Category: ACORN

Betcha you didn’t know the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania gives tax dollars to groups that:

• Actively manage a political campaign
• Solicit or handle political contributions
• Solicit votes
• Endorse or oppose candidates
• Circulate partisan nominating petitions
• Organize partisan voter registration drives
Well it does and an attempt by State Rep. Steve Barrar (R-160) to fix those things was was defeated, yesterday, after Democrats in the Pennsylvania House voted unanimously not to even consider the motion which would have amended the state Fiscal Code.

The vote was 102-94 to protect ACORN.

Jack Potter from the office of State Rep. Seth Grove (R-196) has said that ACORN has received $200,000 in state Community and Economic Development grants since 2007.

Barrar, on July 30, introduced House Resolution 426 that was a formal request to state Attorney General to investigate ACORN. It was referred to the  State Government Committee. It’s chaired by Babette Josephs, a Philadelphia Democrat. She’s a member of ACORN. Not much has happened regarding the request.

The ACORN scandal has finally broken into the trad media.

Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial, of course, was basically an apology for the scandal-plagued organization despite the headline. The opinion of the Delaware County Daily Times, however, supported cutting off the group’s federal gravy train and express astonishment that our Sen. Bob Casey (D) was one of the few that didn’t.

The Times also carried a column by Gil Spencer raking ACORN over the coals.

On the heels of an overwhelming by the U.S. Senate, the House also voted to cut federal money to the disgraced Obama-connected ACORN.

The tally was 345 to 75. All dissenters were Democrats.

Our own Joe Sestak, however, was one of the Ds who voted to cut the funds. You can bet, however, he hadn’t read about the scandals in the Inquirer or Daily Times. Congratulations Joe for doing the right thing. Hopefully, it wasn’t simple payback for Obama’s endorsement of Arlen Specter.

PaWatercooler.com as per GrassrootsPa.com has reported the Democrats in the State House foiled an attempt by Rep. Seth Grove (R-196) to cut state money to ACORN.

Ignoring the obvious question as to why ACORN should be getting any state money where does the state have any money to give the corrupt organization?

The Senate just passed a bill, 83-7, to strip fed funding from ACORN, according to HotAir.com The seven dissenters included our own Little Bobby Casey (D).

Of course, the bill still must be passed by the House and signed by President Obama (yeah, right) but congrats to James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles for exposing the corruption.