Could ACORN defunding bill strike military-industrial complex?
Overly-broad language used by lawmakers intending to pull government funding for community organizing group ACORN may have the unintended effect of forcing the government to also pull funds from much of the military-industrial complex, a Tuesday report revealed. “The congressional legislation intended to defund ACORN, passed with broad bipartisan support, is written so broadly that it applies to ‘any organization’ that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things,” wrote Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grimm. “In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops.” Mother Jones was quick to note that could mean any firm in the Project on Government Oversight’s contractor misconduct database could
