The Minuteman Project might be gone in a minute

[ck4829]

The Minuteman Project, one of the country's largest, richest and most influential nativist extremist groups, is in a state of crisis.

Its founder, Jim Gilchrist, is locked in a fierce battle for control of the organization with former allies and high-level Minuteman Project members amidst swirling allegations of embezzlement, gross mismanagement and fraud.

The struggle came to light in February, when three members of the Minuteman Project's Board of Directors — Barbara Coe, Deborah Courtney and Marvin Stewart — announced they had fired Gilchrist and seized control of the organization's bank accounts and website.

Coe (who has since resigned from the Minuteman Project) Courtney, and Stewart told the Los Angeles Times in early March that as much as $750,000 is missing from Minuteman Project accounts. Prior to that interview, they publicly accused Gilchrist of embezzling $13,000 from the Minuteman Project to pay his own legal fees and of illegally diverting $400,000 in donations to his failed 2005 Congressional campaign and to promote his book, Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders, published last year. Proceeds from sales of the book, they note, went to Gilchrist, not the Minuteman Project.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?site_area=1&aid=249

[Tom Joad]

1. Will Rep Tancredo & Gov Arnold come to their rescue?

[Old and In the Way]

2. Another RW Scam Group.

I'm sure hope all of those who contributed to this group realize that they've been played as fools...again.

[Ioo]

3. Republicans are greedy, here is more proof of that (NT)

[Horse with no Name]

4. A Rebublican embezzle? Say it isn't so...

:rofl:

[UTUSN]

5. K&R for BWAH-hahahahaHAH!!1 Can they take TANCREDO, CORSI, et al. with them??!!1 n/t