Was the bailout going to fund ACORN?
September 26th, 2008
Lindsay Graham first mentioned this last night and has now repeated in an interview with Meredith Viera:
SEN. GRAHAM: Yeah. As I understand it, about 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning, I was in the House, meeting with House Republicans to talk about what we could do. You had three senators, I think, from the Republican side and several senators on the Democratic side meet by themselves, have a news conference — “We’ve got an agreement.”
I never heard about it until I went to the Republican lunch. And if you were in the lunch, it was clear that there was not a consensus about this agreement. There was never an agreement that had buy-in by the House and the Senate.
I appreciate their efforts. But 20 percent of the money that would be collected back to retire the debt we’re going to incur would have went to housing programs, programs like ACORN that have been very fraudulent in nature. So nobody on the Republican side was going to sign up to that.
ACORN or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is a “community organization of low- and moderate-income families that addresses housing, schools, neighborhood safety, health care, job conditions, and other social issues that affect its members. ” The organization has been linked to voter fraud.
The group is also tied to Senator Barack Obama. According to the Associated Press:
“Obama was part of a team of attorneys who represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois in 1995 for failing to implement a federal law designed to make it easier for the poor and others to register as voters.”
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