| POVERTY WARRIORS ARE WELL COMPENSATED by Tom Pauken |
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| by Tom Pauken | Tue, Jan 24, 2006, 09:17 PM |
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San Antonio Express-News columnist Roddy Stinson has another revealing column today on leaders of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) and their liberal allies who participated in an Austin conference last week on the school finance issue. It turns out that these "poverty warriors" and advocates for big government are very well paid for their efforts. Stinson researched and published the salaries of the leaders of these organizations. Here is what he found:According to salary information on the IAF's 2003 federal tax return ... Edward T. Chambers, Executive Director — $128,500 Executive Team: Ernesto Cortes Jr. — $128,000 Arnold Graf — $110,000 Michael Gecan — $105,000 Sr. Christine Stephens — $96,250 Margaret McKenzie — $93,000 Assuming the six execs have received cost-of-living raises since 2003, they are corporately pulling down annual pay somewhere north of $700,000. "Robert Greenstein, founder and Executive Director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ... (He) writes extensively on poverty-related issues." According to salary information on the center's 2004 federal tax return ... Robert Greenstein — $153,524 Joel Friedman, senior fellow — $120,907 Richard Kogan, senior fellow — $118,394 Susan Steinmetz, development director — $118,498 Iris Lav, deputy director — $121,496 Ellen Nissenbaum, legislative director — $127,108 Estimated 2006 total for the six champions of the poor — just south of $800,000. To read the entire Roddy Stinson column, link here. The question I have is: Are any taxpayer dollars being used, directly or indirectly to pay the salaries of these IAF officials? One of our readers took exception to my characterization of this Alinsky/IAF alliance as "leftist" in my Viewpoint column Monday. I would respond by saying that the founder of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) and the intellectual leader of the community organizing movement, the late Saul Alinsky, had no hesitation in referring to IAF as a "radical" force. In fact, the bible on community organizing which Alinsky authored is entitled "Rules for Radicals". Not only has the current IAF leadership refused to repudiate the radical philosophical tenets of its founder, it continues to teach techniques for using the "system" to destroy it.
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