Posted on 07/24/2006 10:16:33 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
As supporters of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, we were disheartened to read Jerry Seper's front-page article Thursday about questions and criticisms of President Chris Simcox's management of the organization. According to the article, the volunteer group has not made any financial statements or fundraising records public since April 2005 -- circumstances that have strained relations between Mr. Simcox and several of his top employees, some of whom have resigned in protest.
Mr. Simcox must resolve these problems quickly. Failure to do so would only encourage the organization's critics -- who have made no secret of their desire to see the Minuteman volunteers arrested for vigilantism. But more importantly, according to Mr. Simcox's estimate, Americans have donated $1.6 million to the corps because they believe in their mission to secure the southern border. In return, the least they should expect is transparency and the assurance that their donations went to help the volunteers in the field. But the truth is that no one except Mr. Simcox knows how much money has been donated and what it has been used for.
So far, Mr. Simcox has been unable to come up with a good explanation -- at least one that can be independently verified. And while he insists the money went to help field operations, workers at these locations tell a different story. For instance, Vern Kilburn, who resigned earlier this year as director of operations for the organization's northern Texas sector, told The Washington Times that only two checks for $1,000 came from Minuteman headquarters in October and that other directors across the country "are having similar problems." Some volunteers said that money promised by Mr. Simcox for food and supplies never arrived. "An awful lot of equipment I saw was donated," said Mike Gaddy,...."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Those are HIS words. Damn.
Yes I know and he is using that lie to bilk another $455 million more then he originally was asking for
My GOD I didn't read it right, he says his cattle fence has cost 300k per MILE. This guy has dug his own grave.
Let me say this as to conservative donating to groups. I am now after all this a firm believer in this site
http://www.guidestar.org
I am never going to donate to another one of this groups till I take the time to look at their 990 irs form and see where the money is going.
I think now if I going to start donating directly to the RNC, or for Guns the NRA for instance, or just directly to the canidiate. There are good organizations out there but now I know the warning signs on the bad ones
The photo at the link above is what they built. It looks like they started to do some Israeli type fence with the tall polls, but backed off to just the cattle fence. In no case do they have ten miles of ANY fence right now, let alone the full Israeli fence.
I knew he was nuts but this is beyond that.
He is now reduced to wildly blowing smoke in order to cover up. I can't believe he would say this in public.
Don't shoot the messenger.
And he keeps digging more and more every day
Just kidding, but am I the only one that saw a resemblence between him and Ted Maher?
bttt
That article was from the 19th of this month. If he isn't given the heave ho from the other Minutemen leaders then they are as complicit in this as he is.
From what I've read of there are different leader speaking up ... but now are former leaders because Sincox is giving them the ax
These others are in with him and will excuse him or say he was misquoted or whatever. If he did say that quote, he lied.
Oh it gets better. Go to post 22 and click on the photo of the day. look at tthe bottom picture. See those tiny American flags there.
Now go here
http://www.borderflags.com/index.html
then go here and see is collecting the money for this additional scam
http://www.borderflags.com/orderform.htm
sorry that was post 27
Geez ... $10 for a flag ???
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