Seven "Nutty" Senators Named Porkers of the Month

The Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) in an rare move opted to pick not one but seven U.S. Senators for Proker of the Month. The have labeled them the "nutty senators for being the only Senators to vote on September 14 to continue sending tax dollars for housing and community development programs to ACORN [the Association of Community Organizations for Reform].

The seven senators are Roland Burris (D-IL), Robert Casey (D-PA), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

The 83-7 vote to cut off funding for the group in the fiscal year 2010 Department of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act came on the heels of the release of explosive video footage of ACORN’s employees in Baltimore, Md., Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, N.Y., and San Bernardino, Calif. giving questionable legal and tax advice to filmmaker James O'Keefe and a female friend posing as a pimp and a prostitute. ACORN’s employees gave guidance on how to shelter income illegally, mislead the Internal Revenue Service, and obfuscate the ages and immigration status of underage girls who were going to be used as prostitutes in a make-believe brothel. All of the videos can be viewed at BigGovernment.com.

CAGW President Tom Schatz said, "“Cutting off funds to ACORN should have been the easiest vote of the year, yet these senators could not bring themselves to do it." For voting to keep the spigot open to this seedy group in the face of pervasive unethical, if not outright crooked, behavior and trying to enable ACORN to fund its dysfunctional deeds with the taxes of hard-working Americans, CAGW names these seven senators its September Porkers of the Month. Read more about the Porker of the Month

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