Despite what the left-wing machine’s media apologists have claimed, the state of Illinois does have official relationships with scandal-plagued ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). A 2008 report from the Illinois Housing Development Authority showed that ACORN’s housing subsidiary received a $100,000 grant from the agency to build its Predatory Lending Database Program. Somehow, this grant just happens to not appear in the Illinois Comptroller’s database. We need a real, serious ACORN investigation here in Illinois immediately.

Demand Real Campaign Finance Reform in Illinois Now! 

Illinois' legislative leaders and Governor Quinn have failed to take the full and necessary steps to put an end to the corrupt pay-to-play culture that permeates our great state. 

The good news is that the House voted to de-fund ACORN today. Despite the now overwhelming evidence that ACORN is a corrupt organization however, the vote was far from unanimous.

In fact, 75 Democrats outright opposed de-funding ACORN, along with two Democrats who upheld the great Obama tradition of spinelessly voting “present.” Six Democrats and five Republicans did not vote.

Democrats who voted to keep funding ACORN:

Baldwin D WI No
Becerra D CA No
Brady (PA) D PA No
Brown, Corrine D FL No

by Phil Kerpen

AFP just released a study detailing the special interest influence used to grease H.R. 2454’s passage through the U.S. House. The policy paper examines how campaign contributions, pork-barrel projects and free carbon emission allowances were all used to buy the votes of hesitant representatives. The paper also looks at how Wall Street trading houses, electricity producers and the Left’s political allies all stand to benefit from the Waxman-Markey energy tax bill.