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Gov. Pawlenty Orders Review Of State ACORN Ties.

But Kevin Whelan, a Minnesota-based ACORN official, said the move was meaningless because the nationwide advocacy group wasn't due to receive any state money.

"Because there isn't really any money to cut off it seems like it's motivated by politics or publicity," Whelan said.

He said the Minnesota chapter currently has three full-time employees and a low six-figure budget.

This is the Republicans Brightest Star acting like a Moron

list of names that Died on the 35w Bridge because we were cutting Budgets no matter what the cost

_Julia Blackhawk, 32, Savage.

_Richard Chit, 20, St. Anthony.

_Paul Eickstadt, 51, Mounds View.

_Sherry Engebretsen, 60, Shoreview.

_Peter Hausmann, 47, Rosemount.

_Patrick Holmes, 36, Mounds View.

_Greg Jolstad, 45, Mora.

_Vera Peck (Chit's mother), 50, St. Anthony.

_Christine Sacorafas, 45, White Bear Lake.

_Sadiya Sahal, 23, St. Paul.

_Hana Sahal (Sahal's daughter), 22 months, St. Paul.

_Scott Sathers, 29, Maple Grove.

_Artemio Trinidad-Mena, 29, Minneapolis.

Bachmann started spewing these assumptions in mid-June during an interview with Washington Times. She said ACORN "will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public.... This is very concerning." She went on to say she will tell the government only how many people live in her household because she is concerned that ACORN could misuse her data.

FactCheck calls this statement "flat wrong." ACORN is signed up as a partner with the U.S. Census Bureau, but there are about 30,000 other groups considered partners, and the census officials expect to have more than 100,000 partners by the end of the process. There were 140,000 partners in 2000.

the Obama Administration is putting the nation at risk. "I think it's fair to argue," said Cheney, "that we're not going to have the same safeguards we've had for the last eight years." as i recall we got attacked during the last 8 years

He's paying court cost with your Money.His entire case was dismissed "with prejudice," and Coleman was ordered to pay Franken's and the court's costs for the entire trial as well as Franken's costs and attorneys fees for three days' delay caused by Coleman attorneys' errors.

President Bush relegated to the role of virtual onlooker — as events played out at the dawn of a new Democratic era in government.

President Bush relegated to the role of virtual onlooker — as events played out at the dawn of a new Democratic era in government.