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BLM suspends fundraising after threats from liberal states for delinquent financial disclosures
Attorneys general in California and Washington state asked the Black Lives Matter group to submit delinquent financial disclosures for 2020. Apparently that spooked the group, prompting them to suspend online fundraising beginning Wednesday.
The Washington Examiner published a letter from California Attorney General Rob Bonta, writing to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) “that it was prohibited from soliciting or disbursing funds because of its failure to submit an annual report for the 2020 tax year” reports National Review.
The letter was dated January 31, and Bonta threatened to hold the group’s individual leaders personally liable for late fees. Washington’s Attorney General demanded BLM “immediately cease” all fundraising activities there on January 5.
Indiana’s Attorney General Todd Rokita has also raised concerns over BLM’s finances. “It appears that the house of cards may be falling, and this happens eventually with nearly every scam, scheme, or illegal enterprise” Rokita told the Examiner.
“I see patterns that scams kind of universally take: failure to provide board members, failure to provide even executive directors, failure to make your filings available. It all leads to suspicion” he added.
National Review writes:
The group said at the close of 2020 that after raising $90 million, spending $8.4 million in operating expenses and distributing $21.7 million in grants to 33 other organizations, it closed the year with $60 million. The group was not officially registered as a charity with the IRS until late 2020, according to the report. It has previously funneled donations through other liberal charities.
The report confirmed the group’s charity registration is out of compliance in multiple states, including Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Virginia.
No one has been publicly named as a replacement of Patrisse Cullors who resigned last May after facing backlash for buying four homes for over $3 million. It is unclear who, if anyone, is overseeing the group’s estimated $60 million bankroll since Cullors’ departure.
Nation
Biden Administration Proposes Rule to Fortify Federal Bureaucracy Against Republican Presidency
In a strategic move, the Biden administration has unveiled a proposed rule aimed at reinforcing the left-leaning federal bureaucracy, potentially hindering future conservative policy implementations by Republican presidents. This move has raised concerns about the efficacy of democratic elections when a deep-seated bureaucracy remains largely unchanged, regardless of electoral outcomes.
Key points of the situation include:
Presidential Appointees vs. Career Bureaucrats: Of the 2.2 million federal civil workers, only 4,000 are presidential appointees. The vast majority, made up of career bureaucrats, continue in their roles from one administration to the next. This continuity is facilitated by rules that make it exceedingly difficult to discipline or replace them, resulting in a bureaucracy that tends to lean left politically.
Union Political Affiliation: A striking 95% of unionized federal employees who donate to political candidates support Democrats, according to Open Secrets, with only 5% favoring Republicans. This significant political skew among federal workers raises questions about the potential for political bias in the execution of government policies.
Obstructionism and Challenges for GOP Presidents: Some career bureaucrats have been accused of obstructing Republican presidents’ agendas, leading to policy delays and challenges. For example, during the Trump administration, career lawyers in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division declined to challenge Yale University’s discrimination against Asian American applicants, prompting Trump to seek legal counsel from other divisions. The case was subsequently dropped when Joe Biden took office.
Biden’s Countermeasures: President Biden has taken steps to protect the bureaucracy’s status quo. In October 2020, Trump issued an executive order aiming to reclassify federal workers who make policy as at-will employees, but Biden canceled it upon taking office.
Proposed Rule and Congressional Actions: The rule unveiled by the Biden administration seeks to further impede a president’s ability to reinstate Trump’s order. Additionally, some Democrats in Congress are pushing to eliminate the president’s authority to reclassify jobs entirely. This has been referred to as an attempt to “Trump-proof the federal workforce.”
Republican Candidates’ Pledge: GOP candidates such as President Donald J Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis have pledged to address this issue. According to reports from Fox News, Ramaswamy has gone further, advocating for the elimination of half or more of civil service positions, emphasizing the need for accountability.
Debate on the Merit of the Civil Service: While Democrats and their media allies argue that civil service protects merit over patronage, critics contend that the system has evolved into a form of job security for federal workers with minimal accountability. Federal employees often receive higher salaries and more substantial benefits than their private-sector counterparts.
In summary, the Biden administration’s proposed rule and broader actions to protect the federal bureaucracy have sparked a debate over the role of career bureaucrats in shaping government policy.
Republican candidates are vowing to address these concerns, highlighting the need for accountability and ensuring that government agencies work in alignment with the elected president’s agenda. This ongoing debate raises important questions about the relationship between the bureaucracy and the democratic process in the United States.
Information in this article was retrieved from Fox News.
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Keith Breedlove
February 4, 2022 at 6:54 pm
What if BLM says their just redistributing wealth? Will those liberal state AG’s let it off the hook? How soon before the shrill accusations of racism start, directed at those AG’s, to get them to back off?
TellTheTruth-2
February 5, 2022 at 11:29 am
Americans NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH about Black Lives Matter ..
Opal Tometi – BLM co-founder … One of the most high-profile founders of the Black Lives Matter organization, Opal Tometi – now one of the most influential and powerful political movements on the planet – has a long history of supporting Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro who is a full blown “Communist.
