Jindal blocks non-existent state funding for ACORN.
Jindal blocks non-existent state funding for ACORN.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is trying to shore up his anti-ACORN bona fides. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports today that Jindal issued an executive order barring state funds from going to the community organizing group. However, there’s one small kink in Jindal’s plan:
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal issued an executive order to keep any state money from going to the controversy-wracked Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has its national headquarters in New Orleans.
According to the state’s Division of Administration, no state agencies have existing contracts with ACORN.
Since recently released videos showing ACORN staff engaging in inappropriate and potentially unlawful activity, the group’s president said ACORN will conduct a “thorough review” of the organization’s operation. (HT: TPM)
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That misbegotten idiot Pawlenty did the same thing this morning.
Heh. P.T. Barnum was right: there’s a sucker born every minute.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:23 pmPawlenty did the same thing here in Minnesota, no funds going to ACORN but repug see, repug do. GOP is the Asshat party of America.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:24 pmDumb and dumber – who’s going to be the dumbest? Sanford???
September 18th, 2009 at 3:25 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Jindal blocks non-existant state funding for ACORN.
– - Non-existent.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:26 pmSo, joemono, since we’ve had corrupt thieving Republican after corrupt thieving Republican, how about we pass a law in order to prevent any future monies going to *them*…?
You’re an idiot.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:27 pmjoemono is working hard to get his comment voted down in record time.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:29 pmJindal issued an executive order barring state funds from going to {ACORN}.
– - Jindal also issued an executive order barring state funds from going to ice-breaker ships in the Gulf.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:29 pm***
#4,
with bobby all things are possible.
he’s a very spiritual and creative
kind of guy.
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he can also blow corn
muffins out of his nose.
:)
September 18th, 2009 at 3:30 pmjoemono says:
Isn’t it possible that Jindal gave this order to prevent any future monies from going to ACORN?
– - Uh huh, and birth certificates to prove citizenship for future presidents, right?
September 18th, 2009 at 3:31 pmACORN is one of the right’s favorite punching bags. Progressives need a common response to the accusations against these ACORN staff members. Two Congress members from my area – one a full throated right winger and one a Blue Dog Dem – have said they are pushing to federally defund ACORN.
Part of my response to all this is: why the overkill?
September 18th, 2009 at 3:31 pmShould we destroy an organization because a few people acted outside that organization’s rules, without a thorough investigation of the incident and if the actions were sanctioned higher up? The right sure didn’t act that way with the CIA torture, the Abu Ghraib abuses, Blackwater’s actions. It was AUTOMATICALLY “a few bad actors” rather than the organization as a whole – no investigation needed, thank you very much. But with ACORN, it’s “an evil organization” at the core.
Jindal is trying to drive out the demons from an acorn. He is a classic wingnut.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:31 pmSomewhere, a village of idiots, have lost their village. There is an idiot born everyday and Jindal is one of them.
GOP party: Monkey see, monkey do.
Stay classy, Bobby.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:32 pm.
That’s like Bobby Jindal announcing the annulment of his gay marriage…
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September 18th, 2009 at 3:33 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Gov. Bobby Jindal can issue executive order to keep any state money from going to
Fast Food…Used Car Lots…Department Stores…Strip Joints…
Uh, maybe not the Strip Joints, they are too important.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:33 pmBut there are dozens of Republican state administrations that have contracts with ACORN, which should put to rest the notion that Obama or Democrats are somehow laying “favorites” in dealing with them.
http://www.political-buzz.com/
September 18th, 2009 at 3:34 pm.
I bet Bobby sees Mexico from HIS front porch.
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September 18th, 2009 at 3:36 pm***
it’s like when bobby passed a law blocking
his eyebrows from ever growing back.
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people laughed but it worked.
:0
September 18th, 2009 at 3:36 pmbobby swindal’s at it again i see, tilting at windmills.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:37 pmSay goodbye Kenneth!
September 18th, 2009 at 3:38 pmWhat do you expect from an “exorcist?”
He exorcises demons that aren’t there.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:38 pmHow much does the state of Louisiana have budgeted for snipe hunts??
September 18th, 2009 at 3:39 pmThose Guys are a couple of D-Nozzels.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:40 pmjoemono says:
Leftside Annie: You extremists get so upset over the slightest challenges to your ideas. Have a nice weekend!
Sorry, little joey. There’s nothing “extremist” about recognizing idiocy when I see it.
And besides, sweetpea, you *didn’t* “challenge my idea” – you simply said something really stupid.
Toddle off now, chump. Dismissed.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:41 pmSpeaking of loud mouths of the G(no)P… O.T.
