Editor,
Regarding the bill proposed by Scott Wiener, Josh Becker and Kevin Mullin to strip the nonprofit status of any entity that aided the participants in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (Jan. 7 edition of the Daily Journal), shouldn’t they expand that to included nonprofits that gave aid to rioters here in California?
Groups like Code Blue used tax-exempt donations to bail out looters and arsonists who cost the people of California billions. Not to excuse bad behavior anywhere, but shouldn’t the people we elected to protect our state, make that their priority, or is this really just tyranny of the majority?
Tim Donnelly
Burlingame
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(7) comments
Tom - what do you expect? When even the (then potential) Vice President contributed to that fund, these liberals practice the usual "good for thee but not for me" mantra. We have seen too many examples this last year.
Dirk,
Please clarify "that fund" you speak of being contributed to by VP Harris. My guess is that it is another right wing rumor that has been disproven.
Hey, Tafhdyd
I don't want to step on Dirk's toes, but I think he is referring to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF). An organization that provides bail funding and raised about $100,000 in 2018. With Harris' tweeting support for the MFF in the summer of 2020, they raised $35 million to help spring looters out of jail.
Ray,
I think we are close to agreement. Many on the right claim she donated to the group or groups similar to the MFF, which is incorrect. As you state, she supported the cause but did not donate, which is different from what Dirk said. Even though that has been pointed out to some on these pages, it is still preached as gospel.
I think you captured the essence of her involvement correctly. Her social media and other personal endorsements were a big reason MFF goes from $100,000 in fundraising revenues to $35 million. I don't know of any other national politician who supported looters in that way. Her support of MFF was a break from her way of doing business with incarceration when she was CA's AG. Did she evolve or was she just saying and doing things that she thought would help her as a VP nominee?
I wish she would spend as much time and effort on the border crisis... and she wonders why her ratings are so bad.
Well, if these Dems want to start stripping nonprofit status from certain folks, wait until red states decide to follow their lead and begin stripping nonprofit status, and other levels of status from folks who support BLM and Antifa. Perhaps even stripping status from lawmakers and government officials to turn them into ex-lawmakers and ex-government officials for such things as having the wrong stance on defunding the police, abortion, gun control, etc…
An excellent letter demonstrating the unequal application of the law under Democrats.
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