Federal Fence
Posted on 07/19/2006 7:30:46 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
A growing number of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leaders and volunteers are questioning the whereabouts of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars in donations collected in the past 15 months, challenging the organization's leadership over financial accountability.
Many of the group's most active members say they have no idea how much money has been collected as part of its effort to stop illegal entry -- primarily along the U.S.-Mexico border, what it has been spent on or why it has been funneled through a Virginia-based charity headed by conservative Alan Keyes.
Several of the group's top lieutenants have either quit or are threatening to do so, saying requests to Minuteman President Chris Simcox for a financial accounting have been ignored....."
"..... The Minuteman organization has not made any financial statements or fundraising records public since its April 2005 creation. It also has sought and received extensions of its federal reporting requirements and has not given the Minuteman leadership, its volunteers or donors any official accounting. A financial statement promised to The Times by Mr. Simcox for May was never delivered....."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I'm glad to see that both FReepers and the media are starting to dig dirt on Keyes. The guy is a dangerous nut. His last political campaign was such a disaster that his far left opponent was freed up to stop campaigning for himself and run around the country raising money for other Democrat candidates, and still beat Keyes by a massive margin.
Meanwhile carpet-bagging Keyes kept "campaigning", sounding more and more like the gay-obsessed Fred Phelps every day, while his adult daughter ran a sideshow coming out to the national media as a lesbian. Keyes' brilliant analysis of gay issues included the gem where he explained that gays shouldn't be allowed to adopt children because they wouldn't know who their biological parents were, and thus might inadvertently end up committing incest when they grew up. He was apparently too busy with his tortured fantasies about gays and incest to remember that most children adopted by married heterosexual couples also don't know who their biological parents are.
Interesting analysis.
Obama was mainly "freed up to raise money for Dems" because people like you were doing all their work for them. They hardly had to raise a finger.
Fully funded to continue to bring public focus on the border problem...which they've done brilliantly without much in the way of resources.
But you knew that, 'Tex"
So it is not to build fences then.
PT Barnum Bump
As has been explained to you many times, it is the responsibility of our elected officials, those who have sworn an oath to do so, to protect the border.
Everyone knows how well they're doing at that.
You'd think they could find a couple billion in the trillions they collect from the American people every year to do their primary sworn task.
Stop embarrassing yourself with such idiotic comparisons.
I see. So Simcox is just collecting funds for a fence he doesn't intend to build.
No.
No sane person could extrapolate that from what I said.
Where's the fence EV?
I guess you're not aware that the Minutemen use the same fundraisers as Bush, the RNC, Heritage, the NRA, etc.
Do try and get up to speed.
Still in George Bush's "virtual" imagination?
Do I need to post the list again?
I think you should. Just for "Petronski".
Damn he has a list and isn't afraid to use it. Duck everyone!
Well, I guess you really don't read the posts that don't agree with your destructive agenda.
I posted the news upthread that the Minutemen had just received approval from the county.
It's funny how you're willing to wait forever for the fence GW promised, but you won't wait five minutes for the Minuteman demonstration version.
Courtesy of Minuteman-inspired political pressure.
Where's the rest of the fence, "Tex"?
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