Posted on 10/27/2011 7:51:13 AM PDT by bkopto
Organizers of Occupy Portland say they fear as much as $20,000 donated to the group through a PayPal account has disappeared.
They also say the group's finance committee has hijacked the demonstration's Internet domain name and filed for incorporation against the wishes of the group's decision-making body.
The demonstrator who filed the papers with the state said Wednesday she did so to protect the protest, and she has received death threats as a result.
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LeDoux said Occupy Portland's organizers believe that "between $10,000 and $20,000" has disappeared from the protest's control. LeDoux said a finance committee member linked his PayPal account to occupypdx.org for donations.
LeDoux said the General Assembly had repeatedly asked the finance committee, of eight to 10 members, to provide an accounting of the money coming it, but the finance committee never did so.
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Just more proof that socialism is a failure
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Very good point!!!
>> ...the group’s finance committee has hijacked the demonstration’s Internet domain name and filed for incorporation against the wishes of the group’s decision-making body.
ROFL! A new eeevil corporation is born!
I swear, with these clowns, the jokes practically write themselves.
So, occupiers...how's that anarchy thing working out for you? ;-/
“LeDoux said the General Assembly had repeatedly asked the finance committee, of eight to 10 members, to provide an accounting of the money coming it, but the finance committee never did so.”
Can someone tell me why media outlets keep referring to these “committees” and “assemblies” like they are some sore of official part of some legitimate government.
Don't worry, they'll form a Committee for Public Safety and sort this out old school.
too bad they didn’t use a bank to safeguard their funds :)
I'd say that if they aren't even sure of the exact number of people on the finance committee, then asking the finance committee to actually account for the money is a bit hypocritical.
It makes me feel better all over than anyplace else.
Unexpected redistribution.
Excellent.
Pretty clear what happened here:
ACORN agents working behind the scenes correctly analysed that OCP was at its peak and wearing out it welcome...
...and transferred out the money to undisclosed accounts while they were ahead.
Becha you’ll see similar reports out of other locales as has already been discovered back east.
ACORN is behind all this...
=8-)
One commenter there mentions a “trench latrine”. In a city park? The city government is REALLY nuts.
Commies gone wild!
Hope and Change!
Liberals are thieves. Any time they get involved money and property gets stolen.
Down twinkles to the Flea Baggers!
They would have paid taxes on this income, but....
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