‘Pro-troop’ conservative charity mainly exists to funnel money to Tea Party Express founder

[KamaAina]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/05/pro-troop-conservative-charity-mainly-exists-to-funnel-money-to-tea-party-express-founder/

Move America Forward was founded in 2005 and bills itself as the U.S.’s “largest grassroots pro-troop organization.” ProPublica’s Kim Barker wrote at the Daily Beast that in fact the group is an unregulated funding pipeline for the group’s founder and his firm. The charity rating organization Charity Navigator awarded Move America Forward zero out of four stars.

“In February 2013,” wrote Barker, “Move America Forward announced an ambitious fundraising goal. The charity, launched in part by one of the most prominent figures in the Tea Party movement, had adopted the 800 Marines in a battalion fighting in Afghanistan and wanted to send them all care packages.”

The group claimed to be sending packages to a 1st Marine Division battalion known as Geronimo to aid them in their fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. During the fund drive, however, Geronimo battalion wasn’t anywhere near Afghanistan, but were stationed in Okinawa, Japan....

Meanwhile, say tax experts, the group has funneled millions of dollars to Tea Party groups and to California Republican businessman Sal Russo, 67, founder of Move America Forward, the Tea Party Express and a bevy of other conservative consulting and political action groups.

[randys1]

1. Typical rightwing asshole punk

[Turbineguy]

2. I can't blame him.

Teabaggers and conservative "Christians" are the most credulous marks out there. Lenin could only have dreamed about useful idiots like them.

[arcane1]

3. I wish I could say I was surprised. Hell, most of their prez candidates were just fund-raising