New Spending Bill Blocks ACORN Funding Four Times, Even Though ACORN No Longer Exists

"ACORN, however, no longer exists." Wouldn't that be a necessity in order to defund it. You would think after the first time in 2009-10 it would be a non issue. And how the hell is it a standard provision that goes into most appropriations bills? Is that like voting 44 times to repeal the ACA, ya know standard?

I think what the Repugs are afraid of is that ACORN will return and demand a full apology. Nothing scares them more than politically active inner city people,,,

The massive new appropriations bill unveiled Monday night includes four provisions that block funding to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, an anti-poverty activist group better known as ACORN.

The bicameral, bipartisan appropriations bill is the product of last year's budget deal between Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), filling in the details of the blueprint they agreed upon.

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The group dissolved in 2010, penniless, after Congress cut off its funding in 2009 based on a selectively edited video released by conservative provocateur James O'Keefe. O'Keefe manipulated the footage to give the impression that ACORN workers were encouraging tax avoidance related to prostitution and child smuggling, but multiple subsequent investigations cleared the group of any wrongdoing.



New Spending Bill Blocks ACORN Funding Four Times, Even Though ACORN No Longer Exists