U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D Florida, voted against the measure to defund Acorn because he considered it an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
A bill of attainder, forbidden in Article I, Section IX of the constitution, is a legislative act that imposes punishment on a specific person or group without a trial or hearing.
http://www.postonpolitics.com/2009/09/is-de-funding-acorn-an-unconstitutional-bill-of-attainder/
If the vote against Acorn is based on fraud by a group receiving federal funds, or promotion of or engagement in prostitution, then most of the large military contractors are up for being defunded on the same grounds.
Dyncorp, or certainly numerous of its employees in Bosnia, are widely considered guilty of not just counseling someone else on a prostituion scheme, but of running its own, a large one involving juveniles shipped in from out of country.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/010106sexslavescandal.htm
http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/06/dyncorp/index.html
And if fraud at Acorn is the main target, will it turn out that the bill to defund them will also apply to Halliburton/KBR and the other large contractors possibly guilty, excuse me, GUILTY of defrauding the US govt? That's guilty and paid large fines in many cases.
But Dyncorp, Lockheed, Halliburton/KBR, and on and on are still getting large, LARGE govt. contracts. Meanwhile Rrs in congress are out to save the republic by getting rid of a group who has actually done some good here and there. Further, the undercover sting pair went to other Acorn office, I can't find how many, but did not get the response they wanted. Those videos have not been posted.
I'm not saying Acorn doesn't need to clean house in a big way. I'm just a bit curious at the laser like focus on this one group. I wonder why that is . . . wait, could this be the Obama corollary of Monica Lewinsky/Paula Jones, a handy club for Rrs to beat up on him with? They wouldn’t stoop to something so transparent, would they?
Flaming liberal Rachel Maddow has done some good reporting on this although she’s not the only one talking about it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#33027963