Thread: Tidings of Great Joy! ACLU Facing Red Ink Because of Green F

Thanks Waiter I usually dont send out cards but that is one I will definitly send out.

A great Christmas gift for America, and a sack of coal for the ACLU. Bah humbug.

Merry Christmas to all, and God bless America.

Matthew 7:15

yea, this is indeed good news.
maybe the people who donated in the past are waking up to the fact that this
group is now anti american

ACLU loses its biggest donor: $19 million a year

Previously anonymous giver says economy has taken toll on his finances

updated 4:33 p.m. ET, Thurs., Dec . 10, 2009

NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union has lost a quarter of its yearly donations after a major donor cut off $19 million in annual donations because of economic difficulties.

David Gelbaum, a wealthy California conservationist, said he was indefinitely stopping the donations that had made him the New York-based group's largest anonymous donor.

"For a number of years, your organization has received very substantial charitable contributions from me," Gelbaum said in a statement. "My investments in alternative, clean energy companies have placed me in a highly illiquid position as a result of the general credit crisis in the American and world financial systems."

Gelbaum also announced he was halting some $12 million in yearly gifts to the Sierra Club Foundation and about $50 million a year that he's been giving to an organization serving veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gelbaum has given a total of $389 million to the groups from 2005 to 2009.

Gelbaum says he hopes others will step forward and replace his donations.

The New York Times named Gelbaum in a story published in the newspaper Wednesday. Gelbaum had previously funded those organizations anonymously.

"While we're clearly disappointed that his desire to remain anonymous was breached, we remain eternally grateful for everything he and his family have done to advance the cause of civil liberties for all Americans," ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero said.

Romero also called Gelbaum an American hero, "an unassuming man with a spectacularly generous spirit."

Donation gap

The ACLU is attempting to fill the revenue gap with funds from other donors, and over the past two months has raised a total of $23 million, spread over the next three years. The organization "will need to consider a number of budget reductions as well as the possibility of drawing down from our reserve funds if necessary," John Kennedy, a spokesman for Romero, said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Gelbaum's donation to the Sierra Club Foundation was earmarked for outdoor programs for military families, including a popular summer camp program for children of deployed veterans.

"That program will not be impacted in 2010, and then we'll have a year to figure it out," said Sierra Club national spokesman David Willett. "Obviously, we'll be looking for additional donations."

Gelbaum, a native of Minnesota, made his fortune working for hedge funds, where he used mathematical formulas to pick stocks and bonds.

He runs an investment firm called Quercus Trust, based in Newport Beach, Calif.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34364175/ns/us_news-giving

I mailed out my Christmas card to them this morning. On the front it said "Merry Christmas" with a manger scene and inside it said "Christ is born" I added "God bless and Merry Christmas". Hope they hang it up on their office entrance.

Originally Posted by redpony353

This guy also was a major donor to the Sierra Club

Yes, and his donations are why the Sierra Club became mum on environment destroying immigration!!

Originally Posted by OneNationUnderGod

I mailed out my Christmas card to them this morning. On the front it said "Merry Christmas" with a manger scene and inside it said "Christ is born" I added "God bless and Merry Christmas". Hope they hang it up on their office entrance.

Was it last year or so that there was a campaign to do this as well? I remember sending cards.

I just looked through the pile of left over Christmas cards and picked the most Christmasy one left, it's addressed and going out in the mail tomorrow.

This organization has done TO much damage to our country. What a blow.

Sent one from myself, my unlce my son and my daughter. Nice old 1930's era Santa Clause, a Nativity scene, a bright star to the east over some christmas trees (it has sparkly glitter on it), and last but not least, a Frosty the Snowman card!



I like givin' it back where I can. These people need it.

Pass the FairTax that repeals all income-based taxation and replaces it with a national retail sales tax on consumption of new products and services, and watch all these "contributors" to all these 501 C 3 phony "charities" run for the hills. The FairTax would shut down all these fraudulent phony political action organizations posing as "charities" lining their pockets from salaries funded with tax-exempt, tax-deductible contributions that only raise our deficits, increases our debt, robs our coffers, steals power over our own government from the people of the US and forces decent hard-working Americans and businesses to have to pay more in income taxes to make up for their deducted differences.

www.fairtax.org