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.