Kansas Secretary of State, the operator and driving force behind voter disenfranchisement efforts nationwide, may have found a new form of disenfranchisement to try: disenfranchising hard working residents from their money. In a report provided to the Kansas City Star, Veterans in Defense of Liberty, a charity where Kobach has been a member of the advisory board, is apparently a scam.
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However, the Better Business Bureau noted in a consumer warning Wednesday that “very little of the money it collects goes to veterans either.”
The bureau, which reviews the integrity of charities and businesses, gave Veterans in Defense of Liberty an “F,” the lowest possible grade on its scale.
A review of the group’s 2014 and 2015 filings with the Internal Revenue Service showed that 94 percent of the money donated to the group went to fundraisers, according to a news release from the Better Business Bureau.
Grifters gotta grift.
Kobach said that his understanding was that money donated to the group was “going to a variety of causes for veterans … and also to support political causes and issues important to veterans as well.”
Oh, wait, a non-profit posing as a charity of sorts that was investing in political causes. What kind of political causes would those be, exactly?
Their Facebook page and contact list have turned into long conservative screeds, attacking Hillary Clinton over conspiracies while promoting … Kris Kobach: www.facebook.com/…
Their email blast, available here: myemail.constantcontact.com/…
Makes pretty clear their political bent, referring to their update as “The Trumpet” post the 2016 election, and providing routine sections promoting… Kris Kobach.
From the Kansas City Star:
American Target Advertising, the Virginia-based firm that produced the mailers for the veterans’ group, kept $498,316 of $517,048 it raised for Veterans in Defense of Liberty in 2014, according to the bureau.
The following year American Target Advertising kept $525,468 out of $555,764 it collected for the group.
Kobach, who served in his role on the advisory committee for 6 years has proclaimed he was unaware of any disputes over how the non-profit handled money.
Considering that most of the resources seem to have gone toward promoting his conservative viewpoint, and Kobach specifically, it seems doubtful that he was so oblivious to just lose track of a half a million dollars being spent to benefit himself and his fellow Republicans.
