Buried ACORN

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Can’t get the story

The left-wing community organizing group ACORN has been getting hammered recently because some of its employees were recorded while advising a purported pimp and his hooker how to get subsidized housing, and avoid paying taxes.  It’s classic tv…practically worthy of Saturday Night Live, if it wasn’t a taxpayer funded group.  The Congress voted this week to cut off funding to the group, but Rhode Island’s junior Senator, Sheldon Whitehouse, voted to continue funding the organization.  It’s made a few rappers unhappy..not just about the vote, but about the coverage, or lack thereof, in the local media.  Here are the comments:

Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced an amendment to the HUD and Transportation appropriation bill to strip ACORN of all federal funding.  A week ago, Johanns wouldn’t have gotten the amendment to the floor.  Today, however, after three straight days of BigGovernment.com’s video exposés of ACORN offices in Washington DC, New York City, and Baltimore offering assistance to pimping, tax evasion, and trafficking in underage Salvadorean girls, Johanns not only got his vote — but he got an impressive bipartisan showing.  The Senate passed the Johanns amendment 83-7.

The nay votes?

Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Roland Burris (D-IL)
Robert Casey (D-PA)
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

Sheldon Whitehouse one of 7 Senators to side with ACORN whats his reasoning?
David D.

I’ve responded to several of your Rapp Questions, but now I feel the question should be directed at you (journalists). Do you feel the media has been accurately reporting on recent events?  Do you feel your political commentary is fair and balanced?  When I watch people like Lester Holt comment that Van Jones resigned “after pressure from the GOP” I have to ask myself - did he really listen to the comments that Van Jones made?  Is that acceptable behavior for a high-ranking government official?  What about ACORN and the blatant disregard for the law, or simple ethics for that matter?  I guess it’s okay that President Obama served as their attorney.  Do you think “60 Minutes” 
or another such show would even consider doing an expose on ACORN? I’m not holding my breath.  Fox News keeps getting bashed for reporting these items, but I don’t see the media refuting them.  The US Census Bureau has now severed ties with ACORN and their potential involvement with the census - sounds like big news to me, but not highly publicized.
Mary Beth
Swansea, MA

I’m very disheartened by the fact that most news stations and newspapers are not reporting on the Baltimore ACORN story. This is a radical group who has close ties with our President, was a major campaign contributer, and recieved federal stimulus money. Now they give advice to a couple posing as a Pimp and a Prostitue on how to evade taxes and start a brothel with underage girls from El Salvador. How are you not reporting this! -Kendra

I will by next week have people watching your news stations to see who the sponsors are and reporting to the tea party on what is, or most importantly is not reported on.  The public is deeply disappointed by what we now believe is a state controlled media.  Thank you for your attention to these paramount issues to us.
Ronald L.

IS HE NUTS!  Whitehouse will never get reelected if I can do anything to help his opponent.  One of seven Senators voted to continue funding for this bogus group of nitwits.  83 Senators voted NO. 
J.S.