[pollyannaish]

I think this thread has become far too personal, Ohio and that is what is driving all of us to distraction. We are all licking our wounds and feeling frustrated.

We've got to let everyone out of their respective corners and work together. This is NOT about personalities, Dees, Simcox, ABC, whomever.

It simply about transparency. We are asking for financial transparency. If we can not be accountable to ourselves, how can we possibly be accountable to others?

When that task is accomplished, I think things will calm down. It scares the crud out of me that an innocent person may have invested their life savings in this and we don't know where the heck that money went. That is damned irresponsible.

[ohioWfan]

Absolutely. This is about accountability and responsibility, and requiring those qualities from every leader.

Opposing those requirements for any reason at all is unthinkable, IMO. I cannot understand advocating financial secrecy in a matter of such great importance.

It goes against every fiber of my very conservative being to support hiding how money is spent..........especially donated money from concerned patriotic Americans who care about the sovereignty and protection of this country, and donated for that reason.

There may well be no problem with how contributions were spent, but we need to know that.