ACORN Files For More Of Your Money

On the same day the Senate voted to defund them, ACORN had their hand out asking for more money:

ACORN Institute has filed two separate applications with the Commerce Department [for stimulus money]. One in the amount of $3,172,042 and the other in amount of $2,999,903.

The grant description reads as follows:

“The Digital Empowerment Project bridges the digital divide in low-income and minority populations by promoting adoption through grassroots outreach, training participants in computer centers; and providing in-home computers and broadband access. This approach is based on research-driven practices and ensures an efficient and scalable effort to facilitate broadband in disadvantaged populations.”…

As The Examiner has previously reported, ACORN remains eligible for over $8 billion in federal funding through stimulus money and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

As they say in the political business, right now ACORN is radioactive. Nobody's gonna touch them.