URGENT: We need YOU to help put an End to ACORN
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First of all Thank You.  Here is the first step in ending ACORN
in Illinois by signing the Say NO to ACORN Petition
Governor Pat Quinn’s inbox is being flooded by thousands of taxpayers
like you who have urged him to launch an investigation into ACORN and
its affiliates like SEIU.  But before Pat Quinn will listen, he needs to
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Governor Pat Quinn is very invested in ACORN …

Last Friday, CBS-2 News Political Editor Mike Flannery reported that “there no longer is an ACORN Illinois.” A story from the Los Angeles Times corroborates the closing of an ACORN branch in Chicago.But, as Kristina Rasmussen recently reported, “ACORN Housing” received a $100,000 grant from the Illinois Housing Development Authority according to a 2008 annual progress report submitted in April 2009. How can ACORN get a grant if they’re not present in Illinois? So I set out to answer a simple question: Does ACORN currently have operating offices in Illinois? …

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union, issued the following statement today regarding recent attempts of right wing extremists to silence working families by attacking progressive individuals and community organizations:
“This is a moment of profound change for this country — from kitchen tables to town halls to the floor of the Senate, this nation is engaged in a vigorous and heated debate about how we rebuild our economy, solve our national healthcare crisis and restore the American Dream.
“As has always happened when progressive …

Dear Senator Durbin,
I didn’t expect your Democratic Senate colleague, Roland Burris, to understand why voting against the federal defunding of ACORN was contemptible. That’s because he is a demonstrable twit. But you, sir, from your exalted position as your party’s second highest official in the Senate, should have been able to locate and read the evidence coming from within the halls of Congress. Instead, you ignored the hard facts and voted with a few other blind partisans to keep our taxpayers’ millions flowing into that sinkhole called the
Association of Community …

Via Marathon Pundit
From Schakowsky’s congressional web site. Bold print emphasis is mine.
Schakowsky was joined at the news conference by other members of the Housing Subcommittee and members of Congress, including Representatives Bruce Vento (D-MN), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Danny Davis (D-IL), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Michael Capuano (D-MA) and Gregory Meeks (D-NY). Officials from the National Low-income Housing Coalition, Center for Budget Policy and Priorities, ACORN, U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Association of Child Advocacy also attended the event. August 3, 1999.
U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Maxine Waters …

Illinois State Senator Kirk Dillard, Republican gubernatorial candidate, today called on Governor Quinn to issue an immediate Executive Order banning state funds to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Recent news accounts show ACORN employees illegally misusing state tax dollars:
“Governor Quinn should issue an immediate Executive Order to ban state funds to ACORN until the Illinois Attorney General has conducted a full investigation on all ACORN practices.
“We should not be spending tax dollars to fund an organization like ACORN which continues to violate the public’s trust at …

(Vote Yes to Suspend Funding, Vote No to Continue Funding ACORN)
75 Dem no votes. More split in the House than the Senate, though some of the Dem Illinois delegation disgraces itself again. Danny Davis, Jesse Jackson Jr. (who is under an ethics and criminal investigation), Jan Schakowsky, following the lead of our child sex-slaver Senators.
Foster, Lipinski, Quigley, Bean, Halvorson see the writing on the wall–you’re still endangered in 2010–where were you on ACORN before?
P.S. Oh, and the Tribune finally editorializes on ACORN. Quite the light touch. This is all so …

More at WSJ

Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced an amendment to the HUD and Transportation appropriation bill to strip ACORN of all federal funding.  A week ago, Johanns wouldn’t have gotten the amendment to the floor.  Today, however, after three straight days of BigGovernment.com’s video exposés of ACORN offices in Washington DC, New York City, and Baltimore offering assistance to pimping, tax evasion, and trafficking in underage Salvadorean girls, Johanns not only got his vote — but he got an impressive bipartisan showing.  The Senate passed the Johanns amendment 83-7.
The seven Senators supporting …

A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign because it would have been a “a game changer.”
Heather Heidelbaugh, who represented the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee in the lawsuit against the group, recounted for the ommittee what she had been told by a former ACORN worker who had worked in the …