In the wake of a pair of important votes in the House and Senate, America is learning who exactly in Washington, D.C. is egregiously placing their own political future ahead of accountability, of excising lawlessness, and doing everything possible to rid our government of corruption.
When it comes to ACORN, thanks to the work done by an independent filmmaker and courageous aspiring journalist, we’ve learned what else the voter fraud specialists are involved in, and what the group is open to.
The first vote came on Tuesday, when the Senate voted 83-7 to suspend funding to ACORN in Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Transportation appropriations bill. Seven senators voted in favor of continuing to fund ACORN, an organization already being investigated in more than a dozen states for voter fraud, and an organization which obviously should be investigated for tax fraud and much, much more. Those seven senators are:• Dick Durbin (D-IL) 100% of Ill. senators love corruption
• Roland Burris (D-IL) VOTE EM OUT
• Robert Casey (D-PA)
• Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
• Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Vermont, Corruption is your middle name too!
• Bernie Sanders (I-VT) VOTE EM OUT
• Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
The second vote came yesterday in the House, which by a vote of 345-75 passed an amendment to the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act that would deny all federal funds to ACORN. The amendment, if I’m correct, was brought forth by House Minority Leader John Boehner. (Actually, it was Daniel Issa.)
Here are the 75 who voted against it:
• Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
• Xavier Becerra (D-CA) 12 house members from California think that corruption is OK
• Bob Filner (D-CA)
• Mike Honda (D-CA)
• Barbara Lee (D-CA)
• Roybal-Allard (D-CA)
• Linda Sanchez (D-CA)
• Brad Sherman (D-CA)
• Pete Stark (D-CA)
• Maxine Waters (D-CA)
• Diane Watson (D-CA)
• Henry Waxman (D-CA)
• Lynn Woolsey (D-CA)
• Diana DeGette (D-CO)
• Jared Polis (D-CO)
• Corrine Brown (D-FL)
• Kathy Anne Castor (D-FL)
• Robert Wexler (D-FL)
• John Lewis (D-GA)
• David Scott (D-GA)
• Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
• Danny Davis (D-IL)
• Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
• Bobby Rush (D-IL)
• Janice Schakowsky (D-IL)
• Andre Carson (D-IN)
• Elijah Cummings (D-MD)
• Donna Edwards (D-MD)
• Michael Capuano (D-MA) 8 house members from Massachusetts think corruption is OK.
• Bill Delahunt (D-MA)
• Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
• Ed Markey (D-MA)
• Jim McGovern (D-MA)
• Richard Neal (D-MA)
• John Olver (D-MA)
• Niki Tsongas (D-MA)
• Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI)
• Ralph Ellison (D-MN)
• Betty McCollum (D-MN)
• Bennie Thompson (D-MS)
• Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)
• Rush Holt (D-NJ)
• Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)
• Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ)
• Donald Payne (D-NJ)
• Albio Sires (D-NJ)
• Joseph Crowley (D-NY) 10 in NY love it too! VOTE EM OUT
• Eliot Engel (D-NY)
• Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
• Gregory Meeks (D-NY)
• Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)
• Charlie Rangel (D-NY)
• Jose Serrano (D-NY)
• Louise Slaughter (D-NY)
• Edolphus Towns (D-NY)
• Nydia Velazquez (D-NY)
• G.K. Butterfield, Jr. (D-NC)
• David Price (D-NC)
• Marcia Fudge (D-OH)
• Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
• Bob Brady (D-PA)
• Mike Doyle (D-PA)
• Chaka Fattah (D-PA)
• Jim Clyburn (D-SC)
• Al Green (D-TX)
• Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX)
• E.B. Johnson (D-TX)
• Jim Moran (D-VA)
• Bobby Scott (D-VA)
• Rick Larsen (D-WA)
• Jim McDermott (D-WA)
• Alan Mollohan (D-WV)
• Nick Rahall (D-WV)
• Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
• Gwen Moore (D-WI)
A few things to point out: First, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not vote by tradition; Second, take a gander at the first letter after these 75 names, and consider which party tolerates–if not endorses–corruption and lawlessness in the name of social justice;
VOTE EM OUT..!!
Third, keep in mind that the ACORN-related measure was an amendment on a much bigger bill, so many of these people could be otherwise committed to a vote on the Student Loan legislation.
Of course, that shouldn’t be too much consolation. Unfortunately, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 also essentially nationalized the student loan industry — but that’s a matter for another time and place.