Help Shannon Spann

KSFO Talk Radio ^ | Lee Rodgers

[evolved_rage]

Shannon Spann is now trying to raise her own newborn child and Mike Spann's 2 daughters from a previous marriage. Mike's ex-wife died of cancer shortly after Mike was killed in Afghanistan. KSFO has been raising money to help her out.

[gubamyster]

Sean Hannity started the same type of fund about a week ago.

[evolved_rage]

Got a link???

[evolved_rage]

http://www.hannity.com/?do=home.page

[evolved_rage]

Oops

Hannity Shannon Spann Fund

Sean has set up a fund to help Shannon Spann. If you would like to contribute, please make out your check or money order to Shannon Spann (please do not send cash) and mail to:

The Shannon Spann Fund
c/o The Sean Hannity Show
2 Penn Plaza
17th floor
NY NY 10121

[csmusaret]

He didn't have life insurance?

[Semper911]

Thanks for putting this up. Mrs. Spann is a true conservative, and full of class. She was recently interviewed by Hannity, and he said he was mad that there was not much pension or death benefit for her from the government. She replied as only a true conservatave would: that it is not the government's responsibility to take care of her.

Hannity kept insisting that the government should have done something, and Mrs. Spann stood her conservative ground. I swear she made Sean sound like a liberal.

Write her a check, FReepers. I'm in for a hundred. Who's with me?

[Semper911]

Hey -- let's put freerepublic.com on the memo line of our checks. Maybe Mrs. Spann will become a FReeper.

[evolved_rage]

I wish I had more details. I heard the discussion on KSFO this morning and I decided to post it. Apparently Sean Hannity feels the same way and has been raising money too. I'm not sure of how well the CIA takes care of their own, but there appears to be issues.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Write her a check, FReepers. I'm in for a hundred. Who's with me?

Right there with ya bro. Best hundred I ever spent.

[csmusaret]

If I'm not mistaken, she is still employed by the CIA.

[VOA]

He didn't have life insurance?

I'm just a civilian, but I did hear a factoid on talk radio (The Hugh Hewitt Show)
sometime in the last few months about the "death benefit", e.g., the amount paid
out if a US military person dies in a combat zone.

IIRC, it was a pretty pathetic $6,000 (or there's about).

I don't know if Spann, as a CIA operative would have even been covered by that.

But I do agree...you'd think there'd be enough insurance. But maybe it's not easy
to get high dollar coverage for folks in combat zones, whether if insured by government
or private companies.

[Catspaw]

The last I heard, Mrs. Spann was on leave from the CIA. No work, no money.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

This makes fund number four. Instead of duplicating services, these well meaning folks should just promote the ones that already exist. Some bureaucratic puke at the IRS is going to end up making her life a nightmare.

Mike Spann

[Semper911]

Check-writing BUMP for Mrs. Spann

[evolved_rage]

Is there a tax implication??? If she gets 2,000 checks for $100 each, and none of us file 1099s, then where is the paper trail. Pardon the analogy, but its like tips to a waitress. Companies can give $25 gifts to employees and not report it as income. Any tax experts out there???

[evolved_rage]

Please Pardon the waitress analogy!!!

[Righty1]

Gov life insurance is more like SSI plus burial.

[RaceBannon]

In 81, the death benefit was $10,000. Her husband was an employee of the CIA, and they were married, I hope he left her more than just $10K.

Bump to help her more, though, she deserves it just as much as anyone who lost a loved one from this war.

[VOA]

In 81, the death benefit was $10,000. Her husband was an employee of the CIA, and they
were married, I hope he left her more than just $10K.

I hope that $10,000 figure is a low-ball in today's world. Thanks for the info.

(However, my inexpert fear is that during eight years of Clinton-Gore, some Democratic
sleight-of-hand might have actually reduced the dollar amount as part of engineering
"the peace dividend".)