Would you believe me if I told you that leftist Democrats in California are involved in very sketchy business dealings between for-profit and non-profit organizations, that some contend don’t “pass the smell test?”
The Washington Free Beacon Report a story by The Hollywood Reporter that actress Eva Longoria, who happens to look exactly like one of my ex-nightmares, is neck deep in the charity work of two of her amigas, Maria Bravo and Alina Peralta, and that those two friends of hers have been “using non-profit organizations to generate millions of dollars in business for for-profit entities that they also own.”
Here is what the Hollywood Reporters stated:
Bravo and Peralta have proclaimed to donors and the public that nearly all of the money they raise goes to a good cause, but they are quiet about how they make money through their event-production company, MandA, which the foundations hire to stage the galas, and about their for-profit limited company that sells advertising and sponsorships for the events. They assert that MandA produces events for rates that are “far below industry standard” and that the limited company manages all expenses for the events so “all donations are untouched.”
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Charity experts agree that the structure of Bravo and Peralta’s charitable enterprise raises concerns. “It’s all about transparency,” says Phil Buchanan, president of the Cambridge, Mass., based Center for Effective Philanthropy. “It’s hard to imagine how, if these people are in these leadership roles, they are contracting with a company they run—that is the very definition of a conflict of interest.”
Richard Marker, an NYU professor and co-principal of Wise Philanthropy, agrees. “People have an expectation that there will be a level of accountability,” he says. “There’s no question that it doesn’t pass the smell test.”
The Beacon said that Longoria was “combative and dismissive when questioned by The Hollywood Reporter, and saying that the allegations against her amigas were meritless,” that is until the writing on the wall was translated for her from Spanglish to English.
Longoria has had an epiphany of sorts, which has brought her to change her “tune” about the allegations, saying that she was “glad to hear that Global Gift Gala is improving the effectiveness of its operations.”
Longoria combative and defensive? No, you don’t say?
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane, to the 2012 Presidential election cycle, where I confronted a very “combative” Longoria after a Organizing For American event in Miami, Florida.
Here is what we wrote back then:According to Longoria, she is a 9th generation American, whose family arrived in “here” in 1603, but are not immigrants. Pay close attention to her words in this video we shot of her in 2012. Longoria says her family is American, yet the Mayflower had not arrived in the New World, and United States did not even exist.
Is the actress saying that everyone who was living in North America in 1603 is to be considered American? What I think she is trying to say is that her Mexican ancestry lived in what is now called the United States.
Prior to the event, Longoria and OFA staffers were alerted of my presence by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) who was there at the event, but quickly left after her speech.
Wasserman Schultz’s departure may have been due to the incident from the prior Saturday, when she and her staffers had me booted from the Florida Democrat Party’s annual banquet dinner, where media outlets went nuts over by ejection from the event, even though I was credentialed to be in attendance.
Watch Longoria get testy with me, after I questioned her about her “Hispanic outreach.”During the Q & A with Longoria, I was skipped over by organizers, who were taking questions in-line from the eight reporters at the press conference. After I gave them some well-deserved grief for purposely skipping over me, Longoria took my question, but didn’t let me finish asking the question in its entirety.
Watch the video>