Money Monday, Not Moral Monday

Discussion

1. John Smith says

   July 8, 2013 at 7:26 PM

   How much does Rev. Barber make as NAACP president?

2. Mary Johnson says

   July 8, 2013 at 7:52 PM

   This article is poorly researched and its conclusions based on cherry picked data. HKonJ has over 140 partners. You have listed maybe 20 organizations.

3. Lonnie Webster says

   July 8, 2013 at 9:22 PM

   Civitas NC seems to oppose any group working for social justice, political empowerment of those without wealth or political power, groups protecting educational opportunities by working for great public schools. Civitas NC is paid to lobby for the interest of the very wealth and political powerful like Mr Pope who’s made it his mission to turn NC into the most repressive Plutocracy/Theroracy in North America. The common good means nothing, protection the wealthy is the only goal of Civitas NC.

4. Richard Allen says

   July 8, 2013 at 10:26 PM

   What a bunch of nonsense. The NAACP is the coordinating organization for Moral Mondays. They are nowhere to be found on this list. You found a bunch of other allied nonprofits, which – GASP – receive grant money in order to do socially beneficial work, something that is common and not controversial. And you act like any of this is a secret, when I’m sure your information came from easily accessible public sources.

   “The liberal-left has a talent for innocuous names and benevolent mission statements that mislead the public as to an organization’s true mission.” A hilarious statement coming from the people behind “Americans For Prosperity,” “Real Jobs NC,” etc.

5. Joy Howerton says

   July 9, 2013 at 7:52 AM

   Your article shows poor analysis and fails to prove your allegation at all. You probably know that. Some of your followers may not see what you are doing, but many North Carolinians do. Shame on you.

6. Kirk D. Smith says

   July 9, 2013 at 7:01 PM

   It is time to cut off the tax payer money stream for the Moral Marxist Monday Marching Mobs!

7. Some Dude says

   July 10, 2013 at 2:18 AM

   Yes, you don’t take funding from government like the apparently detestable PBS, or the taxpayers,

   But that’s probably pretty easy to do when as much as 97% of your funding comes from a guy who is now, surprise surprise, now part of the state budget committee.

   Have fun trying to Dox me!

8. Gina says

   July 10, 2013 at 6:06 AM

   If this was a republican issue, these Monday moon bats would have every paper out there printing this to make it all about money. Can’t do that to these Immoral Monday Mobsters. Bunch of raving lunatics. .

9. Cate Schroeder says

   July 10, 2013 at 9:34 AM

   Moral Monday is a grass roots effort directly caused by our current legislators attempts to take our great state back 50 years. Watching attacks on education, health care, unemployed workers, women, our beautiful NC environment and more is what has mobilized me. I know many people who have been in Raleigh every week, and many more who wish they could be, and NONE of them are there for the reasons you have listed.

10. James Bazan says

    July 10, 2013 at 10:28 AM

    I am not quite sure Civitas has thought through the implications of this analysis.

    Is Civitas suggesting that any person or organization surrenders its right to inform its membership about government action if it has ever received a grant (or a grant in kind), or a contract with any form of government ?

    Once any government money can be traced to them, then they have to pretend the government is perfect in every way?

    Is this a lifetime ban? Does this mean that Art Pope can never again comment on governmental abuse now that he has drawn a government paycheck?

    Such a sacrifice should be profiled prominently on Civitas.

11. Clarence Henderson says

    July 10, 2013 at 1:39 PM

    “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” – Thomas Jefferson

12. JohnC says

    July 10, 2013 at 7:50 PM

    Ah-ha, ACORN splinter groups misappropriating nonprofit funds for political purposes. I always questioned where these groups get their endless funding to camp out in state buildings and continuously interrupt school board or legislative meetings. I suspect much of it comes from Washington. Recent document dumps showed our Justice Dept funding protests in Florida during the Travon Martin upheaval. Maybe the IRS should get involved in this while they’re denying Tea Party nonprofit status. These leftist activist groups are stealing taxpayers blind. And what’s worse is we allow this nonsense to continue. That guilt complex bites us every time.

13. David Smith says

    July 17, 2013 at 12:19 AM

    I want a job here

14. Artnunymiss says

    July 21, 2013 at 12:10 AM

    Hilarious. Especially love the poll. It’s okay, the step where you fight us is the last one before “we win.”

15. Anonymous says

    July 22, 2013 at 4:17 PM

    I wish I were you, Francis. I’d love to be able to make over $98K per year for making blog posts like these.

    Pot, meet kettle.

16. Francis De Luca says

    July 22, 2013 at 6:14 PM

    Anonymous – I wish I made that much money. And by the way, none what i am paid comes from the state or federal government.

    That should be the rule for most non-profits.

