Washington Times

To add to the list of outrageous earmarks in Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget, it appears left-wing activist groups including ACORN, the embezzlement-prone, voter-registration-fraud-plagued community organizing group, are eligible to receive up to $3.99 billion in taxpayer-backed slush money.

The funds would come indirectly from the Community Development Block Grant, one of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s longest-running programs. The grant money goes to state and local governments. ACORN and other groups can apply for part of it directly from a local municipality in which an arm of their group is active.

“In that sense, ACORN gets lots of money from the CDBG program–but it is nearly impossible to track it because HUD doesn’t track all the money” after it has gone to local and state governments, said Matthew Vadum, a senior editor at Capital Research Center. ”Nobody knows how much ACORN, which has hundreds of different affiliates, has actually received over the years in CDBG funding.”…

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