Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was on with KTLK-FM's Chris Baker yesterday and informed us that Congress act to defund ACORN only goes til the end of October.  You can hear the interview here: http://www.ktlkfm.com/pages/acorn.html.

She has called for Governor Tim Pawlenty to appoint a special investigator to looking to the organization in Minnesota.  She says the Governor and her had a "good conversation" yesterday and he is conducting a review, the limit of his authority.  From there, the legislative auditor would then need to do a review of how the more than $100,000 of state money has been spent.

She then further said that Congress hasn't cut off ACORN funding like you think.  She says "Congress did a CYA move, they defunded ACORN just for the month of October."  (Click Here to read the Legislative Digest).  She adds that on November 1, "the spicket of federal tax money will open wide open again." 

To add insult to injury, she informed us that while ACORN didn't get federal funding in October, "They received a million dollar grant from Homeland Security for fire safety."  Click Here for the story.  What does ACORN have to do with fire safety?  In fact, "they received 80% of the money for fire safety that was supposed to go to Louisiana."