Quote:
Originally Posted by ottopilot
... By the end of the rally, they had raised $5.5 million for the Special Operations Warrior Fund. The goal was $600k. An enormous amount of good was done today regardless of your opinion of Beck.
|
Lets not get carried away on who benefits from the donations quite yet.
Small print on the "Restoring Honor" donation page:
Quote:
All contributions made to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation will first be applied to the cost of the Restoring Honor Rally...
Restoring Honor - 8.28.10
|
I wonder if that includes paying Palin's going rate of at least $100k or paying Beck himself?
To-date, the SOWF charitable pay-out rate is far lower than most charities....something along the lines of 20% of all donations received last year.
But it was a well attended event.... a sea of middle aged and white.....but at least this time they didnt have to use a fake pic to inflate the numbers.
---------- Post added at 12:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:49 AM ----------
Quote:
It's not clear how much money the foundation might receive. A footnote on the rally's Web page explains that donations will go first toward the cost of the event. Anything left over will then be kept by the foundation.
A representative of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation referred all media inquiries to Jason Raffel, Beck's New York-based publicist. Raffel, in turn, referred inquiries back to the foundation.
washingtonpost.com
|
It appears both parties are passing the buck (so to speak) on how much will actually benefit the SOWF.