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[one-eyed fat man]

The VPC has to file with the IRS, where the money comes from is easy to find out. Money from dues paying members has been nothing for years.

One way to judge the an organization's grassroots support is to see how many folks will pony up with cash to fund their views. Because VPC has no public membership revenues, in other words, it has no dues paying members, it gets virtually all its funding from the Joyce Foundation. Philanthropic Research has a web site named GuideStar, which contains tax returns for many non-profit organizations. Returns of the Joyce Foundation show $9,475,883 spent on gun control between 2005 and 2007.

Last year, the VPC took a grant cut of $115K from their sugar daddies at the Joyce Foundation. Assuming no increases or decreases, that would mean Josh Sugarmann and Kristen Rand are now siphoning nearly half of the total grant in just their salaries alone (what a sweet gig).

Last year Brady was reduced to selling their mailing list of "members."

Brady Campaign sells its member list to raise cash

Also note, "As Huffman points out, 50,000 members is far below the 'about half a million members' that Brady president, claimed in a 2004. Maybe the "450,000 members" who "disappeared" quit to protest the selling of their names in violation of Brady's own published privacy policy?

Did Brady misspeak, prevaricate, dissemble or just flat out fucking lie? Again? or still?