Thread: ACORN Qualifies for Funding in Senate Health Care Bill

Exclusive: ACORN Qualifies for Funding in Senate Health Care Bill


Senator Roland Burris is claiming credit for a provision in Harry Reid's "manager's amendment," unveiled Saturday morning, that could funnel money to ACORN through the health care bill.

On December 9, Burris, an Illinois Democrat, pledged that he would filibuster a health care bill without a public option. "If we have to get 60 and it comes back and it does not have a public option in it, I will not vote for it," he said. Then early last week he said he could vote for the bill if there were changes made to achieve the goals of the public option: "until this bill addresses cost, competition, and accountability in a meaningful way—it will not win [my vote]."

Asked last night before the Senate voted why he was planning to support a bill without a public option, Burris said: "We have a great bill--the best we could get. And it also covers most of our concerns: competition, cost, and accountability." But had anything specifically changed in the text of the bill that helped him change his mind? Burris told THE WEEKLY STANDARD: "It was the disparity provision that was put in, which we had something to do with, in terms of making sure that diabetes and the other diseases that are affecting minorities are really studied by HHS in all of these pilot programs."

The provision he cites, found on pages 240 through 248 of the manager's amendment, requires that six different agencies each establish an “Office of Minority Health.â€

Traitor is too good a word for Reid and his buddies!!!

I had a feeling ACORN would get taken care of in this mess. ACORN is a lawless contrivance. And if the likes of Ried and his cronies want to keep them around, they are doing it only to make sure that ACORN gives them unswerving allegence to keep the socialist dems in office and to help proliferate it, as they would like nothing better than to wipe out any opposition to their socialist utopian ideology, and any that oppose them can be sent to barbed-wire re-education camps.

Yes Acorn is the Obama administration enforcment goons that is for sure!