January 30, 2008
CREW under the microscope
Very revealing piece in Roll Call yesterday about a so-called watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
CREW has made a habit of filing bogus legal complaints against the US-Cuba Democracy PAC, Bacardi, Mel Martinez, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, et al.
Well it turns out that these people who are always complaining about the who donates to which candidates are really the ones with the sleazy donors including The Arca Foundation (which is the Bagley family foundation, the home where Elian was taken in DC) and The Christopher Reynolds Foundation which have spent millions of dollars pursuing any means to pursue engagement with the castro regime.
Arca Foundation board member Margery Tabankin told Roll Call that she believes the foundation was supporting CREW for general operations, and that there was no mention of Cuba in the foundation’s discussion of grants to CREW.
A likely story. It turns out that these CREW complaints are nothing more than politically motivated witch-hunts funded by fidelistas and dialogueros.
Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at January 30, 2008 11:02 AM
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Henry,
Thanks for mentioning ARCA and REYNOLDS and Bagley! These organizations are one of the biggest, if not the BIGGEST supplier of funds to Cuba and anti Democracy programs related to the prison island.
When the Cuban American community finally wakes up and gets to know who they (ARCA and REYNOLDS and Bagley) are and what goes on I surely hope some grassroots action will take place to topple the power of these front groups. But even if we defeat them the Castro lovers will always find another way to funnle funds into Cuba.
Don't also forget the FORD foundation!
Is there a legal way to topple them by making them become forigen agents in service to an enemy nation?
I hope so. I hope no tax payer monies are going to these foundations.
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at January 30, 2008 11:34 AM
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