‘From My Cold, Dead Scams!’ — House Democrats Fight to Save ACORN
There were 75 House Dems who didn’t vote to de-fund ACORN, and now one has some company in trying to make it illegal for the government to de-fund them. Seriously:
Top-ranking liberal lawmaker Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) pressed her colleagues to support a legislative counterpunch to the GOP’s effort to defund the controversial grass-roots organizing group
McCollum, a senior Democratic Whip in her caucus, challenged the 172 Democrats who supported a measure to cut off federal funds for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) to endorse a similar measure geared towards private companies in business with the government.
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McCollum circulated a “Dear Colleague” letter for members to sign last week in which she explained that her bill “is modeled after (the Defund ACORN Act) H.R. 3571 but respects the Constituiton by requiring a corporation to be guilty of a felony before federal funds are cut off.” [con’t]