Alicia Garza – BLM co-founder … Born in 1981 is a self-described “queer” social-justice activist who reveres the Marxist revolutionary, former Black Panther, and convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur for her contributions to the “Black Liberation Movement.” Garza is likewise a great admirer of Angela Davis (another Marxist and former Black Panther), Ella Baker (an avowed socialist who had ties to the Communist Party USA and the Weather Underground), and Audre Lorde (a black Marxist lesbian feminist).
Patrisse Cullors – BLM co-founder … Cullors revealed that for more than a decade she had been the protégé of mentor Eric Mann, a communist revolutionary and a domestic terrorist who in the 1960s and ’70s was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground. Mann trained Cullors in Marxist-Leninist ideology and the tactics of political organizing.
Gennaro
February 5, 2022 at 1:53 pm
Ah come on folks, is anyone shocked or surprised that it’s a con?
Bobber
February 5, 2022 at 4:51 pm
To all you donors (mostly white), How does it feel to be chumped by a few black entrepreneurs? I hope you feel like stupid fxxks because YOU ARE!!! I personally find it hilarious. I hope everyone is happy the founders all bought million dollar homes around America on your money.
Chastran
February 5, 2022 at 6:02 pm
The crooks have been caught at their own game –ripping off the citizens…
Jeffrey Cooper
February 5, 2022 at 8:44 pm
I’ve always thought of them being a money-grabbing group they don’t give a royal Rosie rat’s ass about the black community all they care about is their own ass and how much money they can steal this group should be considered as a domestic terrorist organization and that every member should be arrested and charged for treason to the United States
MicMac69
February 6, 2022 at 4:27 am
Question is: Where were the conservative-republicans? Sitting stupid ducks as usual! Never daring to ask embarrassing questions… or simply not interested?
ConAlpizar
February 6, 2022 at 1:32 pm
Suspends. That could mean a couple of weeks. BLM has done a lotnof harm and whoever is foolish enough to give them money, go ahead, be that stupid. There is a lot of them going around.
JC
February 6, 2022 at 2:50 pm
That doesn’t mean the crooks are of the hook for for the millions they already stole bought mansions for themselves and didn’t give anything to black people, I bet Soros is involved with this big time.
Sad4theUS
February 6, 2022 at 8:43 pm
You mean BLM can have a Go Fund Me but the Freedom Truckers can’t?? I guess because GFM likes and approves of BLM’s violence and corruption but doesn’t like what the Freedom Truckers represent… freedom and the Right to make our own choice. There’s no room for freedom and choice when you’re propagating Communistic propaganda!
R
February 10, 2022 at 11:30 am
BLM = Terrorist Org.
Mr. Lighter
February 13, 2022 at 4:32 pm
Ahhh yes! BLM is beginning to eat itself: The beginning of a quick death! No surprise! Liberals lie, cheat, and steal. It is what they do. They don’t produce or create anything except misery.
Wade Dukes
February 19, 2022 at 9:26 am
I’ll bet a good one cent out of every dollar raised goes to its intended cause…maybe.
Smudgie Kay
April 30, 2022 at 4:55 pm
What about all those city voters in Chicagoland, NY, Seattle, Phoenix-Tucson,CA and all across America who voted in the “Woke” Mayors, who voted in “Woke” Governors, who voted in “Woke” School Boards, who voted in “Woke” House Representatives, Senators, Sheriff’s, etc. and now realize they are the exact “Woke liberals” who changed the face of America from freedom to socialist communities, counties, states and federal offices. The Mayor of Tucson AZ even drapped a huges yellow banner across the city office building saying “All BLM are welcome” to Tucson. Those who spoke out were quickly called “White Extremists and Racists”.
While middle America pockets are being drained to poverty levels and put on Government payouts and out of work and locked inside their houses, While the socialist-communist-Marxism have quietly risen to millionaires by the same voters who refused to learn about the backgrounds of those running for an office. They relied on socialist media radio and TV and socialist technology to find out any lies against America and still do today.
Voters are ignorant, uniformed and lazy. Millions of voter’s families are split right down the middle because of liars, cheats, and agenda seekers to bankrupt America by its own people.
The ‘WOKE’ Populace are the laziest, brainwashed, globally uneducated group of people to ever populate the U.S.A. They have a world of information at their fingertips, and still they allow their minds to be filled with nonsense and lies and unsubstantiated, unproven reports. And THESE will be leaders that are being voted into office now and in the near future. They are cunning as the devil himself, they are the craftiest of loathsome beasts and now the riches of mega millionaires, safe from prosecution, Thanks to Senator John McCain and Senator Fienstein who endorsed and pushed the original NonProfit bill 501C that is now the 503C bill protecting these Rip off organizations while voters (legit or illegal) continue to put them into power. Look no further than the MONEY trail, the greed, the lazy ignorance. What will any of these socialist-communism voters do when the food shortages begin under this new face. Twenty major food processing facilities have been destroyed in the past 2 years. Look it up. Did it begin with Covid, with Putin and Ukraine, or when Biden started warning recently about shortages, or did it begin with the ignorance of voters here in American.