‘You lie’ Wilson shows two faces on illegal immigration
By Kathleen Miller
Published: September 18, 2009
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/18/you-lie-wilson-shows-two-faces-on-illegal-immigration/
Maybe Bobby can direct Wilson to the nearest ACORN office to find a corrupt agent to house the illegal immigrant supported by Wilson. Maybe if Wilson pretends to be a pimp? I’m sure he and Bobby can shop around.
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September 18th, 2009 at 3:42 pmt’is fall up here in the northeast. i’m going to collect BIG boxes of acorns from the woods and send them to boo-hoo glenda becky, bobby swindal and timmeh pawlenty. who’s up for it?
September 18th, 2009 at 3:44 pm.
joemonotone said:
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September 18th, 2009 at 3:45 pmJindal is like the little schoolboy trying to get the teacher’s attention and show off to his friends. But no one is paying attention to him including his friends. They think he is a fool.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:45 pm.
Sarah/Bobb 2012
They prtect America from their front porches!
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September 18th, 2009 at 3:48 pmJindal is blowing hot air out of his ass AGAIN!!!
September 18th, 2009 at 3:49 pmThat misbegotten idiot Pawlenty did the same thing this morning.
Heh. P.T. Barnum was right: there’s a sucker born every minute.
Not to mention that both of these @ssclowns also went around claiming credit for handing out federal stimulus money. Jindal even went so far as to hand out those fake giant-size checks, drawn on stim money, signed by Jindal!
September 18th, 2009 at 3:58 pmPolitical interference in open bid contracting procedures strikes me as potentially illegal.
That’s probably the reason why only governors who don’t actually have any contracts with ACORN are doing it.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:01 pmHis next plan is to outlaw flying unicorns
After that, he will ban the use of state funds for blinker fluid, frequency grease, and snipe traps
Right wingers are just plain stupid
September 18th, 2009 at 4:07 pmWhat clowns…They can’t even figure out a strategy or get the FACTS right before they implement the orders from Rush…These people are so stupid it hurts in the bones sometimes just to think about them…..aarrgghh…..
September 18th, 2009 at 4:08 pmYou can GO HERE to tell Gov. Droopy Dawg that he is stretching the truth when it comes to ACORN…AND…those big checks that he’s been giving out around the state (the ones that DO include stimulus funds but that he makes it look like the monies are comeing from him!).
Liar…Liar…Pants and Political Ambitions may be on Fire!
http://www.gov.la.gov/index.cfm?md=form&tmp=email_governor
September 18th, 2009 at 4:12 pmBobby, who is really Piyush and a Hindu despite pretending to be Catholic, pretends to block nonexistent funding.
Just another day in Louisiana.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:13 pmThe Jindal giveth not but the Jindal taketh away.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:22 pmSoapBox says:
You can GO HERE to tell Gov. Droopy Dawg that he is stretching the truth when it comes to ACORN
September 18th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
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Wait – I thought Joe Lieberman ws Droopy Dawg…
September 18th, 2009 at 4:23 pmpenalcolony says:
Bobby, who is really Piyush and a Hindu despite pretending to be Catholic.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
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Let’s not start going there. We don’t need to give Gov. Jindal the “Secret Hindu” treatment. We should be above that sort of crap.
Also – any word on whether the governor also cut of funding for someting called “volcano monitoring” in the state of Louisiana?
September 18th, 2009 at 4:25 pm***
bobby’s plan to segregate aliens and
put them into district 9 is brilliant.
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>:|
September 18th, 2009 at 4:34 pmLet’s not start going there. We don’t need to give Gov. Jindal the “Secret Hindu” treatment. We should be above that sort of crap.
Well said, toasterhead.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:38 pmHear hear, CT. If we’re outraged that they don’t see the racism in the critiques of Obama, then we can’t give fodder for our critiques of Jindal. Race has NO place in arguments.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:40 pmchiroptera toasterhead says:
Also – any word on whether the governor also cut of funding for someting called “volcano monitoring” in the state of Louisiana?
Oh, he was actually against states that actually have volcanoes getting federal funds to monitor them in order to warn nearby communities of potential catastrophe.
Apparently the governor of Louisiana is against the federal government trying to prevent disasters that could lead to massive loss of life.
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September 18th, 2009 at 4:42 pmit’s
Acting!!
September 18th, 2009 at 4:45 pmHis next plan is to outlaw flying unicorns
After that, he will ban the use of state funds for blinker fluid, frequency grease, and snipe traps
Dont forget the relative bearing grease!
September 18th, 2009 at 4:53 pmRantingTommy says:
His next plan is to outlaw flying unicorns
After that, he will ban the use of state funds for blinker fluid, frequency grease, and snipe traps
Ok Jindal can ban funds for all of those except for those snipe traps. They are necessary cause them snipes are just too quick to catch by hand!
