More news on Obama youth movement. Funded by none other than ACORN

From the swamp.
The Senate effectively killed an amendment last week that would have 
stopped federal funding for the corrupt group, ACORN. This organization
has had numerous people arrested for fraudulent voter regsistrations which
includes dead people and convicts still serving time in prison. The democrats
have rallied to support ACORN as they hold it close and dear to their hearts
as one of the liberal building blocks of community activism and slippery
slope voter registrationand slippery slope funding.
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The amendment was offered to the National Service Act being considered by the chamber.


The bill is aimed at providing $5.7 billion to aid 250,000 volunteers across the country in the arenas of health care, energy, environment and education.

The U.S. Senate killed an amendment Thursday offered by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., that would have prohibited federal volunteer funds from going to the community group ACORN and its affiliates.
 
 

Vitter singled out the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a nationwide community organization of low- and moderate-income people. He laid emphasis on the fact that group members have been arrested for fraudulent voter registration.

Vitter contended that no charitable group with a political arm should receive the volunteer funding. “At the heart of this debate is whether this new federal bureaucracy would, in effect, politicize charitable activity around the country, which we certainly do not want,” Vitter said. Continue reading

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