Posted on 09/16/2009 4:46:18 PM PDT by AuntB
As ACORN grapples with a scandal that in recent days has led the Census Bureau to sever ties and the Senate to block housing funding , other groups with similar stated goals are left to wonder how the fallout might affect them.
But the group is on its heels after conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos ....
The Senate voted 83-7 Monday to block Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN.
....Housing and Urban Development Department ... provides funding to 25 groups that, like ACORN, have a national profile and similar goals. Among these groups are ******* Catholic Charities, National Council of La Raza and the National Council on Aging.******
Analysts on poverty and welfare said they believe the scandal will have little impact on these groups....
If Congress blocked funding to ACORN, "it's going to go someplace else," he said. "But that someplace else won't be that much different from ACORN."
Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., said that ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer funds since 1994 and that the group was eligible for a wider set of funding in the pending legislation, which funds housing and transportation programs.
ACORN received $1.6 million of federal funding for its housing services in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
Rector said the government spends more than $700 billion a year assisting low-income people, including cash, housing, food and medical care. "And we have no idea where that money goes," he said. Of that amount, $70 billion goes to what he called "amorphous" social service programs.
"To the extent of what you're seeing, when people see the ACORN operations and the recognition of the closeness of ties between Obama and ACORN, it's a symbol of the overall incompetence of the welfare state."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
This is the best explanation I've seen!
from the article:
But Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation and an expert on welfare and poverty said these community organizing networks "basically get paid to make noise" and "serve as a clearinghouse for moving government money around."
Can you imagine the reaction if there was a white charity named “the race?”
all of thew other groups with ACORN and La Raza should be closed down and those brothers need to be looked at by the feds with out bozo and his clan trying to stop them
I’d get a real tingle up my leg if that brave couple had targeted La Ratsa, too!
Rotten Apples? They are a bunch of criminals
Where else are they throwing my money away?
Unlike ACORN, La Raza only talks to those who are of “the race”.
I don’t think that the intrepid duo would be allowed in any of their offices.
Criminals who are rotten.
Rector said the government spends more than $700 billion a year assisting low-income people, including cash, housing, food and medical care.
“And we have no idea where that money goes,”
That is just beyond belief.
Imagine if Glenn Spencer or CCIR or FAIR or SaveOurState or NumbersUSA - all patriotic groups and people trying to uphold our laws and sovereignty - had gotten even a fraction of that kind of money.
The seditionists would have been screaming so loud it would have woken up Harry Byrd.
Good, La Raza is filled with a bunch of communist haters. They do not represent any Hispanic, except for liberal hispanics that hate everything about their culture.
Let’s hope that the enterprising pair of film makers infiltrated La Raza, another racist group feasting on taxpayer’s hard-earned money.
The question that should be asked is “What has the community gained from money given to ACORN?”
Amazing
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La Raza is also finacially supported by many corporations and tax-exempt foundations (listed on the Discover the Networks.org). Among them:
American Express Foundation, AT&T Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Verizon Foundation.
NOTE WELL Between 2001 and 2003, the Ford Foundation gave La Raza about $9.83 million, with one grant alone totaling $8.05 million and has also assisted invaders to setup legal groups that are suing Americans.
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ACTION PROJECT
The SEC and the IRS should be notified about tax-exempt foundations in collusion with La Raza to use tax-exempt money to facilitate the violation of state and federal laws (a felony).
CONTACT THE SEC EMAIL enforcement@SEC.gov
PHONE THE IRS TOLL FREE 1-800-829-0433 You may remain anonymous if you wish.
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REFERENCE
National Council of La Raza Headquarters
Raul Yzaguirre Building
1126 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel. (202) 785-1670
Fax (202) 776-1792
La Raza also has offces in Atlanta, Chicago, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Long Beach, New York, Phoenix, San Antonio, Puerto Rico
Atlanta Program Office Tel. (404) 658-1711 Fax (404) 420-3233
Chicago Program Office Tel. (3121) 269-9250 Fax (3121) 269-9260
Long Beach-Center for Latino and Community Health Tel. (562) 985-5242 Fax (562) 985-5048
Los Angeles Program Office Tel. (213) 489-3428 Fax (213) 489-1167
New York Office Tel. (212) 260-7070 Fax (212) 260-7039
Phoenix Program Office Tel. (602) 417-1400 Fax (602) 252-0315
Puerto Rico Program Office Tel. (787) 641-0546 Fax (787) 641-0545 nclr-pr@nclr.org
Sacramento Policy Office Tel. (916) 448-9852 Fax (916) 448-9823
San Antonio Program Office Tel. (210) 212-4454 Fax (210) 212-4459
How about this GOP Reps and Senators:
NO TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR ANY NON PROFIT GROUPS!!!