September 18th, 2009 at 5:22 pmI really like the symmetry of Bobby Jindal’s public corruption mission. First, he hands out money that came from a program he denounced, but tries to make it look like it’s coming from his offices. Now he’s stopping money from going out through a program that he’s more than willing to denounce, but neglects to mention that there isn’t any such money. Talk about being right on top of being the weasel*-of-the-day. I stand in awe. The shitbird is an inspiration and an exemplar for weasels everywhere.
*Note: No actual mustelidae mustela were insulted or injured in the production of this comment. The term ‘weasel’ was used strictly in the perjoritive sense.
September 18th, 2009 at 5:27 pmI have read one source that said that the ACORN staff in this plot were actually plants that applied to ACORN in order to be part of this made for You Tube presentation. Can anybody confirm this? If it is true then this group was working both sides of the street, creating their own “news” thus taking journalism to still another new and dispicable low.
September 18th, 2009 at 5:38 pm***
as president bobby has pledged to
negotiate a peace treaty with the hawaiians.
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i admire that kind of courage.
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September 18th, 2009 at 6:19 pmJoe Cantwell, you’re on a ROLL today!!
Bravo!
:)
:)
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September 18th, 2009 at 6:37 pmJindal blocks non-existent state funding for ACORN.
Can I say that I wouldn’t be surprised if Jindal thought Congress’ reprimand of Joe Wilson was a waste of time and taxpayer money because “Wilson already apologized and the President accepted”?
And geez is this guy a moron. I am *still* reeling over his statements that volcano watching is a complete waste of money. It’s nice to know he doesn’t think Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Hawaii, and California deserve Safety First. Particularly since at least 4 of those states have *active* volcanic emissions in the last 5 years.
September 18th, 2009 at 7:43 pmThe Rhodes Scholar rode in on a horse named Lies, Hypocrisy, and Dittohead while tilting at windmills
September 18th, 2009 at 7:53 pmThank heavens that Jindal is not a football coach; he would be having his players setting up blocks for non-existent opponents…
September 18th, 2009 at 7:59 pmJindal and Pawlenty are suffering for a common ailment in the Republican Party. It’s called altered reality; they are living in the twilight zone.
September 18th, 2009 at 8:29 pmShould we destroy an organization because a few people acted outside that organization’s rules, without a thorough investigation of the incident and if the actions were sanctioned higher up? The right sure didn’t act that way with the CIA torture, the Abu Ghraib abuses, Blackwater’s actions. It was AUTOMATICALLY “a few bad actors” rather than the organization as a whole –- no investigation needed, thank you very much. But with ACORN, it’s “an evil organization” at the core. — PatrioticLiberalChristian
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I hear ya, PLC — but unfortunately, I think you know as well as I do why the Republicans were so willing to minimize the abuses at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere by the military and its contractors yet so eager to crucify ACORN in its entirety over the actions of a few individuals. It has nowhere nearly as much to do with the safety of our nation as it does with politics. The fact is that historically and traditionally, the military and its contractors support and/or contribute to the Republican Party — and Republicans know that it’s not only discourteous and ungrateful to bite the hand which helps feed you, the people whose hands you’ve bitten usually don’t take it well. They have no such restrictions or reservations when it comes to ACORN, since ACORN has historically been an advocate for people who tend to vote Democrat — which, let’s face it, is enough to make them the enemy as far as Republicans are concerned. Since ACORN technically isn’t part of the federal government in the way that the CIA and the military are, there’s less reason for concern that an investigation into their affairs could end up implicating high-ranking governmental officials. Even if they can, the right wing would certainly have no objection if officials from the Obama administration were implicated whereas they adamantly refused to even consider the possibility of Bush administration involvement in what happened at Abu Ghraib and attempted at every turn to excuse and justify it. Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt!
Not only that, but if the words which they frequently choose to use in reference to these people is any indication, many of today’s Republicans and their supporters are Social Darwinists who apparently regard the population which ACORN serves — minorities and the economically disadvantaged — with little more than contempt. This is evident from the fact that some of them have voiced objection to virtually any and all governmentally-funded programs which serve this population.
September 18th, 2009 at 10:12 pmIt’s not like ACORN workers haven’t been convicted of criminal activity before. Besides, they claimed that government money is only a small part of their funding anyway, so it shouldn’t be a big problem.
September 18th, 2009 at 10:47 pmJindal just wants to make it clear that his state won’t be financing child prostitution.
Note to employees of progressive organizations: When some moron in a leopard-print jacket and gold-lame shoes comes into your office and asks how to set up a prostitution ring, as much as you may be tempted, DON’T SNARK THEM!
They’ll show it on Faux Noise as if it were a real issue and the appeasers to the rightie wackjobs will throw you under the bus.
September 18th, 2009 at 11:54 pmTim Pawlenty got the same memo from GOP central command.
He issued the same “order”.
And then 2 hours later TPaw’s own government agencies reported that ACORN hadn’t had a state contract since 2008.
