[Peace-discuss] 'Southern Poverty Law Center'

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Corrected link: <https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/990_103116.pdf <https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/990_103116.pdf>>


> On Feb 13, 2017, at 2:16 PM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> A recent dispute on this list about SPLC is updated by a Facebook thread from Doug Henwood (Left Business Observer).
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> [Doug Henwood] Maybe this would be a good time for Morris Dees & the Southern Poverty Law Center to spend some of the $328 million hoard it's accumulated over the years:
> www.splcenter.org
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> [Kelly Grotke] they are "protecting themselves from inflation", you know. Seriously, that was on their 2014 return.
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> [Gregory Smith] Wow. Dees gets paid $330K per year?!
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> [Doug Henwood] A pal who went to his house to get interviewed said it felt like a pre-Civil War plantation, complete with black yard workers.
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> [Gregory Smith] How in the world did they rack up $328million in "private equity investments?"
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> [Doug Henwood] They hardly spend any money on anything but fundraising. They send out fundraising appeals based on things like a reborn KKK - utter crap - and the dollars pour in from gullible Yankees. Ken Silverstein did the definitive work on this years ago, and I don't think anything's changed.
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> [Doug Henwood] Almost $400,000 if you count the supplemental compensation. Getting rich off poverty and systemic bigotry!
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> —CGE

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