U.S. House votes to defund ACORN, Bennie Thompson votes “No”

Accord­ing to Boston.com, The United State House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives voted “Yes” 345–75 to defund ACORN, the com­mu­nity advo­cacy group which is being inves­ti­gated by twenty states for voter reg­is­tra­tion fraud and video­tapes allegedly show­ing employ­ees advis­ing con­ser­v­a­tive activists pos­ing as a pros­ti­tute and pimp how to break the law.

Among the “No” votes?  Mississippi’s Sec­ond Dis­trict Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Ben­nie Thomp­son.  He’s the only Mis­sis­sippi Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to vote “No”.  Hmm…I won­der what that means?  If you’re from Thompson’s Dis­trict, go here and let him know that you’re dis­gusted by his vote.  Who could sup­port an orga­ni­za­tion that seems to not have any prob­lem with com­mit­ting tax fraud, voter reg­is­tra­tion fraud, tax eva­sion, etc.?

Of course, if you look at his con­stituency, it actu­ally makes sense why he is sup­port­ing this cor­rupt orga­ni­za­tion.  He rep­re­sents the Mis­sis­sippi Delta, an area that went heav­ily for Barack Obama in the 2008 elec­tion.  The area is mostly rural, with a high African-American pop­u­la­tion.  There’s other poten­tial rea­sons for his sup­port of ACORN, but I’ll not name those for fear of being labeled as some­thing I am not.

I am sim­ply appalled by Rep. Thompson’s vote.  He is basi­cally refus­ing to come to terms with the fact that the orga­ni­za­tion is rife with cor­rup­tion and needs to be inves­ti­gated and all funds cut off while the inves­ti­ga­tion is going on.  By the way, he also voted FOR the TARP Bill, the CHIP Bill, and the Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act.  So, I guess he’s used to squan­der­ing tax­pay­ers’ money.

I call for the peo­ple of the State of Mis­sis­sippi to protest his vote, and to protest his re-election should he choose to run again in 2010.  Since I am not in his dis­trict, I can’t vote for him.  But those of you in the Delta that are dis­gusted with him can.

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