Thread: Congress / Citigroup Gearing Up To Start Funding ACORN Again

Enabling ACORN's Comeback

Are Congress and Citigroup Gearing Up To Start Funding ACORN Again?

By Matthew Vadum
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Are Congress and Citigroup gearing up to start funding ACORN again?
It sure looks like it,

Congress—and possibly Citigroup—may be gearing up to start funding the organized crime syndicate ACORN again. The current federal funding ban expires Dec. 18.

On Tuesday evening the House Appropriations Committee rejected on a party line vote of 9 to 5 an amendment offered by Rep. Tom Latham (R-Iowa) that would have blocked federal funding of the radical advocacy group.

The amendment was needed because the Obama administration thumbed its nose at a provision in spending legislation that banned ACORN funding until the end of next week.

In a ruling revealed late last month by the Justice Department the Obama administration invented a loophole allowing the government to continue funding the president’s friends at ACORN. Through the magic of legal interpretation, the language forbidding funding the group was transformed by Acting Assistant Attorney General David J. Barron into a requirement not “to refuse payment on binding contractual obligations that predateâ€

Gee, I would'a never figured this to happen. But they owe ACORN. All the campaignin' they did for the dems, and now it's payback time.