“A World Without ACORN”
December 3, 2009
On Tuesday, Darrell Issa blasted the Obama Administration, accusing administration officials of covering up ACORN’s illegal activities. Issa leveled the charge during a forum he held to address a host of concerns surrounding ACORN–an event he convened because the Democrats in Congress have been dragging their feet, stalling a serious investigation into ACORN.
Key quote from the Washington Times‘ coverage of the event:
“The current administration is fast becoming, in reality, the war room of ACORN’s political machine,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican. “I am concerned that the era of corruption promulgated by ACORN and protected by the White House is just the beginning.”
The top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said ACORN has engaged in “illegal, partisan activities designed to help individual Democratic members.”
“This (action) goes from city councilmen to state assemblymen all the way to President Barack Obama,” he said.”
Issa expands his ACORN criticisms in a piece for the American Spectator here. In the article, entitled “A World Without ACORN,” Issa points out that ACORN’s defenders “whine” thatwithout ACORN the nation’s poor and downtrodden will have no one to help them … as if there aren’t countless other worthy organizations dedicated to doing just that.
Issa lists off dozens of other groups that are doing a fine job of helping the less fortunate and ends with this:
“Clearly, ACORN deserves to lose its tax-exempt status and has forfeited its right to receive taxpayer dollars — dollars more responsibly awarded to thousands of other worthy community-based organizations around which a cloud of criminal suspicion does not hang. Congress was right to defund ACORN, and the Obama administration is wrong in its attempt to explain away the law to keep the money funneling into ACORN’s illicit enterprise.
“Indeed, a world without ACORN would still see government resources helping the poor, keeping down home foreclosures, and opening up economic and political opportunities for those most in need. In fact, it would see those resources used more efficiently, successfully, and lawfully.”