Reply #42: How about this?

[hughee99]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27153.html

Excerpts from the link...
"The Senate dealt a blow to ACORN Monday evening, voting to deny the Department of Housing and Urban Development from granting funds to the community organization."

"In a statement, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis said: "We’re disappointed that the Senate took the rare and politically convenient step of supporting eliminating some federal funding for a single organization, one that has been the target of a multi-year political assault stemming variously from the Bush White House, Fox News, and other conservative quarters."

So if ACORN doesn't get government funds, that means that HUD hasn't given ACORN money before and the Senate took the preemptive measure to prevent them from doing so.

Of course, then it's rather peculiar that ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis would say that they're "ELIMINATING SOME FEDERAL FUNDING" as a result, if they've never given money to ACORN in the first place.

They didn't eliminate any funding, just stipulating that the money not be dispersed by a government organization to ACORN.