DeLays' Foster Children Charity: " Adoption of Foster Kids DISCOURAGED"

[elehhhhna]

Here in TX we know about Tom DeLay's "Charity" Foster Children Subdivision...

Now you can, too.

Excerpts:

"According to records provided by the DeLay Foundation for Kids — which the DeLays founded in 1987 as the Delay Foundation — over the past five years, the charity has hosted lavish fundraising activities such as golf outings, hunting trips and Super Bowl shindigs. At these events, the foundation paid for $295-a-night hotel rooms, $255-a-piece spa treatments, and dinners featuring prime rib and bacon-wrapped scallops.

Those fundraising efforts brought in more than $7 million for the foundation from individual and corporate donors such as Citigroup, Merck & Co. Inc. and Pfizer Inc., among dozens of others, according to the foundation's records.

Until 2003, the DeLay Foundation for Kids expended relatively few of the proceeds, giving away about $500,000 to Child Advocates Inc."


"Hyde and Courtney believe Rio Bend cuts off access for its foster children to one of the most statistically likely routes to a permanent home: adoption by their foster parents."


http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/PubArticleTX.jsp?id=1145017720982

[converted_democrat]

1. Unreal.. K&R n/t

edited to add the K&R

[maddezmom]

2. disgusting

:mad:

[wakeme2008]

3. 32 kids that ALL

in Texas that isn't .001 percent of the kids in foster care.

The other thing is under Jebbie in Florida, foster parents get around $10 per day per kids. Texas pays $20 per day. that must not have been done under Gov GoodHair... :grr:

[AmandaRuth]

4. K & R

I wonder how this fits in with his Christian faith - not looking for a fight here with other spiritual DUers, just would like to know.