Posted on 02/15/2010 5:23:50 PM PST by Altura Ct.
When the Congressional Black Caucus wanted to pay off the mortgage on its foundation’s stately 1930s redbrick headquarters on Embassy Row, it turned to a familiar roster of friends: corporate backers like Wal-Mart, AT&T, General Motors, Coca-Cola and Altria, the nation’s largest tobacco company.
...Most political groups in Washington would have been barred by law from accepting that kind of direct aid from corporations. But by taking advantage of political finance laws, the caucus has built a fund-raising juggernaut unlike anything else in town.
...From 2004 to 2008, the Congressional Black Caucus’s political and charitable wings took in at least $55 million in corporate and union contributions, according to an analysis by The New York Times, an impressive amount even by the standards of a Washington awash in cash. Only $1 million of that went to the caucus’s political action committee; the rest poured into the largely unregulated nonprofit network. (Data for 2009 is not available.)
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
A extortion powerhouse...
The Cogressional American Caucus was unavailable for comment.
The Congressional Black Caucus is a racist organization. Why does it exist? Why is a ‘’caucus’’ based solely on skin color have any legitimacy in The House of Representatives of The United States and what is the reason for it’s existence in the first place?
may he repent or rot slowly.
I guess he be rotting slowly,cos he is doing the lords work,doncha know?
Let us not forget his protege Al Sharpton and JJ jr more upstanding citizens.
“Historically, we’ve been known as the conscience of the Congress,...”
...they flatter themselves with talk like this...it comes from an attitude that because they are descended from slaves it automatically gives them moral authority....and they really believe that too.
In other words the Black caucus did the same thing Jesse Jackson did when his son got the Budweiser distributership,
They extorted the big names for the money.
If I didn’t know better I’d think that race was important in this country. Good thing whites aren’t racist. We may be stupid but we are not racist.
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ACORN get the federal money because democrats are in total power, and ACORN pays to elect democrats. The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise, of which ACORN is but one wing.
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