Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding


North Carolina Democratic U.S. Reps. G.K. Butterfield of Wilson and David Price of Chapel Hill voted this afternoon to protect ACORN'S right to receive federal funding.

U.S. Rep. Mel Watt, a Charlotte Democrat, voted present, Barb Barrett reports.

The rest of the delegation supported the measure, put forward by Republicans who are attacking the national community development organization.

This week, YouTube videos showed frontline employees at a handful of ACORN offices offering advice to two young undercover activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp.

According to Republican estimates, ACORN has received $53 million in federal funding in the past 15 years. The vote in the House passed 345-75.

On Monday, the U.S. Senate voted to prohibit ACORN from receiving federal funding in the spending bill that covers the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development.

U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Democrat, voted yes in the 83-7 vote. U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, a Republican, did not vote.

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AFBBP want to know where Dallas Woodhouse stands?

It's a simple question. If you have a belly button and aren't from Mars, show it to the Americans For Belly Button Purity council.

If not, you're a liar and one of them, Dallas.

"YOU LIE!"

Re:Most NC Dems vote against ACORN, DALLAS goes loopy

Sky, do you really think I'm being paid to make fun of the Woodhouse Punkin'Head? Every family has one. I get the SciFi Channel and I've seen "Dallas" debate his brother. Durr, durr, Dallas is against that. Dallas say here my statement. Durrrr, durrrr, really? "Dallas" blogs here and posts what "Dallas" says? Is nobody listening but you?

Your "movement" should be flushed along with all Dallas says.

"Durr, duur, I are bright and have no idea where my special interests salary for AFP come from. I are monkey for right. Durr."

Durr.

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Looks like paid pol/ops should work a little harder posting comments. At least Woodhouse, a professional just like some other paid political posters here, uses his real name. We amateurs are going to stay anonymous.

From the Daily Telegraph (Great Britain):
"ACORN story fells the big oaks of the mainstream media"

"If there’s one story that’s had it all in the past week it’s the series of undercover reporting stings that have uncovered the true nature of ACORN – the Association of Community Organisations for Reform Now. It’s got sex, misuse of taxpayer funds, the condoning of illegal activity by officials and connections to Barack Obama.

You would be forgiven for having missed it, however, because it’s got almost no play in the mainstream media. It wasn’t the “New York Times”, CNN or NBC who broke the story. Rather, it was two twenty-something independents with a few thousand dollars, a bit of time and a lot of guts."

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100010406/acorn-story-fells-the-big-oaks-of-mainstream-media/

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

well .... if avgjoe says so, I guess thats it. joe moves in some pretty important circles ya know.

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Submitted by dallaswoodhouse

Statement from Dallas Woodhouse on Rep. David Price's vote to allow public funds to continue to flow to ACORN:

Statement of GiggleBox on statement by Dallas Woodhouse posted in comments of Under the Dome by Dallas Woodhouse while referring to Dallas Woodhouse in third person:

It looks like the head of Americans for Prosperity needs a job.

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Avg Joe is telling it like it is!

There is no reason to be upset over anything that ACORN has done. They are doing the Lord's work. The right wing wackos just love to get upset.

ACORN provides valuable community organization. And registering Mickey Mouse to vote was long overdue. Mickey has been a bulwark of freedom here in America and it is time he got the right to vote. If you are not a friend of Mickey, then you are no friend of mine.

I would like to see ACORN take over the North Carolina ABC Board.....and the community colleges......and administer the H1N1 flu shots....and administer Obamacare. If you want a job done right, then give it to ACORN.

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

The whole ACORN story seems like a big yawner to me. For as excited as conservatives seem to get over this topic, the rest of the country could care less.

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Don't forget Dumpling. McCrory was ahead in the final polls until the ACORN votes were counted (wink wink). Dumpling owes her job to ACORN even more than Price does.

Price is secure unless UNC and Durham are moved out of his district. He has been gerrymandered for life. He is every bit as secure as Pelosi in San Francisco ......

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Another day without a front-page story on ACORN.

How can you continue to ignore this story? What other stories do I see ... hmm, "ice cream shop is licked" (though I like Sue Stock's stories); "the last hurray for hollywood" ... please, surely you have the space to do a real story on ACORN. Just publish an extreme Lefty NYT version of it, like your sister paper the Charlotte Observer has done.

Pretty lame, sbharrell. You can do better than that.

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Career politicians breed corruption and lies. Vote them out or they and their cronies either die in ore retire from office..

Option one....you win
Option two....you lose

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Obviously the N&O hasnt reported until now on the ACORN story because it is protecting George Bush. Another Right Wing conspiracy. I see Karl Rove and Dick Cheney's fingerprints all over this. We need a conspiracy Czar.

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Last year ACORN got $880,000 from the Obama campaign.

In the UK, the Daily Telegraph had a front-page article on the ACORN videos, with a picture of Obama right there & the word "brothel" - they dared to do what NO newspaper or media outlet would do - link the former community organizer with a thoroughly corrupt criminal organization. And of course once Obama became an attorney he represented them.

