{"id":31697,"date":"2017-10-06T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31697"},"modified":"2017-10-06T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T21:00:26","slug":"when-charity-becomes-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31697","title":{"rendered":"When Charity Becomes Political"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/why-are-mainstream-charities-funding-the-anti-trump-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investor&#8217;s Business Daily <\/a>posted an editorial recently about charities that are funding the &#8216;never Trump&#8217; movement. I find it hard to view what these organizations are doing as charity.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>An investigation by the <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/donors-anti-trump-resistance-group-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a> looked into the progressive community organizing group called the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Center for Community Change\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_for_Community_Change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Center for Community Change<\/a> Action (CCCA), which has spearheaded the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Stop Trump movement\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stop_Trump_movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">anti-Trump<\/a> &#8220;resistance.&#8221; What the Beacon found by looking at the group&#8217;s unredacted tax returns was surprising: Far from being funded by like-minded activists and grass-roots contributions, the anti-Trump CCCA is secretly funded by major charities with respectably wholesome, centrist images. In some cases, the charities fund other extreme left-wing activist groups, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Among those giving money to the CCCA \u2014 which, the Beacon notes, &#8220;has been involved in direct action against President <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Donald Trump\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> and Republicans before and after the November elections&#8221;\u00a0\u2014 include the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"W. K. Kellogg Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkkf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">W.K. Kellogg Foundation<\/a>, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ford Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fordfound.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Ford Foundation<\/a> and billionaire George Soros&#8217; Open Society Foundation, which have together funneled millions of dollars to the anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican activist group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Kellogg alone gave $3 million, while the Ford Foundation ponied up $2.3 million. Soros delivered a cool $1.75 million to the anti-Trumpistas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>And there were others, among them the California Endowment (created by the 1996 acquisition of WellPoint Health Networks by Blue Cross of California), $524,500; the Marguerite Casey Foundation (started by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Parcel Service\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=33.9433777778,-84.3596472222&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=33.9433777778,-84.3596472222 (United%20Parcel%20Service)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">UPS<\/a> founder Jim Casey), $515,000; and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National Immigration Law Center\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Immigration_Law_Center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">National Immigration Law Center<\/a>, $316,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These groups are funding the &#8216;resistance,&#8217; a group of sore losers attempting to undermine America&#8217;s representative republic. I really don&#8217;t know what has happened to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Democratic Party<\/a> and the ideas it used to espouse. I used to be a Democrat, but that was when you could be a conservative Democrat and remain in the party. Now the Democratic Party has become the party of ugly. They oppose anything, even if it would help move America forward. They stand for nothing except opposition to Donald Trump. It is sad that the Democrats and so many Republicans have become so attached to the Washington establishment that they have forgotten that they were sent to Washington to represent the American people. It truly is a shame that some charities have chosen to fund &#8216;the swamp.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investor&#8217;s Business Daily posted an editorial recently about charities that are funding the &#8216;never Trump&#8217; movement. I find it hard to view what these organizations are doing as charity. The article reports: An investigation by the Washington Free Beacon looked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11148,439,3357,8770,11147,4490],"class_list":["post-31697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-center-for-community-change","tag-democratic-party","tag-donald-trump","tag-ford-foundation","tag-nationa-immigration-law-center","tag-president-of-the-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31698,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31697\/revisions\/31698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}