Gay Website Bags on SPLC

[Paslode]

Found this on Sipsey...

http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2010/11/southern-poverty-law-centers-cayman.html

Assets for the organization are listed at $190 million, a nice chunk of change in these economic hard times. When was the last time this group, with almost $190 million in assets, did a damn worthwhile thing about, um, poverty?


The big bucks nesting in SPLC's bank accounts, domestic and foreign, are not the only area of interest to me. Noted veteran leftwing writer Alexander Cockburn in May 2009 (http://www.creators.com/opinion/alexander-cockburn/king-of-the-hate-business.html) analyzed SPLC's IRS 990 for the previous year, its enormous endowment and wallet-busting salaries, and compares its agenda with more effective and smaller budgeted groups:

[Requiem]

The latest 990 additionally shows founder and chief trial counsel Morris Dees had his salary raised to $350,000, and his CEO, Richard Cohen, is close behind at $345,000.

The tax filing also shows Dees traveled by air charter, and that his spouse, artist and businesswoman Susan Starr, accompanies her husband on the business trips.

For Dees, the P in SPLC has nothing to do with personal poverty. That P better stands for profit or profiteering for him, and foolish donors keep sending him checks, thinking they're helping poverty-stricken blacks or whites in Alabama move into better housing.


How does one justify that kind of salary at a not-for-profit agency? :( I hope donors realize they're supporting some very extravagant lifestyles and withdraw their future contributions to these con artists.

-Susan