Posted on 02/08/2016 8:43:52 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The Daily Beast is reporting that a small New Hampshire-based veterans charity has turned down a six figure check from Donald Trump. Liberty House turned Trump's money away because they objected to it being given to them in a public setting: a campaign rally for Trump.
The Beast's Tim Mak has more:
On Friday, Liberty House executive director Keith Howard received a call from a Trump campaign staffer, who conveyed that Trump would like to publicly present them with a six-figure check at a Londonderry rally on Monday, right before the Granite State primary.
It's an enormous amount of money for a small charity. But Howard said he wouldn't do it - risking the entire, substantial donation on a point of principle.
Howard, a 57-year-old Army vet, objected to the use of veterans for political purposes. He doesn't believe that his charity - which clothes the homeless, feeds the needy, and provides housing to 10 formerly homeless vets - should be presented with money by a political candidate at a political rally.
"This is not directed at the Trump campaign," Howard said. "This is about any campaign."
Plus, Howard believed appearing at a political rally could jeopardize his group's nonprofit status - something a call to an expert in the state attorney general's office confirmed. And he found it strange that the call was coming from a Trump campaign staffer, rather than someone related to the foundation that raised money for veterans.
The money generated from Trump's Iowa rally, as the Federalist reported, went to Trump's personal foundation first instead of going directly to the charities themselves. The rally was set up by Trump as an alternative to the Iowa Fox News debate he skipped out on.
Read the whole story at the Daily Beast.
Yeah, it’s tainted money, can’t buy anything useful or needed with such poisonous money.
You can bet that Trump has his money in as many tax shelters as he and his accountants can find. If he is helping pay my retirement, its not because he wants to. But that goes for anyone with any sense, dont pay more taxes than required.
Isn’t that the point? Take the money and do good things with it.
You know darn well that the leader of this charity publicly accepts money from people. He doesn’t like Trump, so he is just busting his chops, because he thinks he can. There is no moral principle here, just politics.
Grade-A douche, who cares more about HIS politics than the well-being vets he is supposed to be helping.
If it’s his policy to only accept anonymous donations, then fine, but what is the chance of that being the case?
This is an interesting article, with more companies that wish to use “vets as props”:
http://www.mccnh.edu/news/item/1892-students-aim-for-holiday-finish-to-vets-home-project
“The students raised $20,000 to fund the project, receiving donations from individuals and businesses including Bruce Merges Control Technologies Inc. of Manchester, Damon Insulation of Bow, Design Day Mechanicals of New Ipswich, F.W. Webb of Manchester, Granite State Automation of Manchester, Granite State Plumbing & Heating LLC of Weare, Home Depot, Louis P. Cote Inc. of Goffstown, Lowes of Bedford and Pensotti Boilers of Brewer, Maine.
Food donations were provided by Hannaford’s Bicentennial Drive store in Hooksett, KC’s Rib Shack of Manchester, Nadeau’s Subs of Manchester, the Puritan Backroom of Manchester, Shorty’s Mexican Roadhouse of Hooksett and the Sal’s Pizza on South Willow Street in Manchester.
MCC has partnered with Liberty House since 2012, recently winning the President’s Community Partner Award from Campus Compact for NH.”
All these companies should be excoriated for refusing to make “anonymous donations” and cynically using vets for “tax deductions”.
That’s how you like it, right?
These companies are not doing it for personal and political gain. They are not using Vets as political pawns. There is a difference but you are too damned stupid to understand.
“These companies are not doing it for personal and political gain. They are not using Vets as political pawns. There is a difference but you are too damned stupid to understand.”
I may be an idiot, but so are you.
Ok, so what kind of pawns are these companies using the Vets for in the link I sent, then? Or are you dumb enough to think that they did this without any expectation of getting credit, for their donations?
It’s a two way street. A charity has to show itself worthy, so a donor can get something out of it too.
That’s the way it works.
You are just pissed that Trump tried to give this worthy charity money because you hate Trump. You think that if he was pure of heart he would do it anonymously.
I have news for you: Nobody is pure of heart. Charity gets and the donors get something out of it too.
The charity leader would gladly (I suspect) have accepted money from Bernie Sanders, perhaps even Hillary. He’s just a lefty, and he despises Trump because he is a successful man. Envy is not a good reason to reject a 100k check for a shoe-string charity.
Envy is not a good reason for you to agree with him.
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