Any attempt to cut or limit funds to Acorn in isolation is nothing more than a political tool of the right. Any funding cuts to Acorn should come from an objective bipartisan bill to curb waste, fraud, and abuse by ALL government contractors. We find any member of the house or senate who voted to defund Acorn but who fail to vote for the "Against Corporations Organizing to Rip-off the Nation Act", or ACORN, corrupt and unworthy of reelection. The acorn act sponsored by Reps. Betty McCollum (Minn.), Raul Grijalva (Ariz.), David Obey (Wis.), Pete Stark (Calif.), Keith Ellison (Minn.), Lynn Woolsey (Calif.), Jim McDermott (Wash.) and Barbara Lee (Calif.) holds all private companies, nonprofits and other groups that have been convicted of defrauding the government accountable by cutting off funding to these groups. Failure to vote for the acorn act in the house, and to introduce and pass a similar bill in the senate indicates that politicians don't actually care about the integrity of government contractors. Failure to vote for the acorn act and to introduce such an act in the senate is, therefore, a litmus test for worthiness of office. Signatories of this petition will use this issue to determine whether they will vote for their incumbent senators and representatives.
Any attempt to cut or limit funds to Acorn in isolation is nothing more than a political tool of the right. Any funding cuts to Acorn should come from an objective bipartisan bill to curb waste, fraud, and abuse by ALL government contractors. We find any member of the house or senate who voted to defund Acorn but who fail to vote for the "Against Corporations Organizing to Rip-off the Nation Act", or ACORN, corrupt and unworthy of reelection. The acorn act sponsored by Reps. Betty McCollum (Minn.), Raul Grijalva (Ariz.), David Obey (Wis.), Pete Stark (Calif.), Keith Ellison (Minn.), Lynn Woolsey (Calif.), Jim McDermott (Wash.) and Barbara Lee (Calif.) holds all private companies, nonprofits and other groups that have been convicted of defrauding the government accountable by cutting off funding to these groups. Failure to vote for the acorn act in the house, and to introduce and pass a similar bill in the senate indicates that politicians don't actually care about the integrity of government contractors. Failure to vote for the acorn act and to introduce such an act in the senate is, therefore, a litmus test for worthiness of office. Signatories of this petition will use this issue to determine whether they will vote for their incumbent senators and representatives.
We signed the "Make all government contractors accountable." petition!
# 19:
11:24 pm PDT, Oct 29,Brian Sisley, North Carolina
# 17:
6:18 am PDT, Oct 21,Name not displayed, Virginia
# 16:
1:41 pm PDT, Oct 20,Kevin Silvey, Florida
# 15:
10:17 pm PDT, Oct 19,Jean Bremer, Illinois
# 14:
9:10 pm PDT, Oct 19,Pam Boland, Georgia
# 13:
3:41 pm PDT, Oct 19,Michael Eckert, Arizona
# 12:
10:04 am PDT, Oct 19,Sally Bishop, Florida
# 11:
10:45 am PDT, Oct 18,Bohemian Artist, Texas
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# 10:
6:26 am PDT, Oct 18,Name not displayed, Canada
Unfortunately throughout the years we have forgotten that we are actually the government and that we vote for who we want to represent us. The Government Officials we elect in are supposed to work for us not us working for them. In the last century we have seen nothing but complete corruptness. Greed. How dare they steal from everyone. If you steal from a job you are fired. In government you are patted on the back. Our whole government system around the world needs to change drastically. Unless we the people around the world unite, it will never happen. We have to start somewhere. We have our future generations to consider.
# 9:
5:10 am PDT, Oct 18,Kris Wirth, Idaho
Haliburton, Blackwater. Xe-Services, Dyna-Corp, Inter-Risk (or whomever they are now)....
# 8:
2:37 am PDT, Oct 18,Bill C, Germany
# 7:
2:19 am PDT, Oct 18,Steve Klein, Virginia
# 6:
6:33 pm PDT, Oct 17,Kyle S, New Jersey
# 5:
6:18 pm PDT, Oct 17,Rhonda Benz, Ohio
# 4:
1:31 pm PDT, Oct 17,Barbara Brown, Florida
Pretty much all Government officials are corrupt. Always have been and always will be...Someone is always making a profit off someone. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth!!!! And then the government wants us to believe they are doing a good thing for this country. What a Joke!!!! Lining everyone's pockets but the fellow American. How can these people sleep at night?????
# 3:
1:23 pm PDT, Oct 17,Deanna Ross, Arizona
We need the ACORN act. We need to hold corporations accountable for their corporate greed and deception, and Halliburton and KBR should be top of the list. Look at the Documentary DVD "Iraq for Sale" recommended to me by an Iraq veteran who said. " If you want to know what is really going on over here, watch this DVD. That's all I can say"
# 2:
10:16 am PDT, Oct 17,Dinda Evans, California
or have the gov build their own; tired of contractor rip offs and corruption
