This nonprofit group is paying activists in Cleveland $80/day to disrupt the Republican National Convention in July. https://t.co/V7o3vtDiKH
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) April 20, 2016
What the ad says is revealing, but what it doesn’t say is perhaps more so.
Donors to the nonprofit get tax deductions, skeptics note. Is Ohio Citizen Action really the employer? Is it legitimate for a tax-exempt charity to use donations to protest and engage in political activism?
“Ohio Citizens Action is funded by the usual suspects from the world of radical left-wing philanthropy, people who want to tear America apart using crazy social engineering schemes and then try to glue the pieces back together,” said Matthew Vadum, senior vice president at Capital Research Center, a Washington-based nonprofit that tracks charity and philanthropy.
“The Joyce Foundation of Chicago is a particularly bad actor,” Vadum added, “which helps to explain why the radical now in the White House, Barack Obama, was drawn to it and used to be so active on its board of directors years ago.”
...Working America, an organization with close ties to the AFL-CIO, had an even better package until the ad expired.
The group’s Craigslist ad said those hired would start at $12.25 an hour for 90 days, then get bumped up to $15 an hour....
