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November 28, 2009
Obama and Eric Holder Say Acorn Can Be Paid for Pre-Ban Contracts
Justice Department Says Acorn Can Be Paid for Pre-Ban Contracts (ACORN will be paid with taxpayer funds)
The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing funds to the group.
The department’s conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, adds a new wrinkle to a sharp political debate over the antipoverty group’s activities and recent efforts to distance the government from it.
Since 1994, Acorn, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has received about $53 million in federal aid, much of it grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for providing various services related to affordable housing.
But the group has become a prime target for conservative critics, and on Oct. 1, President Obama signed into law a spending bill that included a provision that said no taxpayer funds — including funds authorized by previous legislation — could be “provided to” the group or its affiliates.
Wild Thing's comment.........
Shameless. This is like a mob boss telling store owners they have to divvy up for the bag man every week.
Par for the course for Eric Holder, Barack Hussein Obama, and their scumbag racist thugs.
ACORN is a criminal enterprise, and Obama and his thugs are criminals for participating in this unholy attack on justice, the law, and truth.
Obama and the Justice Dept. are arguing that some existing contracts entered into the executive branch officials–which haven’t been disclosed to the public–supercede the Congressional legislation. But only Congress can dictate how funds are spent.
.....Thank you Chief.
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Posted by Wild Thing at November 28, 2009 02:48 AM
Comments
I see this as the way obama does things. He never throws anyone under the Bus. They are merely moved to the back of the bus until he can find a way to bring them forward again, under less scrutiny. By doing this he is virtually bypassing an order by congress to suspend Federal Money to ACORN.
obama is as dirty as they come. Congress in all of its infinite stupidity, does not see that obama is taking power away from Congress a litle at a time. Like what Hitler did in 1932 he had parlament pass the Enabling Act, giving Hitler power to make laws as he saw fit.
We are watching our country torn apart bit by bit.
Posted by: Mark at November 28, 2009 08:16 AM
Can you spell
L E G I S L A T I N G
F R O M
T H E
B E N C H
Holder is just plain Dictating!!!
Posted by: Jack at November 28, 2009 03:14 PM
Mark, yes, that really is what he does.
"He never throws anyone under the Bus. They are merely moved to the back of the bus until he can find a way to bring them forward again, under less scrutiny."
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 28, 2009 06:41 PM
Jack, yessss.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 28, 2009 06:42 PM
