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House votes to cut off funding, but 75 stand by ACORN

By: David Freddoso
Online Opinion Editor
09/17/09 2:30 PM EDT

The House of Representatives just voted overwhelmingly to de-fund ACORN, 345-75. The vote came on a Republican motion to recommit the educational loan bill. As a result, the anti-ACORN provision made it into the House-passed bill.

Below are the names of all 75 congressmen who voted to preserve ACORN's stream of funding.

The biggest surprises on the list: Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., and the two Democrats from West Virginia, Alan Mollohan and Nick Rahall.

Notable for not voting: Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a staunch defender of ACORN.

ACORN's defenders:

Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc.
Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.
Robert Brady D-Pa.
Corrine Brown, D-Fla.
G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C.
Mike Capuano, D-Mass.
Andre Carson, D-Ind.
Kathy Castor, D-Fla.
Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo.
James Clyburn, D-S.C.
Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y.
Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
Danny Davis, D-Ill.
Diane DeGette, D-Colo.
Bill Delahunt, D-Mass.
Mike Doyle, D-Pa.
Donna Edwards, D-Md.
Keith Ellison, D-Minn.
Eliot Engel, D-N.Y.
Chaka Fattah, D-Pa.
Bob Filner, D-Calif.
Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio
Al Green, D-Tex.
Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz.
Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y.
Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii
Rush Holt, D-N.J.
Mike Honda, D-Calif.
Jesse Jackson, Jr. D-Ill.
Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Tex.
Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Tex.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich.
Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio
Rick Larsen, D-Wash.
Barbara Lee, D-Calif.
John Lewis, D-Ga.
Stephen Lynch, D-Mass.
Markey, D-Mass.
Betty McCollum, D-Minn.
McDermott, D-Wash.
McGovern, D-Mass.
Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.
Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va.
Gwen Moore, D-Wisc.
Jim Moran, D-Va.
Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.
Richard Neal, D-Mass.
John Olver, D-Mass.
Frank Pallone, D-N.J.
Bill Pascrell, D-N.J.
Donald Payne, D-N.J.
Jared Polis, D-Colo.
David Price, D-N.C.
Nick Rahall, D-W.Va.
Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y.
Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif.
Bobby Rush, D-Ill.
Linda Sánchez, D-Calif.
Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.
David Scott D-Ga.
Bobby Scott, D-Va.
Jose Serrano, D-N.Y.
Brad Sherman, D-Calif.
Albio Sires, D-N.J.
Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y.
Pete Stark, D-Calif.
Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.
Niki Tsongas, D-Mass.
Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y.
Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
Diane Watson, D-Calif.
Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
Robert Wexler, D-Fla.
Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif.




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robin u blind

Sep 17, 2009

The Usual Suspects

 

Weatherman

Sep 17, 2009

All moonbat libs vote for child sex slavery - unbelievable.

 

Cindy Frich

Sep 17, 2009

The nuts fall close to the tree! ACORN at WVU recruiting..thanks to Mollohan & Rahall funding voter fraud and criminal activity!

 

CC

Sep 17, 2009

So where's Pelosi or was she unaware of this vote as well?

 

JB

Sep 17, 2009

So we have 75 Congresscritters who support child prostitution, among other things.

Nice.

 

JB

Sep 17, 2009

75 Congresscritters support child prostitution.

 

Weatherman

Sep 17, 2009

In a better day those 75 would be wearing tar and feather suits.

 

Greg

Sep 17, 2009

Well, not surprisingly, the four Reps from my home state of Illinois that voted to fund ACORN are from Chicago. Go figure.

 

drjohn

Sep 17, 2009

75 Democrats in favor of child prostitution in a hyperpartisan organization.

This one's gonna hurt.

 

Sep 17, 2009

By custom, the Speaker usually does not vote.

 

GarandFan

Sep 17, 2009

So Barney voted "Present"! Other than that, the "usual suspects". Every one should have "I support child prostitution and sexual slavery" on the door to their office!

 

ClassicFilm

Sep 17, 2009

Each and every one of the 75 who still want to give child prostitution supporter ACORN taxpayer money have the letter "D" after their names... "D" must stand for despicable, deplorable, and dangerous.

 

Pathetic

Sep 17, 2009

I bet the majority of these idiots are "African American".

 

DTruth

Sep 17, 2009

ACORN will simply continue with their name change (soon to be Community Organizers International) and the federal funding will continue uninterrupted.

This is an ongoing national criminal enterprise, and it will enjoy continued protection from Obama/Holder and their MSM allies.

 

erin maloney

Sep 17, 2009

It is a shame that these reps will vote for whatever they think all Democrats including Obama want & Acorn will get away with it because they claim to help the poor & misrepresented

 

quizzer 10

Sep 17, 2009

I give those that voted for as willing adherents to socialism and should have to bear the stigma when they run for re-election.

