Found this petition on Free Republic site. Rep. Bachmann has a petition against funding ACORN with our tax dollars.



Help Michelle Bachmann prevent ACORN from accessing any federal tax dollars


http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/TaxD ... index.html ^ | 06/05/2009 | Brytani

Posted on Friday, June 05, 2009 7:21:24 AM by Brytani

The petition

Since 1997, 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 172 – 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

Speaker Pelosi, I think that Congress has a duty to the taxpayers to keep our hard-earned money out of the hands of those who play fast and loose with the law. I urge you to bring Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act to the floor and to support its passage. I want to know if you are on the taxpayer’s side … or ACORN’s.



Michelle Bachmann is asking all taxpayers who believe ACORN should not receive a single cent of federal funding due to multi-state investigations into the groups association with and direct contribution to voter fraud.
Rep. Bachmann has placed a petition on her sit that is asking Nancy Pelosi to immediately bring Rep. Bachmann's bill, Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act, to the floor for immediate vote. She was discussing this petition yesterday on Mark Levin's show.

As Rep. Bachmann says in her petition, on what side is Pelosi on, the voters or ACORN?




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