ACORN,
MoveOn.org Could Receive Billions of Dollars
-- "Economic Stimulus" Designed to Aid Anti-gun Radicals
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
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Monday, February 2, 2009
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the
far left anti-gun group under investigation for voter fraud, could be
eligible to receive millions, if not billions of dollars from the
economic bailout bill that passed out of the House of Representatives.
ACORN was an aggressive supporter of Barack Obama -- who had served as
the group's legal counsel and even trained ACORN in "community
organizing" -- in the presidential election. The Obama campaign even
paid the group $800,000 for "voter turnout," the very activities that
came under scrutiny by the FBI.
In October 2008, ACORN's Las Vegas office was raided by law enforcement
agents investigating voter registration fraud. According to the Nevada
Secretary of State's office, voter information submitted by the group
included nonexistent names, false addresses, duplicate filings and even
the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.
In addition to turning in massive amounts of fraudulent voter
registration forms leading up to the 2008 elections, ACORN is also
involved in anti-Second Amendment activism. For instance, a New Jersey
ACORN chapter supported a one-gun-a-month ordinance in Jersey City, a
law that was struck down last year by an appeals court for violating the
State's preemption law.
This group should not be eligible to receive one penny of your tax
money, yet ACORN has received over $28 million in taxpayer dollars in
2008 alone and over $53 million since 1994. Last year, some members of
Congress were able to strip ACORN money from the home mortgage industry
bailout bill, but it was reinserted into the current legislation.
The total amount of money for which groups like ACORN would be eligible
in the bill is $4.2 billion, under a provision for "neighborhood
stabilization activities." According to the bill, the money can be
utilized by state and local governments and also "nonprofit entities or
consortia of nonprofit entities."
ACORN can possibly collect more money under this legislation that it has
over the past 15 years, and you can bet that ACORN is expert at
accessing those funds.
Another group that could benefit from the bailout bill is MoveOn.org, an
organization that has advocated for sweeping gun control laws.
According to Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican, "MoveOn.org's
civic action committee could receive stimulus funds such as money
earmarked for energy 'activities', since MoveOn.org lists one of its
goals to 'reduce America's dependence on oil.'"
Pro-gun Senator David Vitter (R-LA) sees the bill as "payoff" for the
liberal interest groups that helped to put Barack Obama in the White
House, and that some provisions in the bill were actually written with
specific interest groups in view.
Sen. Vitter told FOX News that the bill "is a payoff for that political
activity in last year's election, particularly with the fraudulent voter
registration drives," Sen. Vitter said.
The bottom line is that the only thing this bill will "stimulate" is
attacks against your gun rights by leftist anti-gun groups. Supporters
of the Second Amendment must take action now to see that such funding
provisions are stripped from the misnamed stimulus package.
The bailout measure passed out of the House of Representatives by a vote
of 244-188 and now heads to the Senate, where Senators have been working
on their own version of the bill.
ACTION: Please use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at
http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Senators the
pre-written e-mail message below...
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