 

StopSocialism

Sep 17, 2009

Current score:

Glenn Beck = 2
Loony-left d-crat socialists = 0

 

John Rice

Sep 17, 2009

This group should never be returned to Congress.

 

SayNoToRacisim

Sep 17, 2009

Almost every member of the Congressional Black Caucus voted to fund child prostitution!

 

Immolate

Sep 17, 2009

A finer rogue's gallery you will never see.

 

TheScribbler

Sep 17, 2009

Keep this list please, we'll need to know who to kick to the curb next election cycle.

 

DirtCrashr

Sep 17, 2009

The California Contingent is particularly obvious. Waxman, Woolsey, Waters, Stark - the usual, insufferable jerks.

 

Phila voter

Sep 17, 2009

Chakka Fattah supports those who would bring child illegal alien sex slaves into our Philadelphia neighborhoods?

 

Kevin Hayes

Sep 17, 2009

I'm disappointed that my congresswoman, Anna Eshoo, is not in the 75. This anti-ACORN is a GOP/ Fox News/ Rush Limbaugh / Glenn McCarthy ginned-up non-issue.

 

Peter

Sep 17, 2009

I'm sure the courageous Republicans in Congress will be cutting of funding for Blackwater, KBR, Citibank, lawbreaking telecoms and many other corrupt corporations who own them any moment now.

 

JoeCollins

Sep 17, 2009

what do ya know, all democrats.

 

chicagomatt

Sep 17, 2009

anyone trying to defend Acorn is a frustrated liberal. hey Kevin Hayes, did you see the videos? do you condone the FACT that Acorn officials in FIVE different offices were gladly helping people set up houses of prostitution...with underage girls...brought into the country illegally? yeah. blame it on Fox News or El Rushbo, etc.. people like you are as much of a problem for this country as these clowns without souls working for Acorn.

 

fewfir

Sep 17, 2009

amazing that jesse jr was able find time to cast a vote supporting the funding of criminal activity while at the same time working up a defence for his own criminal funding activity...now there's an active "self-servant"!

 

B C R

Sep 17, 2009

register to vote TODAY. Congressional elections are not that far away.

 

Sep 17, 2009

Why cut off those companies, Peter? President Obama is already making sure they're well taken care of.

 

fewfir

Sep 17, 2009

this list...double spaced...fills about 7.5 sheets of Charmin...very soft and self-absorbent

 

Chelsea

Sep 17, 2009

The comments here are what's despicable, deplorable, and dangerous. So a couple of a corrupt people captured on a tape that's been edited to make them look even worse are reason enough to cut off all federal funding to a whole organization? With no other inquiry or investigation besides said heavily edited tapes?

If those are our high and noble standards, well, the House's next vote might as well be to disband itself. I'd imagine there's a lot more corruption there than there was in ACORN!

 

Truth

Sep 17, 2009

This garbage is being pushed on Fixed News by clowns like Hannity. Lets explore Sean Hannity's associations with Neo Nazi, Hal Turner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ixZJBEYvxg

 

Thanks

Sep 17, 2009

I want to thank all those that commented on how this was garbage from FOX, Glenn Beck, etc. That was some of the funniest stuff I have read in ages! Who would have thought that denial could be so humorus!

 

Harrisonburg Bob

Sep 17, 2009

More criminal exploits of the Democratic Party. What do people expect of serial liars? Come on people, get real!!

 

GBG

Sep 17, 2009

The president's nuts are rancid.

 

Harrisonburg Bob

Sep 17, 2009

Oh, PS... I would like to see photo mug shots of the perverts who voted to continue funding the racist, Chicago crimianl organization ACORN. That would show you the TRUTH. I rest my case.

 

Harrisonburg Bob

Sep 17, 2009

That was criminal, not crimianl - sorry!

 

John Frary

Sep 17, 2009

This leaves a solid majority of Democrats in both houses who voted to defund.

Chelsea and Truth, poor dears, avoid comment on this fact. They are suffering and it is unkind to mock them

 

Yehudit

Sep 17, 2009

Someone needs to get a screenshot of this before it disappears: ACORN endorsement on my.barackobama.com , also quotes showing how chummy the Prez has been with the group. I mean we know that but here it's in their own words.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGC7zm

 

rplat

Sep 17, 2009

The names I recognized didn't surprise me . . . each one leans so far to the left that the knuckles of their left hands drag the ground.

