Allegations are made. Therefore, figures should be released immediately? Anyone can make an allegation. Why not get fully audited results before passing judgement?
Because then the anti-Minutemen wouldn't have anything to whine about.
It's current and former MCDC members who've been making the allegations, apparently. The entire article is instructive...for example, there's this:
In April, Mrs. Lewis and Ms. Hair declined to answer 17 written questions submitted by The Times concerning MCDC finances after several current and former Minutemen first raised questions about money coming into the organization. They also did not respond to a follow-up list of seven questions in June.MCDC has not released any financial or fundraising records since its April 2005 creation to either the public or its members. Disclosure statements promised to The Times by Mr. Simcox in October and later in April were never delivered. He since has accused critics of being racists, anti-Semites and "a small handful of disgruntled people who have been terminated."
Stonewalling, or the appearance thereof, rarely improves people's opinion of a person or group. It just makes it appear that there is something to hide.
Sounds to me as if, at most, they don't want people to know where the money is going, and at least, they have incompetent media relations people.
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