Posted on 06/05/2009 4:21:24 AM PDT by Brytani
The petition
Since 1997, ACORN has received more than $53 million in direct federal funding. And, over the years, ACORN and its employees have also been the subject of investigations, indictments, and consent decrees in states all across the nation for election-related activities that run afoul of the law.
This isn’t a political witch hunt, as many Democrats claim. The prosecutors who have brought the charges against ACORN and its employees are both Republican and Democrat. They’re doing their jobs, enforcing the law and protecting the integrity of the voting process.
Yet even as fresh charges were being filed against ACORN and its employees in Nevada and Pennsylvania, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives worked to protect the stream of tax dollars to this organization. They stripped down language that I had put in a mortgage reform bill (HR 1728) – language that would have ensured that Congress sets a high bar for who has access to your tax dollars.
Congress and the Administration have been on a spending spree with your money, racking up trillion dollar deficits for years down the road. If Congress can’t draw the line here – if they can’t say that an organization repeatedly charged with violating the law and public trust should not have access to federal funds – where will they draw the line?
I urge you to sign this petition and join me in the fight to protect your tax dollars from being used and abused.
--Rep. Michele Bachmann
Speaker Pelosi, I think that Congress has a duty to the taxpayers to keep our hard-earned money out of the hands of those who play fast and loose with the law. I urge you to bring Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act to the floor and to support its passage. I want to know if you are on the taxpayer’s side … or ACORN’s.
Rep. Bachmann has placed a petition on her sit that is asking Nancy Pelosi to immediately bring Rep. Bachmann's bill, Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act, to the floor for immediate vote. She was discussing this petition yesterday on Mark Levin's show.
As Rep. Bachmann says in her petition, on what side is Pelosi on, the voters or ACORN?
I'm asking all FReepers to take 2 minutes of your time and sign this petition. While I have no illusions that Pelosi will listen to the will of the people, yet her failure to bring this bill to the floor, when there is major public support gives ammunition to conservative politicians to use against RINO's and their best-buddies, the Dems.
Thank You
See 6/3 thread
Alinsky NTIC to pay $550K to settle Fed claim
ACORN is just one of many parasites at the trough. Maybe it is a tactical question: Do you cut them off one at a time in a Bill of Atainder? Or cut them all off?
That's easy...ACORN. Go get the SOB's, Michelle.
Whatever.
All the dimbulbs on this website could've helped prevent that by not bellyaching the last four years over inconsequential nonsense (when compared to the alternative). Instead they condescendingly bickered & complained. As a result, they motivated many to steer clear of voting for John McCain.
I didn't like him, but he was a hell of allot better than B.O.
....now, you all reap what you've sown. ACORN is in and you're out.
Way to go. :/
By the way, Bachmann is Presidential Material. I LOVED the way she took apart that idiot Little Timmy Geitner, over the Constitutionality of the Obama Regime's moves to run private businesses.
If you don’t want to fight, join the democrats.
She was Mark Levin’s guest on the last 1/2 hour of his show Thursday. Talk about a “love-in!” LOL
She coerced him (with NO way out) into addressing a Repub/Conservative breakfast. It was a pretty funny conversation. Just go to marklevinshow.com, go to the Thursday audio, and forward it until you’re at about 91.00 minutes or so. It’s worth the trouble.
LOL
Cut the head of the snake and you the entire thing, if we nip at the tail, it lives.
I say, take the head and the rest will follow.
The link right on top that says begins with ipetition
Yep, and your b*tching, moaning and complaining accomplishes so much. Congratulations
Look up top, the link to the petition is right there, but thanks....
Yea it was great, but what was he going to say after she tells him she’s quoting from his book on the floor of the house!!!
Plus she used repubics...I cracked up
Yep. Was that funny as hell or what?
I laughed so hard I elbowed a perfectly lovely bowl of popcorn on my landlord’s carpet.
LOL!!!!
Fight for what? The executive branch? The legislative? The judicial?
How about all three at the same time?
you had that and d*cked it up. And if you get it back anytime soon, you'll just do it again.
That's what happens when your moral compass is locked in on a political magnetic north.
Republicans deserve where they are at right now. I am not going to lift a finger to help them out of it. Quite the contrary, my instinct at this point is to mock the overwhelming majority of them.
Their incompetence, brought on by selfishness, greed and pride opened the door for this place to be run by three of the biggest nitwits the Nation has EVER seen.
Nothing left to do now but let them run it into the round.
Maybe then Republicans will humble themselves and get back to basics.
Nice little rant for some one who has decided to curl up in the fetal position to cower.
Who helps the democrats now?
Pelosi will definitely squash Mrs.Bachman’s legislation. At least Michelle tries,that's more than I can say for the rest of the useless,entrenched,
R I N O'S. Mrs. Bachman gets an A for effort from me.
Oi.
My acknowledgment of the -Truth- and your Political masterbation are two amazingly different things. The fact that you cant see the forest for the trees at this point, means you’ll keep on spending energy and accomplishing nothing past personal gratification.
Crawl back under your bed coward.
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