Posted on 04/25/2018 7:30:40 AM PDT by rktman
If its balance sheet is any indication, Donald Trump’s presidency has been very good for the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC's already impressive endowment grew a staggering 35 percent in fiscal year 2017 to more than $432 million. Including operating funds, total assets topped $477 million as of October 31, 2017. Total revenues and gains in fiscal 2017 exceeded $180 million, more than triple the organization's expenses for the year, of just under $60 million.
The SPLC has long been considered a fundraising powerhouse, but 2017's take was mind boggling by any standard. Donations were up 164 percent over 2016: The group took in $132 million between November 2016 and October 2017, compared with $50 million in the preceding 12 months.
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Politics, and connections to government/politicians, is how you grow rich in America these days.
Just like in Russia.
What would it take for the left to discover its older roots and decry the SPLC as poverty mongers who sell out those they claim to help?
SPLC is a hedge fund that uses extremist politics as a marketing and political cover.
kind of like America’s top universities
Sickening
And to think some here used to rely on the SPLC to bolster their position as they race baited
Perhaps some will recall that after events in Charlottesville there was a large spike in donations to SPLC and ADL. Some of the high profile donors were laying out million dollar donations
Well, even blind squirrels even get acorns sometimes.
If there wasn’t some tiny core of plausibility in the middle of SPLC protests, they soon would go nowhere.
Isn’t this the “rich” that the left so much loves to hate?
Well, how about it, hypocrites?
Money Laundering!
But this is treasure for a CAUSE, dude
I’m convinced the SPLC is a money laundering operation. Nobody sits on that kind of cash just to sit on it.
Well, some do. One might expect them to be a charity too. But nope.
“Perhaps some will recall that after events in Charlottesville there was a large spike in donations to SPLC and ADL. Some of the high profile donors were laying out million dollar donations”
The SPLC never lets a tragedy go to waste. Before the bodies got cold SPLC was pressuring corporations on their target list. Give, or else.
They gave. And once the protection payments began, they never stop without some kind of intervention.
HATE really pays off!
I disagree
Just because they are well funded doesn’t mean they have something right somewhere
They are emblematic of our problem
A problem destroying us
Yup. Ask the “just-us” brothers.
SPLC: Socialists Plainly Love Cash
Here is a list of the names of the men leading the alt right at Charlottesville:
Jason Kessler, Richard Spencer, Mike Peinovich, Michael Hill, Matthew Heimbach, David Duke, Augustus Invictus, Pax Dickerson, Chris Cantwell, Andrew Anglin, Nathan Damigo, Robert Ray, Elliot Kline, Michael Tubbs, Jeff Scheop.
That was why Hillary wanted Trump for her opponent. And that is why the media gave him all that free media. She didn't want Rubio.
She got the twice-divorced Romeo that no conservative Republican would ever vote for.
HA!
I bet that obama sent taxpayer money to that and many other hate groups.
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