N&O reporters - can't you just imagine the Pulitzer you could get, if you really did some true investigative reporting on ACORN & exactly who is beholden to this organization in NC? It's simple ... follow the money ... and the votes!

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Statement from Dallas Woodhouse on Rep. David Price's vote to allow public funds to continue to flow to ACORN:

"Today Congressman David Price along with fellow North Carolina Congressman G. K.Butterfield cast a disgraceful vote on the floor on the U.S. House to allow taxpayer funds to continue to flow to the corrupt organization known as ACORN.

This group is already charged in many states with voting registration fraud, and now we know their employees think nothing of telling prospective homebuyers to defraud taxpayers and support underage prostitution.

As these new videos show ACORN has no regard for the law, the taxpayers or the young children that would have been victimized had this series of schemes been true. Were the people who voted not to deny funds worried that hookers and pimps would not be able to get fraudulent loans any more?

You have to wonder who Mr. Price and Mr. Butterfield were representing today because it was surely was not the taxpayers of North Carolina."

Dallas Woodhouse
North Carolina State Director
Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina

919-839-1011 ext 3

200 West Morgan Street
Suite 100
Raleigh, NC 27601
Dallas.Woodhouse@afphq.org

Advancing every North Carolinian's right to economic freedom and opportunity

Please join Americans For Prosperity by visiting: http://americansforprosperity.org/coming-soon

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Gee! I'm sure that the fact that every ACORN office they tried was willing to engage in grossly illegal activity was an anomaly, and not indicative of ACORN's overall operation, right?

I'm sure that there were only four ACORN offices in the entire country that had a few rogue employees, and these two kids just happened to hit up the right four offices out of pure luck, right?

And the fact that those employees, who were certainly rogues uh huh, just happened to be the first ones you'd see when you walked in the door - was also just luck, right?

I mean, it couldn't be that ACORN is as thoroughly corrupt an organization as their reputation would have you believe, right? Surely if there's corruption in ACORN, it doesn't extend to their 'voter outreach' programs, right?

All those accusations of wide-scale voter fraud on behalf of the Democratic Party are all bunk, aren't they?

Because there's just no way that our clean, articulate President would have ever given this group money out of his campaign coffers if any of that were true, right?

Couldn't be! No story here beyond this. Now, onto tomorrow's top story about how Richard Burr gave someone a cross glance...

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Price sponsored Legislation to require ACCOUNTABILITY of FEDERAL Security Contractor (aka Blackwater)....when it was POPULAR. NOW, HE votes AGAINST Accountability for ACORN....

Also....If you want to understand HIS Beliefs, then look at the Travel Voucher he filed for he and HIS WIFE to travel to London and Paris for a meeting to better understand the "Islamic" opression in Egypt...No, I ain't had a BudLite...

Here is the LINK....from the FED GOV's Travel (expense) reports...cut and paste it....really gives me a better understanding of his mind...and what the criteria for professor must be at UNX...

http://clerk.house.gov/GTImages/MT/2008/500001805.pdf

This is RICH.....read the verbiage....NOW WE KNOW....

What a HYPOCRITE.....

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

I HOPE that the voters recognize that David Price has really LOST touch....even with his most extreme liberal base. I THOUGHT that he would be PART of the Deomocratic Majority (172) that voted to DEFUND ACORN. It is a sad day in NC, especially, the Triangle, when DP votes as he does. It is REALLY time to support a REAL representative next time. As a LIFELONG Democrat, I refuse to support him any longer.

He is a disgrace and should be removed from office...

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Butterfield & Price owe their congressional seats to ACORN, which along with its affiliated non-profit organizations, launders our tax dollars in order to buy votes.

Seriously, how many Republican voters do you think have gotten registered in NC as a result of ACORN's many voter registration drives?

That's why some congressional leaders are talking about criminal prosecutions for RICO crimes. I also don't see anything reported here about NC being one of 20 states where ACORN is being investigated. "this week, videos ..." No, it was LAST WEEK. Go to biggovernment.com & educate yourselves.

This is the FIRST article in the N&O - just finally couldn't ignore it anymore, right? Even the Charlotte Observer had some articles about ACORN. Where are the related articles, N&O? In fact, why not interview Butterfield & Price as to why they voted to continue to support ACORN?

Re: Butterfield, Price vote for ACORN funding

Are you kidding me? How can representatives Price and Butterfield possible justify continuing funding to this corrupt organization. Their vote is an affront to every American. Instead, they should be leading a charge to have the DOJ and IRS launch an end-to-end investigation of every dollar we taxpayers spent with Acorn. They have proven time and time again that they are dishonest and engage in criminality. Mr. price and Mr. Buttefield need to be turned out of office as soon as they can. You are an embarrasment to your constituency. Shame on you Mr. Price. Shame on you Mr. Butterfield. You have proven yourselves unworthy of public trust in defending this criminal enterprise. but we as taxpayers and Americans will have the last laugh when we put you in the growing unemployment line.