{"id":355349,"date":"2010-02-22T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerfreedom.com:\/\/4786fa3826bc69f54f9152e44ba0c93d"},"modified":"2010-02-22T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T00:00:00","slug":"yes-wayne-let%e2%80%99s-follow-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/355349","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Wayne, Let\u2019s Follow the Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don’t subscribe to the dead-tree edition of The New York Times<\/i>, you may have missed our full-page ad today asking readers, “Shouldn’t the ‘Humane Society’ do better?”<\/a> Considering that less than half of one-percent<\/a> of money spent by the Humane Society of the United States<\/a> (HSUS) in 2008 went to hands-on pet shelters, lots of people think there’s room for improvement. If you didn’t get the ad, here’s a copy to view:<\/p>\n

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It appears we’ve hit close to home at HSUS headquarters. CEO Wayne Pacelle<\/a> has dialed up his usual issue-dodging response<\/a> and attacked us for supposedly having a profit motive in airing his dirty laundry. <\/span>The irony is that Pacelle (as usual) closes his tirade on supposed “money-grubbers” with another appeal for donations. How telling. (Here’s a hint, Wayne: Your own bank account has $162 million in it. Why don’t you look there for loose change?)<\/span><\/p>\n

Who has more to lose with a little scrutiny? Our boutique nonprofit whose entire budget is less than what HSUS sticks into its executive <\/span>pensions<\/a>, or an animal rights group closely guarding its image and raking in $100 million a year in gifts from unsuspecting Americans?<\/p>\n

We want<\/i><\/b> everyone to “follow the money.” We have, and here’s what we found: Loads and loads of it goes to HSUS lawyers, HSUS campaigns, HSUS lobbying, and HSUS pensions<\/a>. Very little winds up aiding America’s underfunded hands-on pet shelters. It’s a fact that Wayne doesn’t deny in his response. And more Americans became aware of that fact today.<\/p>\n

Our HumaneWatch<\/a> project is just getting started. What you’ve seen so far is just the first trickle out of a very, very backed-up faucet. So perhaps we can count on Whiny Wayne having tantrum after tantrum this year. Fine with us. We’ll just keep speaking up for the shelter animals.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you don’t subscribe to the dead-tree edition of The New York Times, you may have missed our full-page ad today asking readers, “Shouldn’t the ‘Humane Society’ do better?” Considering that less than half of one-percent of money spent by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) in 2008 went to hands-on pet shelters, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}