Posted on 07/28/2006 3:05:06 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
The first thing a Minuteman has to learn is to keep his powder dry. The bigger the powder magazine, the bigger the risk of getting it all wet.
This is the lesson that Chris Simcox, the president of the volunteers on the border, who have almost single-handedly aroused the nation's conscience about the tide of illegal immigration, seems to have missed in basic training.
The "powder" is the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Americans have contributed to the Minutemen, who have been exceedingly helpful to the U.S. Border Patrol. The careful, rigorous reporting of Jerry Seper in The Washington Times reveals that the Minutemen management has not made its records of fundraising and finances public in more than a year, raising the hackles and suspicions of several top Simcox aides. Some of them have resigned, protesting the loose management of the money...."[snip]
"... All the more reason that Chris Simcox and his lieutenants must account for the money and explain what the Declaration Alliance, the grandly named political public-relations firm in Herndon, has done with the money it has collected and disbursed in the name of the Minutemen. The Declaration Alliance is the creation of Alan Keyes, the smooth-talking conservative activist and sometime pol, and is meant to provide mass mailings, public relations and "a fully accredited and independent audit." So far no one in the Minutemen management has said how much has been paid to the Declaration Alliance, and what the Minutemen got for the money...."
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
You may be right, but it seems to me an incredible amount of energy around here is going in to sink this guy.
If you cared anything about the Minutemen as a viable force then you would be asking the same questions. When this guy comes up dirty the entire effort will be damaged beyond repair.
Not a wise comment.
So you take from "leftest" sources and sources that want to stop him as gospel?
What the hell are you talking about? The Washington Times, Malkin, Jim Gichrist, American Border Patrol, the Texas Minutemen, John Gibson, Wes Pruden are NOT leftist sources.
It's only a bit of effort; not a lot at all. And the guy not only has a lousy track record ( he's a snake oil salesman ), but has 1) not done a single thing he has promised to do 2) delayed and delayed and delayed in answering to his own volunteers AND the IRS 3) has been caught in so many lies, that those who aren't blinkered, want answers.
Some of us around here really DO care about fraudsters making money from bilking people. We went after Larry Klayman, too, once it became obvious what a crook and a liar he is.
Please don't post emotionally; please post from knowledge.
Wow. I bear the guilt of what you define as my class. How very Stalinist of you.
Read "Darkness at Noon" and then read it again.
You're still a documented liar.
Wow, you're a liar again.
Simcox, recipient of at least a million dollars, is a volunteer exactly how?
Damn. You've lied again.
Perhaps this time Howie was only paid for the act, not the whole night, and thus perhaps he's gone already...
Isn't that how whores work?
Wes Pruden, editor in chief of the Washington Times...
Hey, Wes, we all heard your unsubstantiated charges, indirect and inferential as they may be, the first two times.
Whatsamatta, not enough MSM outlets pick up your hitpiece the first two times you trotted it out?
Bwahahahahaha.....what self-serving claptrap.
Sorry, Wesley. There was no substance the first two times...strike three. You're out.
"Tex", you're so far out in left field, you don't even know your way back to the dugout.
Yep, I'm just over flowing with time. You know us Government workers, we just sit at home and collect our pay checks.
Looks like your brain has retired also.
I wouldn't know, personally, but yes, I guess that's what whores do. LOL
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