How's this for irony... Following Hurricane Katrina, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) criticized the Bush administration for what they claimed was a racially insensitive slow federal response... Well... guess what? CNSNews.com reports that the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, "has yet to spend any of the estimated $400,000 that it raised for the victims of the Aug. 29 storm."
"We are collecting all the way up through the very end of the year and then our board has set aside a committee who is going to administer the funds," Patty Rice, spokeswoman for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), told Cybercast News Service on Wednesday. The Foundation is an offshoot of the Congressional Black Caucus and was founded in 1976.
In the days immediately following the hurricane, with parts of the Louisiana and Mississippi coastline demolished and the city of New Orleans under water as a result of broken levees, members of the Congressional Black Caucus condemned the Bush administration's handling of storm relief efforts.
"We have witnessed something shockingly awful and that is the lack of response, the quick response, from our government to those Americans who are suffering [and] who are dying," said U.S. Rep Jesse Jackson Jr., (D-Ill.) on Sept. 2, four days after Katrina made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
U.S. Rep. Carolyn C. Kilpatrick (D-Mich.), also present at the Congressional Black Caucus' Sept. 2 news conference, declared that she was "ashamed of America."
"I'm ashamed of our government. We don't want another Iraq, where the money just goes off somewhere. This is real human need. And I'm outraged by the lack of response from our federal government," Kilpatrick said.
I wonder if Kilpatrick is ashamed of the CBCF for their incredibly slow response...
Ken Boehm, chairman of the conservative National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a group that monitors charitable giving, was quick to criticize the CBCF.
"It sounds like the CBCF has been stressing the immediacy of the [victims'] needs when they raised the money and yet for some reason when it comes time to dishing it out they can't seem to get organized," Boehm told Cybercast News Service.
"The need is immediate and ongoing as they themselves have cited. For whatever reasons they have failed to give away a single cent as of the week before Christmas," Boehm said. "It appears that the CBCF has failed to meet the standard that it set up itself for: timely aid to Katrina victims."
I guess the CBCF hates black people... Does Kayne West have a comment?
Posted by Matt at December 22, 2005 02:58 PM
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Hypocrisy, democrat is thy name
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CJ at December 22, 2005 03:15 PM
I wonder what that shady operation really has in mind for all that money?
Posted by: Rplat at December 22, 2005 03:35 PM
Short, sweet and to the point, CJ
Posted by: Retired Spook at December 22, 2005 04:07 PM
Funny, that they didn't bash-their own inept leaders, Nagin, NOPD Capt., Govenor, etc.---but instead, choose to Bash-Bush.....Wonder if this money, will disappear, just the the other $60Mill
that was issued for the levies? Funny how that just seems to happen-Poof, money gone, AND, NO ACCOUNTING FOR IT!
Posted by: Jo at December 22, 2005 08:00 PM
*Sigh*
Race baiting and then waiting to use the money? Okay...
Posted by:
Gozer at December 22, 2005 08:42 PM
Hi, what is the best charity for the people effect by Katrina?
Regards,
Bill
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Bill Rogers at May 20, 2006 08:24 PM
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Hypocrisy, democrat is thy name
I wonder what that shady operation really has in mind for all that money?
Short, sweet and to the point, CJ
Funny, that they didn't bash-their own inept leaders, Nagin, NOPD Capt., Govenor, etc.---but instead, choose to Bash-Bush.....Wonder if this money, will disappear, just the the other $60Mill
that was issued for the levies? Funny how that just seems to happen-Poof, money gone, AND, NO ACCOUNTING FOR IT!
*Sigh*
Race baiting and then waiting to use the money? Okay...
Hi, what is the best charity for the people effect by Katrina?
Regards,
Bill