Acorn

The U.S. House voted to suspend all federal funding for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) on Thursday afternoon by a vote of 345 to 75. Now the measure heads to the Senate, which passed a bill banning federal housing monies from going to the embattled nonprofit.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty has perfected the political backpedal over the past few months, pressing forward then pulling back on one issue after another. He started on topics like whether he’d sign an election certificate for the Franken-Coleman winner or accept federal stimulus money, then moved on to death panels, states’ rights to opt out of [...]

Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s letter cutting off (nonexistent) state funding to ACORN is “pretty clearly political opportunism on the governor’s part,” ACORN state political director Chris Stinson tells the Minnesota Independent. “Gov. Pawlenty is piling on.”

Gov. Tim Pawlenty jumped into the ACORN fray Wednesday by ordering a freeze on all state payments to the embattled community-organizer group.
But, as the Star Tribune reports, currently no state funds go to the group.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has a had a rough week. The Census Bureau dropped the organization as a community partner after a FOX News sting operation, prompting praise from Rep. Michele Bachmann. Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar voted with the majority in the U.S. Senate to block ACORN from [...]

A Stephen Colbert segment on ACORN’s involvement in the 2010 U.S. Census is locally noteworthy for mentioning Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann’s opposition to the community organizing group. But it’s entertaining for the Comedy Central host’s other antics: serenading ACORN head Bertha Lewis — at length — with a song from “The Lion King” and revealing to [...]

Rep. Michele Bachmann continued her campaign against Rep. Barney Frank and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) on Fox News’ Hannity on Wednesday. Despite Bachmann’s claims on the show, a new bill introduced by Frank will not funnel money to ACORN and ACORN is not “under indictment” in 12 states for “voter [...]

Recent statements by Rep. Michele Bachmann about ACORN and the U.S. Census have the media and watchdog groups piling on. Bachmann has said several times in the last week that her family will leave most of the census blank because ACORN has signed on to be a partner organization.
Politifact, a Pulitzer prize-winning website, fact-checked Rep. [...]

Rep. Michele Bachmann, who may be redistricted out of a job based on next year’s Census findings, has already stated she won’t respond to certain Census questions required by law for fear that ACORN will get its hands on the info. Now she’s working to spread the fear — by conjuring the internment of Japanese-Americans [...]

Rep. Michele Bachmann told the Washington Times on Wednesday that she will not be filling out all the questions on next year’s census because ACORN will be one of the federal government’s many community partners for conducting the census. But what she is proposing to do is illegal, the Times reports.