American Cancer Society continuing to use their funds to pay attorneys
From KSFY, it looks like the American Cancer Society is continuing to spend money on attorneys, as they advocate for a bigger government:
Friday the American Cancer Society will argue the petitioners have fallen about 200 signatures short of the 16, 667 needed signatures to take this issue to a public vote.
Jennifer Stalley is with the American Cancer Society.
“The Secretary of State says they are 18 short, we have 191 additional we want put back in so that’s more like 200 as far as being short.”
You know, in the distant past I’d made a couple of nominal donations to the American Cancer Society, as they I believe they’d helped with scarves for my mom who was undergoing chemotherapy for the breast cancer which she eventually succumbed to.
But it will be a cold day in hell before I ever pry my wallet open for another dime for them.
Why? They recently reported they’ve spent $50,000 on lobbying the legislature on the anti-smoking measure. Now, as they slog through a trial where they aren’t a party, but are pushing for a specific outcome of the case, they’re spending how much of their funds on attorneys to deny people the right to vote on a ballot measure?
When I make a donation to a charitable organization of this nature, I want it to go to research. I want it to go to helping out people suffering.
I certainly don’t want it to pay for attorneys to contest a ballot measure. And they need to get that hint.
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Comments
I am a little more careful as to who get my donations.
There are a lot of great charities out there that do a good.
There are even more scams, then you have these guys. Then you have these guys, who do some good things, then continue to push their agenda.
Pat:
So, who pays for the American Red Cross’s legal bills when they get sued or sue? Donors? Anonymous donors? The legal fairy waves her money wand and poof, a bag of money appears?
Just wondering.
Todd
Todd -
I can guarantee you we don’t use lawsuits to impose our will on the electorate, nor do we spend $50,000 of our donor’s money to influence legislation.
(Unless you count $100 worth of donuts 2 years ago.)
Well, its seems as if 11:27 has a valid point thats being ignored. I think of the hundreds of millions of dollars (fact) that the American Cancer Society spends on research and doctors annually, that a bill for $50,000 to go towards causes that a bit more “pro-active”, if you will, seem to be not as much of a waste of money as many of you want to think.
But wait then, Mike @ 10:19 has a point too. The American Cancer Society OBVIOUSLY has an agenda, and that is what..preventing the causes of cancer?? Those pricks. Stop them!
Seriously, “The American Cancer Society OBVIOUSLY has an agenda?”
Well, at least one of their biggest benefactors does – Smoking cessation products.
Follow the money.
Yes indeed, follow the money!
“The American Cancer Society (ACS) is accumulating great wealth in its role as a “charity.” According to James Bennett, professor of economics at George Mason University and recognized authority on charitable organizations, in 1988 the ACS held a fund balance of over $400 million with about $69 million of holdings in land, buildings, and equipment (1). Of that money, the ACS spent only $90 million— 26 percent of its budget— on medical research and programs”
http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs/wealthiest_links.htm
Is the American Cancer Society more interested in cancer profit than cancer prevention?
http://www.naturalnews.com/010244_cancer_American_Cancer_Society_the_ACS.html
This actually makes me want to contribute to ACS.