From FOX News:
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann called on Congress Thursday to block ACORN’s access to federal housing funds, citing repeated charges of voter registration fraud against the low-income advocacy group.
The Republican congresswoman, flanked by an ACORN whistleblower and an attorney who worked on an ACORN case in Pennsylvania, escalated a media offensive against the group, which is a favorite target of conservatives who claim liberals are unjustly protecting a dysfunctional organization by allowing it access to taxpayer money.
“ACORN, as you know, is no stranger to the spotlight,” Bachmann said outside the Capitol. “Yet no matter how many times prosecutors investigate and even indict ACORN and their employees, they emerge unblemished as far as the federal government is concerned from having access to federal tax dollars.”
Bachmann, who hit the same themes in an op-ed in the Washington Times on Wednesday, complained that House Democrats killed her amendment to block organizations indicted for voter fraud from receiving federal housing money. She said ACORN has received at least $53 million in tax dollars since 1994, and that she will have new legislation in the coming weeks.
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Anita MonCrief, a former ACORN worker, echoed Bachmann in describing the advocacy group as a sham. She said senior staffers train employees to avoid asking whether people are already registered to vote when they sign up residents, resulting in “thousands and thousands” of duplicates, and criminal problems for the employees.
“The employees were being thrown under the bus,” she said. “[Senior staff] stood on the backs of the poor in order to make money for their organization.” [Read More]
Bachmann’s call echoes a call made by many former and current ACORN employees looking to save the organization and return it to its original mission. The partnership of conservatives and Republicans with former ACORN organizers is unexpected, but they are joined on a basic commonsense level–To protect American voters, taxpayers, and the poor from ACORN’s corrupt and criminal leaders.
Anita MonCrief (quoted in the article above) has been doing the dirty work in exposing the ACORN scam artists on her must-read blog.
