UPDATE: Vitter goes after ACORN’s fire grants
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
09/23/09 9:45 AM EDT
Re: “Even federal programs that don’t work are tough to kill,” Sept. 23
Sen. David Vitter is urging Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to rescind a $997,402 fire grant her department awarded to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Both houses of Congress voted to cut off funding to ACORN after several of its employees were caught on tape counseling a young couple in ways to evade the law.
“When so many fire departments throughout the nation are struggling for funding for important and lifesaving projects, how is it that a non-fire department with no clear expertise in fire safety and prevention is given such a large award for fire safety?” Vitter asked in a letter he sent Napolitano on Tuesday.
"ACORN's continued contempt for state and federal laws has placed their entire organization under a cloud of serious scrutiny, and this grant should be rescinded and awarded to a more deserving group of first responders," Vitter added.
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