Gus Bilirakis Takes Aim at ACORN

On Wednesday, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis launched his latest salvo at ACORN when he announced that he had sent a letter last week to W. Craig Fugate of FEMA demanding to know why the group was sending money to ACORN through a grant program.

Bilirakis pointed to a report from the Department of Homeland Security office of inspector general that showed ACORN was awarded more than $450,000 through a fire prevention and safety grant by FEMA back in FY 2007. Bilirakis maintained that ACORN had no such expertise.

ACORN has demonstrated it is not worthy of the publics trust and as I have repeatedly stated, the Department of Homeland Security should not have provided funding to this corrupt enterprise, said Bilirakis.

Scarce Homeland Security resources should only be provided to reputable organizations that will strengthen our nations preparedness, not wasted on those that wont, added Bilirakis.