 

Mach10

Sep 17, 2009

Whomever runs against these 75 hacks has a clear shot to be elected if in neighborhoods other than black. If things are the way they are in November 2010 as they are today, I'd bet on the republicans in spite of their gross idiocy, taking back both houses. The anointed one knows this. That's why he wants these bills pushed through express speed> Doesn't matter to dems if it takes 50 years they will get their legislation through. Republicans have to be tougher and destroy the democrat party with anti American hearings and inquiries to check links to the communist party.

 

mach10

Sep 17, 2009

The saddest part of the black caucus voting to support ACORN was to support skin color not the criminality. I get the message that blacks are not ready morally to lead a 2 car funeral forget leading America. That would mean 2 sets of rules for laws and that my dear people is racism in the highest possible form.

 

Dr. T.

Sep 17, 2009

Yeah, it's Fox News' fault. These poor saps were secretly recorded. Let's charge the two people who visited these fine offices with a crime. Am I missing something here? Get real people. We have a criminal organization here. Stop all funding, and file criminal charges at once. Full scale investigation is in order. And I'm sorry Kevin Hayes, but you are the problem! Wake up!

 

kl

Sep 17, 2009

This whole disaster is not a commentary on FOX News but on President Obama, who is strangly silent on this issue. Watch the youtube vid of him telling them they would have a seat at his table shaping policy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMQ20wNhB_M

 

AntiCitizenOne

Sep 17, 2009

Devil’s Advocate: Innocent until proven guilty.

If innocent…if possible…then so be it.

If guilty…cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

Either way, I win, and all of you lose.

 

JimmaCotta

Sep 17, 2009

Jimma, the peanut farmer, thinks you'all are racists because you don't lay down for Barack, the acorn farmer.

 

David D

Sep 17, 2009

If none of the Republicans had voted, the bill would have passed by a margin of

172-75

on Democrat votes alone.

Look at it this way: almost 70% of Democrats oppose funding ACORN, and every single Republican realized that the majority of Democrats are right.

 

kl

Sep 18, 2009

Thirty percent of the democrats in congress decided to stand with Obama and give America the finger. Are they just telling us to just wear our underwear backwards for the next three years or what?

 

davecatbone

Sep 18, 2009

why do we keep re electing Dennis Kucinich?

 

RLJ

Sep 18, 2009

We need a deeper investigation into who these supporters are and what their previous connections have been with ACORN, including the possibilities of voter registration fraud and contributions in their last election campaign. I suspect we will find that ACORN has been using grants paid by taxpayers to contribute to these campaigns. As Bush bashers used to say this issue is to important to wait for evidence to begin an investigation.

 

DarrenN

Sep 18, 2009

I am calling, leaving messages, writing my republican senator to have him open a full investigation on the 75 who opposed de-funding ACORN. There is speculation the 75 Democrats may be involved in illegal political contributions through ACORN. Please do the same, ask for those 75 to be investigated.

 

tempest in a teapot

Sep 18, 2009

Investigation of ACORN needs to also include all its tentacles...follow ALL the money...everything needs to be outed!!...people and organizations!!

 

jan stewart

Sep 18, 2009

Notable, Frank and Fudge in the same page. Even he saw the impact of voting for this but it's way too late for him

 

Jack Carter

Sep 18, 2009

First there was the fake "voter fraud" scandal, now there's the fake "child prostitution" scandal. This jihad is nothing but mudslinging politics and hysteria by people who evidently can't or won't think for themselves. Hooray to the senators and representatives who had the guts to stand up to the mob!

 

Dave in Memphis

Sep 18, 2009

Don't miss CSPAN Washington Live this am (onlive archive) with Bertha Lewis criticizing "Mister O’Keefe" for having such a slanted view "of an organization that is predominantly African-American" that when he wants to approach it he feels that he should "dress up like a pimp." She is sure "that his mother is not proud of him." AND…she hopes that "he is paid well by the right wing" because "we all need to make a living somehow." I'm always glad when leaders take responsibility and quick action to correct mistakes.

 

not Dave in Memphis, really

Sep 18, 2009

I fully agree with Bertha Lewis, Mr. O'Keefe has ruined the credibility of legitimate non-African American performance artists that might approach ACORN for help. Where are they to go now?

How will persons with housing or tax needs that like to wear mink in the summer ever expect to receive help at ACORN offices now that this trust destroying expose has been produced?

not Dave in Memphis, really

 

JamesJ

Sep 18, 2009

Apparently "Blackwater" is the liberal talking point of the day. pathetic

 

Don Don in Mesquite

Sep 18, 2009

seventy five (75) idiots......and oh yes, they are all Democrats who seem to live in a shaded/black world. surprise, surprise..................

 

Joe D. in New Jersey

Sep 18, 2009

Chelsea, in the words of the Congressman who is obviously the defender of all you hold dear, Barney Frank, "What planet do you spend most of your time on".

