{"id":1813,"date":"2010-04-22T15:43:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2010-04-22T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:43:17","slug":"acorn_funding_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"ACORN Funding Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/republicans.oversight.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=663%3Aissa-applauds-appeals-court-decision-to-temporarily-reinstate-acorn-funding-ban&amp;catid=27%3Alatest-news&amp;Itemid=1\">Republican Committee On Oversight And Government Reform<\/a>&nbsp;website yesterday,&nbsp;<font size=\"2\"> the U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit&nbsp;decided to stay the December 2009 injunction by Clinton-appointed Judge Nina Gershon that the Congressional funding ban on the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) was unconstitutional.&nbsp; Until the U. S. Court of Appeals further reviews the case, the ban will be in effect, and ACORN will not receive taxpayer dollars.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Judiciary Committee, released a statement yesterday that applauded the action that restored the ban on funding for ACORN.&nbsp; The funding was denied due to criminal conduct and wasteful spending on the part of the organization.&nbsp; Representative Issa pointed out that Congress does have the right to deny federal funds to an organization.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how all of this shakes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Republican Committee On Oversight And Government Reform&nbsp;website yesterday,&nbsp; the U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit&nbsp;decided to stay the December 2009 injunction by Clinton-appointed Judge Nina Gershon that the Congressional funding ban on the Association of Community Organizers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1813\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}