Posted on 01/27/2016 3:15:40 PM PST by Perdogg
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America founder Paul Rieckhoff tweeted Wednesday that he would decline any contributions that came from the event, which Trump has proposed in place of his attending Fox News' debate this week.
"If offered, @IAVA will decline donations from Trump's event. We need strong policies from candidates, not to be used for political stunts," he said.
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As a vet this is totally not the right thing to say. Because I would never donate a nickel to his organization now. I would rather find one that goes to the vets directly. What a damn fool.
Operation Truth was discussed here back in 2004.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196661/posts
“The money should go directly to the vets who apply for it, and to their families.”
Exactly.
Turn down the money, man
Your wounded vets can get along
Meanwhile, there are others who will benefit
COBOL2Java was responding to a post wherein that entire paragraph was already quoted. Maybe you could have checked that before taking him to task? The paragraph WAS finished.
The IAVA is small potatoes... Roughly 6 Mil. It’s probably not where The Donald would send the money anyway.
BTW, This joker is a staff columnist for the Huntington Post...
You are correct. That was my mis-step. I should have replied to Red Steel.
I do stand by the fact that his gif was funny though!
Getting harder and harder to tell Democrats from Cruz supporters...
I have no problem telling Democrats from Trump supporters. They are one in the same thing.
‘twas, ‘twas; ‘tis, ‘tis
As Adjutant of my local VFW post I always encourage those that are interested in helping vets to go to their local veterans organization and donate time or funds directly without going through some middle man at an organization that spends most of their donations for administrative and or salary costs.
https://www.vfw.org/oms/findpost.aspx
https://www.dav.org/membership/local-chapters/
In just eight years, IAVA has transformed itself from an upstart veterans organization to a lobbying heavyweight and media favorite. For many Americans not connected to the military, they’ve become the face not just of the current combat generation but of all veterans.
That infuriates their critics, who see IAVA as a small, unrepresentative sample of returning war heroes, a veterans group with an uncharacteristic liberal bent and a business model that emphasizes online communities over traditional outreach.
Its better not to donate to any of them rather than risk donating to groups like his or Wounded Warriors who waste money at the top end.
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40% administration costs for Wounded Warriors. Top honcho salary $500,000 plus.
Please do your research on this group and their founder and executive Paul Rieckhoff. He went to Amherst, worked on Wall Street. The group was very active fighting against Don’t Ask Don’t tell advocating for gays in the military. He was a supporter and worked for the election and re-election of Barack Obama.
Of course he and his group would be opposed to someone who actually would work to strengthen the military be that Trump or Cruz.
Need to go research the group. They are a liberal Democratic group. They will support any Democrat and oppose Cruz or Trump or any Republican. they were major proponents of opening the military to gays. The Executive Director supported Obama and worked for his election and re-election.
Rieckoff is a hardcore leftist. Check his past associations with Marxist protest united fronts re Iraq and Afghanistan war.
Also, he gets a paycheck out of his anti-Americanism.
hum only lists one employee. or are compensated as prt of program money?
REVENUE
Contributions
Contributions, Gifts & Grants $4,829,044
Federated Campaigns $193,579
Membership Dues $0
Fundraising Events $1,165,265
Related Organizations $0
Government Grants $0
Total Contributions $6,187,888
Program Service Revenue $0
Total Primary Revenue $6,187,888
Other Revenue $-143,841
TOTAL REVENUE $6,044,047
EXPENSES
Program Expenses $4,791,649
Administrative Expenses $635,289
Fundraising Expenses $697,054
TOTAL FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES $6,123,992
Payments to Affiliates $0
Excess (or Deficit) for the year $-79,945
Net Assets $619,264
Guy isn’t highly compensated which is good.
Compensation of Leaders (FYE 12/2013)
Compensation % of Expenses Paid to Title
$145,500 2.37% Paul Rieckhoff Executive Director
i thot afflect does the paralyzed vets which keeps 80%
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Charity Name & State Overall Score Overall Rating
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (NY) 84.48 3 stars
Paralyzed Veterans of America (DC) 29.25 0 stars
AMVETS National Service Foundation (MD) 90.01 4 stars
National Vietnam Veterans Foundation (FL) 24.60 0 stars
New England Paralyzed Veterans of America (MA) 76.86 2 stars
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