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In reply to the discussion: Here's what will happen because of Ferguson: [View all]former9thward
(32,003 posts)65. It wasn't just the GOP.
Democrats Run Away from Embattled ACORN
WASHINGTON Democrats in Congress are abandoning an embattled community organizing group after Republicans stepped up attacks on the liberal-leaning ACORN and the federal funding it receives.
Majorities of Senate and House Democrats voted Thursday in favor of separate Republican proposals to block federal funding for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The group has come under heavy criticism following the release Monday of a video showing ACORN employees apparently advising a couple, posing as a prostitute accompanied by her pimp, about how to conceal their line of work, evade taxes and handle undocumented, under-age sex workers.
In the Senate, 45 Democrats and Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn., backed an amendment offered by Nebraska Republican Mike Johanns to bar any funds provided under the fiscal 2010 Interior Appropriations bill (HR 2996) to go to ACORN.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32917270/ns/politics-cq_politics/t/democrats-run-away-embattled-acorn/#.VHfFRPnESPs
WASHINGTON Democrats in Congress are abandoning an embattled community organizing group after Republicans stepped up attacks on the liberal-leaning ACORN and the federal funding it receives.
Majorities of Senate and House Democrats voted Thursday in favor of separate Republican proposals to block federal funding for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The group has come under heavy criticism following the release Monday of a video showing ACORN employees apparently advising a couple, posing as a prostitute accompanied by her pimp, about how to conceal their line of work, evade taxes and handle undocumented, under-age sex workers.
In the Senate, 45 Democrats and Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn., backed an amendment offered by Nebraska Republican Mike Johanns to bar any funds provided under the fiscal 2010 Interior Appropriations bill (HR 2996) to go to ACORN.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32917270/ns/politics-cq_politics/t/democrats-run-away-embattled-acorn/#.VHfFRPnESPs
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REP
Nov 2014
#48
The suggestion was to test police officers for steroids. But if we can't believe the
totodeinhere
Nov 2014
#80
I think that the contract that the police union has with the city probably addresses
totodeinhere
Nov 2014
#84
Be careful, because the Fed's "eyes in the sky" (drones) will be watching you. And recording you.
blkmusclmachine
Nov 2014
#15
That is why the Democratic Party Leadership torpedoed ACORN as fast as they could.
bvar22
Nov 2014
#54
My recollection was that the Republicans run ACORN out of business. So, if you are correct,
ladjf
Nov 2014
#58
IMO, nothing will happen until you get a majority of the country to emotionally feel the problem.
FLPanhandle
Nov 2014
#23
Amen. You will know the corporate Third Way by their refusal to demand real change here.
woo me with science
Nov 2014
#31
in larger communities there has been a change of mission- statistics compiled are used to give pcts
bettyellen
Nov 2014
#40
No, the more the police understand there will be dire consequences to blasting folks
TheKentuckian
Nov 2014
#42
WOW! You finally get around to talking about the racial problem after two tasteless & disgusting
KittyWampus
Nov 2014
#44
Manny is just all about attention seeking... vhat? vaz you saying something about attention...
dionysus
Nov 2014
#69
The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness has been unconstitutionally
indepat
Nov 2014
#45