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SPLC Implodes: President And Legal Director Resign Amid Sexual Misconduct Scandal
The Burning Platform ^ | 3-23-2019

Posted on 03/23/2019 10:09:29 AM PDT by blam

The Southern Poverty Law Center – the “vicious left-wing attack dog” used by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Amazon to identify “hate groups” – is unraveling.

A week after co-founder Morris Dees was ousted over sexual misconduct claims – with two dozen employees signing a letter of concern over “allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism,” the head of the SPLC, Richard Cohen, as well as the organization’s legal director, Rhonda Brownstein, resigned on Friday.

Cohen had been with the organization 33 years and was one of its most prominent figures.

At 5:03 p.m. Friday, Cohen sent a message to staff, with the subject line “Stepping Down,” announcing that he, too, would be leaving the organization that he and Dees had turned into a research and fundraising juggernaut.

“Whatever problems exist at the SPLC happened on my watch, so I take responsibility for them,” Cohen wrote, while asking the staff to avoid jumping to conclusions before the board completes an internal review of the Montgomery, Ala., organization’s work culture. –LA Times

Earlier this week, the SPLC board of directors appointed Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff, Tina Tchen – who, in an unrelated matter, unsuccessfully tried to pull strings and have the Jussie Smollett case transferred from the Chicago PD to the FBI. Tchen is heading up the inquiry into the sexual misconduct claims.

Also out on Friday was Rhonda Brownstein – who had worked with the organization for nearly three decades, according to the Montgomery Advertiser‘s Melissa Brown.

Inside the SPLC “Scam”

As the Washington Examiner‘s Beckett Adams writes, the Southern Poverty Law Center is a “scam,” which has taken ” no care whatsoever for the reputational and personal harm it causes by lumping Christians...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hategroup; itsthejews; liberals; metoo; morrisdees; radicalleft; rhondabrownstein; richardcohen; scam; splc
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“[I]t was hard, for many of us, not to feel like we’d become pawns in what was, in many respects, a highly profitable scam,” added Moser."
1 posted on 03/23/2019 10:09:29 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Oh look, a bunch of leftist scum pretending to be good guys.

How utterly common.


2 posted on 03/23/2019 10:10:33 AM PDT by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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To: blam

Gorgeous building right next door to the White House of the Confederacy, irony of ironies. This place has been a scam for 35 years.


3 posted on 03/23/2019 10:12:39 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: blam

Thanks for more good news.

May more of these vile sob’s resign, go broke with lawsuits and face reality for the rest of their miserable lives.


4 posted on 03/23/2019 10:12:48 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (I guess with John McCain & Benedict Arnold being dead, Faux News had to settle for Ryan!!!!)
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To: blam

Winning!!!


5 posted on 03/23/2019 10:13:52 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: blam

Another scam against the American people busted. Awesome.


6 posted on 03/23/2019 10:18:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: blam

I don’t think they care. So much money has flowed into the “retirement fund” in the Camans that those snakes are set for life.


7 posted on 03/23/2019 10:18:32 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: blam

SPLC labels SPLC a hate organization?


8 posted on 03/23/2019 10:21:16 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: blam

Karma is really making the rounds today.


9 posted on 03/23/2019 10:22:46 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: blam

Now, designate SPLC as a hate group.


10 posted on 03/23/2019 10:25:50 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: blam

this falls under the heading....... losing


11 posted on 03/23/2019 10:26:28 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: blam

Soviet Pimps Lying Continually


12 posted on 03/23/2019 10:28:15 AM PDT by all the best (You)
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To: Grampa Dave

“May more of these vile sob’s resign, go broke with lawsuits and face reality for the rest of their miserable lives.”

The icing on the cake would be if the SPLC went broke defending the sexual harassment lawsuits brought by their own employees. I mean after all, “it’s really someone else’s money” right?


13 posted on 03/23/2019 10:32:46 AM PDT by vette6387 (Fire Mueller)
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The icing on the cake would be if the SPLC went broke defending the sexual harassment lawsuits brought by their own employees. I mean after all, “it’s really someone else’s money” right?

It would be great if and when that happened.


14 posted on 03/23/2019 10:36:20 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (I guess with John McCain & Benedict Arnold being dead, Faux News had to settle for Ryan!!!!)
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To: bert
this falls under the heading....... losing
Only in your mind.

"Losers" would be more appropriate...Maybe you included?

15 posted on 03/23/2019 10:36:23 AM PDT by lewislynn
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To: miss marmelstein

“This place has been a scam for 35 years.”

SPLC, like “Springtime for Hitler”, without the messy details.


16 posted on 03/23/2019 10:36:31 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: lewislynn

I’ll accept losers.

Why do you support such a despicable organization?


17 posted on 03/23/2019 10:39:27 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: blam

"You lahk dem collard greens, donchya, BOAH..?!"

18 posted on 03/23/2019 10:42:28 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: bankwalker

Winning!


To God be the Glory! Keep praying for truth and justice and the unveiling of evil!


19 posted on 03/23/2019 10:49:17 AM PDT by Maudeen (JESUS . . .The United States of America's ONLY Hope)
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To: blam

I thought it was the audit that brought about his firing.


20 posted on 03/23/2019 10:59:42 AM PDT by Brilliant
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