...if you say so. :(
Posted on 04/07/2007 8:49:57 PM PDT by txradioguy
The Crawford Peace House, a home started by anti-war activists in the wake of "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan's demonstrations outside President George Bush's Texas ranch, has been accused of mismanaging tens of thousands of dollars in donations by an insurgent member who has seized legal control of the group's name and is calling for a state investigation.
Sara L. Oliver, who left the group in 2005 following a dispute surrounding her efforts to secure grant funding for the organization, and other disaffected members have gone public with their suspicions and accusations against the Peace House, calling for an official investigation into why the group only has $14,700 in its bank account. Tens of thousands in donations, collected during Sheehan's 2005 anti-war protest at the Crawford site, are unaccounted for, Oliver claims.
"There are people who have said, 'Don't say anything because you'll hurt the peace movement,'" Oliver told Associated Press. "But if the peace movement isn't pure and transparent and holy as it can be at its heart, then it's just like George Bush: lying, thieving, conniving, backstabbing bastards."
The group's bank account had dwindled to only $3 in early August 2005, but a month-long protest by Sheehan, held in ditches along the road leading to Bush's ranch, led to thousands of supporters coming to Crawford and many thousands of dollars in donations.
The 2005 protest proved to be a symbiotic arrangement for the Peace House and the thousands of demonstrators who joined Sheehan.
Co-founded in 2002 by John Wolf, a theater-set builder from Dallas who raised funds for the small $54,000 home by selling anti-war buttons and contributing $8,000 of his own money, the Peace House served as headquarters for protesters who found few public facilities in the rural Texas town.
An army of about 200 volunteers from the nearby Waco Friends of Peace fixed meals, cleaned the house and tended the garden that helped feed those who turned out.
Sheehan's protest brought the Peace House back financially, with over $285,000 raised in 2005. In the face of Oliver's accusation Wolf insisted the money was spent on food, van and bus rentals, gas and a large tent for the rallies at several events.
Libs: “Just give us all of your money and your rights. WE know how to run the world.”
I’m still trying to figure out who died and gave them the right to rule over the rest of us.
I hope they settle this with a pillow fight in lingerie.
Ewwwww....that mental image requires a stainless steel spork.
-- Edmund Burke
Very true sir. Very true.
OT....Happy Easter.
Happy Easter to you as well.
Ewwwww....you’re one sick puppy.
LOL, BTW how can someone have two ten year olds, you’re an imposter.
TWINS!!! (Not bad for an old man.)
Sow to the wind? reap the whirlwind.....Hosea 8:7
Calling George Soros!
...if you say so. :(
I guess this means there are thieves amongst those with no honor.
I can’t wait for the Justice Department to investigate. Maybe plea bargain down to a reprimand?
Wasn’t She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named recently advocating NOT paying taxes and boycotting the IRS to force the US out of the WOT? (Same day as GOE)
Seems like it might be time for an audit, don’t y’all think?
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