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Nonprofit with ties to Stacey Abrams received $2 Billion in taxpayer funds

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by studegator, Feb 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM.

  1. studegator

    studegator GC Legend

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    No wonder there is a lot of screaming and nut pulling over Doge auditing by the left

    https://www.michaelrcronin.com/post...ion-in-taxpayer-funds-initially-reported-only
    initially reported only $100 in revenue
    DOGE, tasked with identifying and eliminating government waste, fraud, and abuse, began scrutinizing federal spending after Trump’s inauguration in January 2025. On February 13, 2025, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that his team, alongside DOGE officials, discovered that the Biden administration had “parked” the $20 billion GGRF—including the $2 billion for Power Forward Communities—at Citibank before leaving office. This move limited federal oversight and restricted the Trump administration’s ability to redirect or claw back the funds, though Zeldin has made retrieving them a priority.

    Zeldin called the allocation “extremely concerning,” noting that an organization with virtually no financial history receiving a grant 20 million times its reported revenue defied common sense. Critics, including energy advocate Daniel Turner, have gone further, labeling it “out and out fraud” and questioning how a newly formed nonprofit with no apparent expertise could secure such funding.


     
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  2. citygator

    citygator VIP Member

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    Michael Cronin dot com. lol. “Ties” to… We need a conspiracy theory subforum for the nutters.
     
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  3. Orange_and_Bluke

    Orange_and_Bluke Premium Member

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    Libbies hate the new government way.
    They want to tie our tax dollars up wasting away.
    Anyone challenging the old way will upset them Libbies.
    It’s awesome.
     
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  4. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    The story has been reported by many more sources than just Cronin. But apparently the Stacey Abrams connection: Power Forward Communities, which got the grant, is large coalition of nonprofit organizations including the United Way and Habitat for Humanity. One of the groups is Rewiring America, which was not founded by Abrams but she did join it as senior counsel a couple of years ago.
     
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  5. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    Next time they tell you the truth will be the first time
     
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  6. citygator

    citygator VIP Member

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    Free Beacon and the NYPost. Thanks for clarity. It’s a made up story. Stacy sits on humanitarian group board that gets federal funding…. Uh… ok.
     
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  7. slocala

    slocala VIP Member

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    Why is every MAGA here unable to dig deeper than the shallow ditch.
     
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  8. G8tas

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    OP is known for stretching the truth in his post and then never responding to criticism
     
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  9. gator_jo

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    The weird thing, at this point, isn't that MAGA members are so easily conned. Or that MAGA members simply repeat these lies without researching or learning a single damn thing about them. We've seen both these things happen over and over and over again .....

    The truly strange thing is that all the other MAGAs just watch it and are either like "dude tried to peddle a pack of lies? no big deal." Or they're like "I'll just scroll past this - pretend it didn't happen."

    It's just amazing. Not that those MAGAs who choose to be nutters and self-caricatures are OK with this - that's expected. But that all the rest of them are. I'm not sure about the proportionality, but there are still some somewhat reasonable people in MAGA that just tolerate the constant lies and misinformation. It's fascinating.
     
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  10. VAg8r1

    VAg8r1 GC Hall of Fame

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    If DOGE is the source I have serious doubts as to its credibility.
     
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  11. demosthenes

    demosthenes Premium Member

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    So really we should be stringing @tilly up since he has ties to this $2 billion.
     
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  12. Tjgators

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    or you could just read the press release. 2 Billion.

    Power Forward Communities
     
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  13. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    The grant is indeed real.
     
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  14. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    plausible deniability?

    aka

    willful ignorance
     
  15. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    @tilly..your turn in the barrel...:)
     
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  16. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    Very....VERY...miniscule ties. ;)

    In all seriousness we (Habitat) are very transparent with funding and Its one of the reasons I chose this organization when looking to move on from a prior non-profit that wasnt so transparent.
     
  17. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    Only if it's full of bourbon;)
     
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  18. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    this is MAGA, the strength, age, depth, or nature of the relationship doesn't matter..
     
  19. slocala

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    I suspect some post outlandish things here to get fact checked. They then turn around to beat down there crazy uncle. Easier than doing their own research. :cool:
     
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  20. VAg8r1

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    The grant is indeed real although what Elon, Zeldin and the right-wing media of MAGA land failed to note was that Stacey Abrams was only tangentially connected to the organization and it distributed the funds through grants to a significant number of nonprofit organizations and local governmental entities for many projects.
    This is just a partial list of those organizations:
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    Power Forward Communities
     
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