I don’t donate to charities I don’t personally know about and I would never donate to any charity with the communist slogan word ‘Forward’ in the title.
I would be skeptical about the Daily Beast reporting on this
The far left Daily Beast picked this up and publishes it.
Kim Barker was a reporter covering campaign finance and the aftermath of the BP oil spill; her stories have run in outlets such as The Washington Post, The Atlantic and Salon.
Ping.
“Move America Forward calls itself the nation’s “largest grassroots pro-troop organization,” and has recruited a bevy of Republican luminaries, including former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney, to support its efforts.”
Now I know why Cheney started Alliance for a Stronger America.
Perhaps you can tell us something about this.
Hey Free Republic, this is Danny Gonzalez with Move America Forward. I have been a member of the site for a long long time but I admit I don’t post often enough :)
Longtime free republic people will remember us from way back when we did our bus tours. We are good friends with, and have personally met many Freepers all across the country.
I want to tell you all that these allegations are completely untrue and misconstrued by Kim Barker and Pro Publica. She is a far left wing hack and she did this attack piece as her last letter before leaving the publication to begin a new job at the New York Times.
She has attacked MAF in previous articles as well as the Tea Party movement. I wanted to reach out to you guys and make sure that you know we have nothing to hide and I want to answer all your concerns and questions.
It’s hard to believe someone that has been here since 2008 would fall for an obvious left wing hit job on an organization that has been supporting our Troops for 10 years.
Did you even think to investigate this yourself (and take a look at the leftist author’s agenda) before smearing a good man who works tirelessly for our Troops and our Constitutional Rebublic?
That's what this story's purpose is, to get the uninformed to believe their claptrap.
Melanie Morgan came to a Free Republic event in 2001 and Free Republic has been working with her ever since for Patriotic purposes.
She was instrumental in starting Move America Forward, and was the Chairman for many years.
Putting in long hours and not taking ONE DIME in payment, she volunteered her time for years.
She also is the host of the Troopathon every year, and does it for no pay also.
Sal Russo and MAF and The Tea Party Express have been raked over the coals in the Media for years.
All the lies have been disputed and proved to be false information more than once here at Free Republic. The same claims were made about the Tea Party Express which also uses the counsulting firm run by Sal Russo.
In fact this article is pretty much a copy/paste of other false accusations posted here on FR by posters that are low information or "concern trolls" who come here for the express purpose of fighting against Conservatism and The Tea Party Movement.
Jim Robinson and I, and many other FR members, have been working alongside MAF and the TPX since the inception of both.
Which includes working with Melanie Morgan and Sal Russo.
We worked with MAF in 2005 with a convoy to Crawford, Texas where FR put on a large rally/event to counter Cindy Sheehan and her "bitch in the ditch" event in Crawford, TX.
The convoy, or caravan if you wish, was a joint effort of Move America Forward and Free Republic.
I drove the FreepMobile from Fresno, CA with Jim and his lovely wife, Shelia.
We had about 40 vehicles convoying when we pulled into Crawford, TX.
I was honored to be able to walk up the ditch with Gold Star Mothers as they removed the crosses with their sons and daughters names on them that Sheehan was using for her own despicable political purposes.
Free Republic had a Tea Party in Sacramento, CA on Feburary 27, 2009 and I invited all the people that worked with MAF and they came and that was the inspiration for the Tea Party Express.
MAF had several nation wide tours in support of the troops and I went on every one of them (as an UNPAID volunteer), and Jim Robinson went on many of them also.
They have sent over 300 TONS of goodies to the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Also collected thousands and thousands of letters and cards and made sure EVERY TROOP got at least one.
Some of the members actually went to Iraq and personally gave our Troops cards.
The many letters/emails from the troops showing their gratefulness at not being forgotten by Americans are legion.
One of you said that this would have been addressed already if it wasn't true.
It's been addressed several times, and there are threads here on FR about that.
Like I said before, the people cutting and pasting the same tired old leftist talking points know what they are doing.
I can assure you that Free Republic supports MAF and the Tea Party Express and their fine work for our Troops and our Constitutional Republic.
Free Republic is good friends with Melanie Morgan and Sal Russo.
This leftist propaganda will be written about again you can bet on that.
Those of you that did; next time, don't fall for it.
Thanks to all of you that immediately knew the truth about this smear job, you are the Patriots I align myself with.
I watched this thread populate yesterday and this morning, but decided to see where it went before I chimed in.
Free Republic has been represented on every MAF and TPX major event.
Thanks to my friend Danny, the Samoan blogger and MAF employee for years, for posting to clear up some of the outright lies in this article.
I have seen him and numerous volunteers spend long hours packing up goodies for our Troops.