17. Anonymous says

    July 23, 2013 at 10:14 AM

    I appreciate your reply, Francis, but if you look at this form:

    http://tinyurl.com/civitas2012

    (go to page 33)

    You’ll see your name right next to a very large amount of money.

    So, either you’re lying, or your organization lied on its tax return.

18. Francis De Luca says

    July 23, 2013 at 12:45 PM

    Anonymous again (Interesting that you won’t use your real name on these posts)

    I am not PAID that amount. The other money which you are counting is what pays for health, dental and 401(k) contribution by the employer. Since we don’t have a pension plan we contribute to employees 401(k).

    Apples to apples comparison. What you are referring to is “total compensation” which if you add up for most people is much more than what they are paid.

    I have no golden parachute like Billy Ray Hall at the Rural Center (http://civitasreview.com/budget-taxes/more-bad-news-for-nc-rural-center/) and none of my compensation comes from taxpayers.

19. Anonymous says

    July 23, 2013 at 3:32 PM

    I see no need to use my real name because I’m not a public figure.

    You still haven’t explained how you, making a large salary for being a glorified blogger (and splitting hairs about exactly how much you make), are of a higher moral standing than another person making money from appearing in public.

    I have nothing but pity for you and anyone else in your organization who has to resort to photographing out-of-state license plates, among other things, in a desperate attempt to drum up support. Done are the times of great leaders like Eisenhower — we’re now left with trust fund babies and their their narcissism, and you certainly enjoy being an ally of the latter.

    May God have mercy on your soul.
    ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-
    You say you remain anonymous because “I’m not a public figure” yet you attack me behind that anonymity. I do not claim to be of a higher moral standing unlike all of those that claim the word “moral” for the protests they stage weekly. You also seem to be claiming a higher moral ground by asking God to have mercy on my soul. And to my salary – I feel I do an honest days work for an honest days pay. I have always felt myself fortunate to make any income, no matter how much or how little. Francis De Luca

20. Lonnie Webster says

    July 23, 2013 at 5:06 PM

    I wonder if Mr. Francis De Luca an aging Southern old white man what a poor spokes person he makes for the modern world of reality. Today the Winston Salem Journal printed a photograph of an elderly veteran of the Korean War and Vietnam War in handcuff using a cane to stand up against Mr Francis De Luca and Mr Pope’s puppets in Raleigh who would dare to restrict the American Freedom of voting. This is your new Republican Brand? It starting to look very much like the repressive dictatorships government we fought in World War II. Let the Republican party compete with ideas that give equal opportunities of education, living wage jobs, tax codes not weighted in favor of the very rich. Ethics and morality are missing with the people at Civitas NC.

21. Janine Maves says

    July 25, 2013 at 5:25 PM

    So, it’s better to be owned by a monopoly of the few, rather than be composed of groups of citizens acting together? perhaps Civitas should read the definition of civitas.
    From Wikipedia: Civitas Action Inc, a 501(c)(4) non-profit organized by the John W. Pope Civitas Institute think tank, also sent out mailings against Democratic candidates in the North Carolina 2010 general elections, and is funded primarily by Variety Stores, which is owned by Pope.[14]
    Pope also played an active role in the 2010 redistricting of North Carolina’s electoral map as a pro bono legal adviser during the process. The redistricting effort assisted in shifting the state’s U.S. House delegation from 7-6 Democratic to 9-4 in favor of Republicans.[18]
    He has advocated doing away with the public financing of judicial elections in North Carolina,[20] and he has been a major donor to state legislative races.[4]

22. Michael Tuck says

    July 25, 2013 at 6:48 PM

    Sorry. This is entirely false. Oppose and counter liberals, progressives, moderates, rational conservatives, and decent Americans all you will, but don’t trot out a farrago of lies and pretend to play “gotcha.” Now let’s talk about the millions of Pope dollars that fund your “nonpartisan” “nonprofit” organization.

23. mister man says

    August 5, 2013 at 2:27 AM

    moral Mondays? right. all from the crowd that gives us the supreme morality of homosexuals pretending marriage! and of course the other great cause of equity: an invading army of poverty, ignorance and crime and intolerance and contempt for …surprise: principle. oh, wait; i’m receiving an important message form control central of the socialist internationale…O yes, I hear and …I will repeat and remember… and repeat…and remember…and repeat…ONE: STOP GLOBAL WARMING! TWO: GUN CONTROL!! THREE: GAY MARRIAGE!!!…and FOUR (most important of all) NO SMOKING!!!!

24. Jeff says

    August 5, 2013 at 3:44 PM

    Funny how all the people claiming this is completely false then spew out liberal generalities rather than proving it false.

    America needs to wake up most politicians and groups like Moral Monday’s are out to scam you. Stop buying into it. Stop letting them feed your anger with extreme caricatures of the other side.

    Take back the country, form a new party of Libertarian style repubs and democrats, it can be done.