Let them stand or fall on their own merits. This would go a long way toward rebuilding trust in government and balancing the budget, too!
Well, for whatever and how stupid this sounds. La Raza...is not racist...or is it?
Will do!
"And we have no idea where that money goes," he said. Of that amount, $70 billion goes to what he called "amorphous" social service programs."
Oh, yoooo-hoooo, obama -- I think I know where you can "find" the funding for the 10 million folks who can't get insurance. Surely if you're providing them with insurance, they'll no longer need the services of ACORN, right?
From his lips to God’s ears.
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REMEDY Taxpayers demand an injunction requiring states immediately cease accepting (a) IRS returns submitted by ACORN, and, (b) that all current voter rolls be cross-referenced against ACORN'S lists of 'registrations' already submitted to nullify any and all voter frauds committed.
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS We demand federal funding for indicted organization ACORN be stopped. We are a nation of laws. It is illegal to force Taxpayers to aid and abet, to subsidize and facilitate, ACORN'S numerous crimes, including:
ID theft, voter fraud, government fraud, mortgage fraud, and bank fraud.
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REFERENCE 'Go after ACORN,' judge says
Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | Walter F. Roche Jr.
FR Posted by Salena Zito
A district judge who held another ACORN worker for trial Monday on election law violations urged prosecutors to go after the real culprit, the organization that employed him. "Somebody has to go after ACORN," Senior District Judge Richard H. Zoller said about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
"It's happening all over the country. All you have to do is turn on the television," he said, referring to voter registration fraud charges brought recently against ACORN and its workers in Nevada.
"We will," Allegheny County Detective Robert F. Keenan promised as he wrapped up his testimony. A spokesman for DA Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said following the hearing that the county's investigation into members of ACORN and their activities during the 2008 campaign "remains open and active." (Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Scammers...scamming our tax dollars...that’s all Acorn, LaRaza, all of them are...just flippin’ amazing!$70 BILLION a year!
What a racket....and these community organizing organized crimes are ALL Obama knows of ‘government’.
What a mess!
Imagine if we had:
The Congressional White Caucus
The National Association for the Advancement of White People
Ivory Magazine
White Entertainment Television
White Graduate Students Association
White Studies deparments
National Association of White Journalists
National Society of White Engineers
all-white Fraternities
The European American College Fund
Can you imagine the outrage?
You're joking, right? Unless they have changed in the last few weeks, LaRaza is chock full of marxists and communist sympathizers, almost as much as MeChA. LaRaza boasts some of the most bigoted and intolerant and hateful people on this continent.
“I’d get a real tingle up my leg if that brave couple had targeted La Ratsa, too!”
Exactly what I was thinking!!! Can YOU imagine some of the advice illegal aliens get from them! LaRaza gets enough government $$$ to give aliens healthcare! And you can bet they get plenty from the Mexican drug lords as well.
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Unlike ACORN, La Raza only talks to those who are of “the race”.
I don’t think that the intrepid duo would be allowed in any of their offices.”
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I know several great Americans of Mexican descent who would just love to!
“Hi. I weeesh to set up a meth lab and crack house. Can the Senora help me?”
“The question that should be asked is “What has the community gained from money given to ACORN?””
Hookers and pimps??
I meant, “communists and haters”. Sorry about that.
When we contact our reps about ACORN, we need to insist ALL of these ‘non profits’ get cut off. ALL of ‘EM! LIke the mentioned ‘Catholic charities’...no wonder the church keeps promoting amnesty...they profit from it...not just in the collection plate, but tax $$$$. That’s BS.
Thanks for the clarification.
Spot on. I have run into a member or two in my life and they are politically fascist or outright communist. On top that that, the organisation is akin to the KKK or the Black Panthers.
“Imagine if we had:
The Congressional White Caucus
The National Association for the Advancement of White People
Ivory Magazine
White Entertainment Television
White Graduate Students Association
White Studies deparments
National Association of White Journalists
National Society of White Engineers
all-white Fraternities
The European American College Fund
Can you imagine the outrage?”
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The media would have mass siezures! Congress would pass a law or pervert existing law to lock everyone up!
I have concerns for Hannah Giles and O'Keefe's safety. I would tend to believe that they have that covered.
No Image....
Shows on my screen. ?
Mine shows account inactive for 90 days
Photobucket
Strange. What browser are you using?
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b230/orkanbishop/RoteSprite.jpg
IE7 on Vista and I got the same message on your raw URL.
There’s a lot of corruption in liberal non-profits.
Same here. Must be some switch in IE7. I have no idea right now.
FR favorite Victor Davis Hanson suggested that “der Nationalrat das Volk” wouldn’t get quite the warm reception in liberal circles that La Raza does.
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bump!
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