John Boehner: Cut Off Funding for ACORN

The GOP is quickly catching on to the seriousness of the ACORN voter fraud and their potential impact on both the election and the mortgage crisis. Today Minority Leader John Boehner called for an end of federal funding for the corrupt organization:

House Republican leader John A. Boehner of Ohio escalated the war on ACORN today, calling for it to be cut off from all federal money and going so far as to call for a ban on ACORN contracting with candidates for federal office.

ACORN, a community organizing group allied with Democrats, has been blamed by the GOP for pushing housing policies that Republicans say contributed to the housing crisis. It has been the subject of investigations for voter registration fraud and its Nevada offices were recently raided. …

ACORN receives federal money through the affordable housing trust fund after that money has been sent to states and local governments. So Congress, to keep the group from getting money, would need to specifically forbid ACORN from being eligible to get federal funds.

“Contracting for services between candidates for federal office and ACORN, as Sen. Obama has done, must end,” says Boehner. “Now that the taxpayers own Fannie Mae, any funding from Fannie Mae’s nonprofit foundation to ACORN must stop.”

Go get 'em, and be sure to tie Democrats to them as you go. If there's one thing we can hope for out of this election is that ACORN as an organization will be so poisoned in the minds of the public that no congressman will ever be able to sneak funds for them into another bill.

In a related post, Iowahawk reports on a new ACORN lawsuit:

ACORN Files Voting Rights Suit on Behalf of Imaginary-Americans

ST. LOUIS - Attorneys for the voting registration organizations ACORN and Project Vote filed an anti-discrimination voting rights suit in the U.S. Federal District court this morning, alleging the United States government is involved in "a widespread, systematic effort to disenfranchise Imaginary-Americans and deprive them of access to polls."

"Participation in our electoral process is a fundamental right, and the foundation of our democracy," said ASDF ASDFG, a spokesperson for the National Association for the Advancement of Imaginary People, one of the groups named as plaintiffs in the class action. "We will not be silent when government denies people access to the polls on the basis of color, or sex, or existential status."

Read the rest here.