Ooopsie!
September 19th, 2009 at 12:35 amMaybe not finance child prostitution. But Jindal’s state does have a Senator who likes to be diapered by prostitutes.
57.jwmuiyaai says:
September 19th, 2009 at 4:01 amJindal just wants to make it clear that his state won’t be financing child prostitution.
Americans can do anything. They can even stop funding to something that isn’t funded in the first place.
September 19th, 2009 at 8:10 amGovernor Howdy Doody is a frickin joke.
September 19th, 2009 at 10:37 amIf one believes that, P.T. Barnum was right: there’s a sucker born every minute.
Let’s do something out of the ordinary, and look at this rationally: ACORN National’s address is 1024 Elysian Fields Ave. New Orleans, LA 70117. That’s the national HQs which submits 501c3 filings to the IRS.
It’s also the same address of the local 100 chapter of the SEIU. Not that there’s any connection, or anything (*wink, wink).
If ACORN Nat’l HQ is located in La., it might stand to reason that this community organization – DEEPLY involved in politics – just might have state gub’mint connections and contracts.
This is simply pre-emptive action. Those possible connections and contracts may prove to be an embarrassment to Louisiana’s high profile republican governor.
Not that he would be raked over the coals & reamed a new one by snickering liberals, if such connections or money came to light.
Go back to your bongs, denizens.
September 19th, 2009 at 10:52 amRepublicans are to facts as water is to a duck’s back.
September 19th, 2009 at 11:37 am@ 63. locomotivebreath1901 says: Let’s do something out of the ordinary, and look at this rationally: ACORN National’s address is 1024 Elysian Fields Ave. New Orleans, LA 70117.
It’s also the same address of the local 100 chapter of the SEIU. Not that there’s any connection, or anything (*wink, wink).
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Go back to your bongs, denizens. September 19th, 2009 at 10:52 am
I just loves me sume rational, LOCO, so I fact checked you, and all I have to say is, so what?
I looked on ACORNs web page and found the following statement;
“ACORN is a non-profit, non-partisan social justice organization with national headquarters in New York, New Orleans and Washington, D.C.”
So, why did you leave out the other national office addresses. And what does SEIU have to do with this? I wouldn’t be surprised if one organization or the other owns the building or has the lease on it, and either leases or sublets office space to the other. Might even be that SEIU owns/leases and provides space to ACORN National pro-bono. Did ACORN have a national office in NOLA before Katrina? And if they did, what’s your point? Anyway?
September 19th, 2009 at 1:35 pmCome on dude. 2 hours after the last post? If you can’t “man up” and post when the thread is active…then just go back to the Cheetos
September 19th, 2009 at 6:28 pmThese guys are really sharp! Don’t they know what’s going on in their own states? (LA & MN). Perhaps if they paid attention, they wouldn’t have lost so many congressional and senate seats. But of course, there is so much hate and racism to spread and so little time. They are bound to miss something.
September 19th, 2009 at 11:39 pmlocomotivebreath1901 says:
ACORN National’s address is 1024 Elysian Fields Ave. New Orleans, LA 70117. That’s the national HQs which submits 501c3 filings to the IRS.
It’s also the same address of the local 100 chapter of the SEIU. Not that there’s any connection, or anything (*wink, wink).
OK, if I were to grant that your claims are true, then – what’s your point? (*wink wink).
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Virtual Pebble says:
I looked on ACORNs web page and found the following statement;
“ACORN is a non-profit, non-partisan social justice organization with national headquarters in New York, New Orleans and Washington, D.C.”
So, why did you leave out the other national office addresses
I think that would be obvious: all wingnuts are crazy, evil liars who are trying to destroy everything that is good in the world.
September 20th, 2009 at 3:07 am@ 68. elBruce sez…
Hi, elBruce. Of course, I take that “all wingnuts are crazy, evil liars who are trying to destroy everything that is good in the world” as a given. I just wanted to see if the troll could pop a weasel for us, but no, the chase was not on with LOCO. He just stopped by to crap on the thread.
September 20th, 2009 at 3:56 pmHey Jindahl ya peanut brain do a little research before you start flapping your ignorant pie hole. Chill out brainiac, go for a nice expensive jet trip ya dunce.
September 20th, 2009 at 8:52 pmlocomotivebreath1901 says:
It is sad how pathetic brainwashed morons like you are. You have never had a thought in your life some rightwing screechmonkey didnt put in your head. You are stupid. You are a punk and a troll. Just STFU and stop embarassing yourself
September 21st, 2009 at 1:12 amThank you for your sharing.!
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:32 amACORN will still exist in some form in the future, its great that from this point on to the future, there will be no funding for this corrupt corporation. estetik ameliyatlar
September 24th, 2009 at 9:57 am