 

rocket916

Sep 18, 2009

Wake up Minnesota. Kieth Ellison's name is no surpise. Chek our CAIR. The people who are helping to fund him. No surprise the same thought of ACORN. Bring down Aerica

 

Yankee

Sep 18, 2009

Don't blame the Fox network for ACORN's
stupidity-and those 75 liberals(mostly black I presume will stick up for anything that is for the Afro-Americans

 

JonR

Sep 18, 2009

If voters reelect any one of these idiots then they deserve them!!!

 

OldNavy

Sep 18, 2009

As has been repeatedly said, and needs to continue to be repeated until it echoes in every American's ears, Democrats, and Democrats alone voted to fund this criminal and socialist organization. Take note in 2010.

 

Oblakhan

Sep 18, 2009

That's right Jack "fake voter fraud". The thing is they only have ACORN members under indictment in 11 states. There should be a lot more. Get a clue.

 

codycodes

Sep 18, 2009

Democrats who voted no to stop funding Acorn:

Your job description will change in 2010.

 

the end

Sep 19, 2009

assuming an active, enquiring media, this is the end of obamadom

 

Just slumming here...

Sep 19, 2009

I think the next time a couple of employees at the businesses YOU all work for act stupidly on company matters, your workplace should be shut down. Are you consistent with your "beliefs" or just hysterical wingnuts?

 

carolyn

Sep 19, 2009

i am surprised that anyone still votes for dems!!

 

Rimshot

Sep 20, 2009

"I think the next time a couple of employees at the businesses YOU all work for act stupidly on company matters, your workplace should be shut down."

A swing and a miss. If someone walked into five different branches of the company I worked for, and the randomly selected employees offered the same advice on how to successfully commit a felony - one involving underage prostitution and CHILD SLAVERY - then yes, they should be shut down. If you don't think they should...

You know, seriously, I just don't get it. Are you people that blindered, that you can just pretend that this grotesquely criminal organization is just an innocent group being bullied by mean old right wingers? That's... that's just sad, really.

And smugly making fun of the people horrified by this group? Beyond sad, and bordering on sick. Seriously, dude, you should probably get some help, there.

 

fifo_fo_fum

Sep 20, 2009

When you think of Congressman Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, think of child prostitution. Jim Mcgovern = taxpayer subsidized child prostitution.

"I wanted to start an illicit bussiness that was so grotesque that Bank Of America said it was too sick and evil for EVEN them. So I called Congressman Jim McGovern and he put me in touch with ACORN. Thank You Jim McGovern and ACORN, you guys are some real hard core, sick puppies."

 

steve

Sep 21, 2009

Figures.. All the above are Liberal pigs.

 

Skyler

Sep 21, 2009

Agreed. This list of Congresspeople proves there are still rotten to the core politicians who only care about the bottom dollar. I hope most of them are voted out of office.

 

the joke's on you

Sep 22, 2009

Wonderful! At least 75 who weren't stupid enough to fall for this orchestrated fraud by the GOP. There's hope for our Congress yet.

As for those that are trying to paint ACORN as child sex traffickers...remember the last time you tried to smear someone with your perverted accusations? Just a friendly reminder how that turned out...unlike a certain QUITTER, David Letterman still has his job. And just like Letterman, ACORN isn't going anywhere.

 

hook

Sep 22, 2009

Gone Gone Gone in 2010
what you say America

GBA

 

Phillip

Sep 23, 2009

Attn: the jokes on you -

YOU'RE AN IDIOT

 

Chappy

Sep 25, 2009

It is so sad to see so many ignorant people who believe everything some TV entertainer, after all that is what most NEWS media people are these days, say. They are fed innuendos and lies from some corporate P.A. person and just feed it on down the line. Very Sad. Thank God for a few brave and honest men and women.

 

Oct 12, 2009

Sadly our congressman in California Mike Honda chose to support organizations such as Acorn after it was shown supporting prostitution and under age girls for prostitution. Sadly it has been sown time and time again that Mike Honda does not listen to his constituents but only those that can contribute large amounts of money. Sadly Mike Honda seems to be a pervert.

 

chicagopolitics

Oct 28, 2009

How corrupt must ACORN become before the US cuts off funding altogether???

Various proven votor fraud cases over the years (including 4 figure number of BAD votor registrations in my area) and now---acorn Professional Services to Pimps - Prostitution DESTROYS neighborhoods (as well as the slaves and clients in it)!!!

ACORN is part of the PROBLEM now!

What incredible corruption is allowed to stand!!!

 

deniro11

Dec 3, 2009

figures that every black member voted for Acorn funding they are not true americans these blacks just figure heads and yes i am a Racist big deal

 

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