization. Why am I not surprised? All other senators and representatives from Indiana voted to cut off funding to the organization.
UPDATE: It turns out that prostitution goes hand in hand with ACORN's government-funded activities across the country. NPR's Jim Geraghty picks up on prostitution-related arrests involving ACORN workers across the country, including Cincinnati, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Albuquerque. Notice how the arrests are concentrated in battleground states in last year's presidential election. Why none in Indiana? Were they too busy with their vote fraud activities to take time out for prostitution?
...more embarrassing behavior from "Our Fool on Capitol Hill"
ReplyDeleteNow why would you be shocked? Even on the council he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. I wish he would follow in his grandmothers footsteps better and skip more votes.
ReplyDeleteHe had just filled the seat on the Indy city-council just before his yes vote on then Mayor Peterson's budget and doubtful if he even read it yet voted in lockstep with the Ds. Don't expect any independent thinking from this tool.
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Carson isn't sharp enough to be considered a tool.
Indiana is becoming laughing stock in Washington DC with this chump representing Indianapolis. When will the people wake up? We deserve better.
Kid Carson knows those who made him can break him, so he's not going to cross them.
ReplyDeleteI can see the anti Carson campaign signs now...
ReplyDeleteAndre Carson a man of the people. Carson supports Prostitution & Pimps.
'Andre Carson' is an anagram of 'ACORN snared' (seriously!)
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ReplyDeleteChris Wallace and Rep. Darrell Issa had an *ahem* 'interesting' chat with Bertha Lewis today on Wallace's FOXNEWS show.
She's sidestepped on most every question. Wallace, showing some hints of his Dad's skills, kept dragging her back and not wandering off the path with her.
It was astonishingly important to her to repeatedly mention the '500,000' people that ACORN represents.
She wouldn't even look Issa in the eye to defend herself or her organization. It wasn't clear to me if she was even looking at Wallace when she spoke.
A representative of the United States House of Representatives remains in support of a theoretically non-partisan taxpayer-funded organization. The only problem: This group was the launching pad for our Democratic President, is currently under investigation for multiple instances of illegal voter registration, caught on video-tape promoting prostitution and tax fraud, understandably pulled from participation in our national census, and now has had all funding cut-off by Congress - An impossibility without concurrence by their own majority party of the stark, bumbling, unlawful, arrogance of their "community organization".
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Is it possible that a candidate of usually acceptable qualities regarding party, race, sex, or religion is unsuitable? I no longer vote for Burton in the 5th. Is there anybody that comes to mind in the 7th district?
Was the cut-off for Acorn only for future funding?
ReplyDeleteSecondly, I'm wondering how many Hoosier $ were allocated separately by our State toward Acorn. I ask because other states, like Pa. gave $200,000.00 and their House tried to get it back but the Pa.House democrates like Acorn.
http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/21/acorn-got-over-200k-of-pa-taxpayer-money-probably-getting-more/