Stop ACORN from Accessing Taxpayer Dollars

Since 1994, 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

To sign the petition, click here.

Stop ACORN

Many people are concerned about ACORN's role in election fraud, the banking collapse and campaigns against businesses' rights and freedoms. ACORN activities have delivered approximately $15 billion in direct monetary benefits to their membership and constituency over the past 10 years. With the bailout Obama is proposing, we know that he will pay back his ACORN activists that helped him get elected. The real question is: How Much? How many of the tax dollars that hard-working people have paid into the federal government will go to paying off ACORN? We know it won't come in direct payment, but in "backdoor deals". Other organizations will receive this money, and they, in turn, will funnel it to ACORN. Much like the Obama campaign giving over $800,000 to an association with, conveniently, close ties to ACORN.

We need have an organization the represents the workingman. An organization that watches out for the taxpayer and watches how government is spending workers' money. This organization could work to protect the rights of businesses, ensuring a strong economy and good jobs. It would need to educate workers on important issues about the spending of their tax dollars. This organization would also organize voter registration and voting drives to ensure the workingman has a voice in the process of electing the officials in charge of spending their money. This organization could be known as:

Mission Statement

Community Awareness Seeking to Help Every Workingman (CASHEW) aims to organize a majority consituency of working people across the United States. The members of CASHEW take on issues of relevance to their communities, whether those issues are quality education, lower taxes or more efficient public services and use of tax dollars. CASHEW believes that working people are the best advocates for their communities, and so CASHEW's working members act as leaders, spokespeople, and decision-makers within the organization.

Milwaukee ACORN voting scandal touches Barack Obama

$800,000.

$800,000 is the amount of money that Barack Obama's campaign has given to ACORN. Now that 35 names of ACORN employees have been turned over the DA in Milwaukee, it comes to light the the Obama campaign is personally financing these workers.

Suddenly the Obama campaign is "amending" their campaign finance records to show that they actually handed the money over to a subsidary of ACORN.

More from Michelle Malkin here and here.

PS. Just in case you did not know, you tax dollars also support ACORN