Posted by
Always To The Right on Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:13:55 PM
Congressional Republicans have finally demanded an end to federal funding for ACORN
after more than a dozen states have opened investigations into fraud in
their voter-registration efforts. House Minority Leader John Boehner
has not only called to end that funding for ACORN but also for all
federal candidates to stop contracting with ACORN while investigations
continue into their business practices
The federal government should never have funded ACORN in the first
place, especially when it and other organizations like it take partisan
positions in elections. The very fact that Senator Barack Obama hires
ACORN and spends $800,000 on them in a month represents a conflict of
interest in providing federal funds. Essentially, those who earmark
funds to ACORN have done nothing different from those who have their
legislative aides do campaign work out of their offices — and everyone
knows it.