Pat Robertson's mob is going broke (but not Pat himself)

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=93369&ran=72372&tref=po

Once powerful Christian Coalition teeters on insolvency

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The group’s annual revenue has shrunk to one- twentieth of what it was a decade ago – from a peak of $26 million in 1996 to $1.3 million in 2004 – and it has left a trail of unpaid bills from Texas to Virginia. Among the creditors who have sued the coalition for nonpayment are landlords, direct-mail companies, lawyers and at least one former employee seeking back pay.

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The reasons for the group’s decline are legion, say supporters, critics and experts who have followed its trajectory. Among them are the loss of key leaders, including Robertson, who resigned as president in 2001; alleged mismanagement by his successors; the cyclical nature of politics; and bitter infighting within the organization and with other political players on the religious right.

“Their future is really bleak,” said Mark J. Rozell, a professor of public policy at George Mason University who has followed the Christian conservative movement for years. “The Christian Coalition is a shell of its former self.”

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Based in Chesapeake through the 1990s, the coalition moved to an office on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2000. Its Chesapeake landlord sued the group in 2001 for $76,546 in back rent, in a case that is still open in Chesapeake Circuit Court.
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hhhmmm living it up in DC in 2000

all these groups go under evenutally. Remember Jim Baaker? Sadly, they leave a lot of hurt and broke people in their debris.

I lived in Taylorwood Estates on Taylor Road in Chesapeake, early Sixties. One of my neighbors was Jim and Tammy Faye Baker. Robertson would occasionally stop by, too. I have rather vivid memories of them, really. If I was riding my bike around the neighborhood, Robertson always made a point of calling me over and quizing me with bible questions. He patted me on the head like I was some kind of dog if I got them right. Shortly after I moved to New Orleans and was amazed when they became national figures. I hated them then, and I despise them now, though I have some sympathy for Tammy Faye, dingbat that she is.

As an aside, my dad and I were walking the neighborhood one Winter day when it had snowed. We noticed that the Bakers house's front door was wide open, and massive amounts of snow had drifted into the hallway. Dad knocked and yelled, but no one was home. He closed the door out of courtesy. Who leaves the house with the front door wide open during a snow storm????

this is too good :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

that take down any corporation.
These organizations are even more susceptible to the greed than a corporation that has goods to sell other than myths.

I can't say I will feel bad about this one going down.

I know, I know, I'm glorying in another person's pain, but still...when we are talking about Pat Robertson, the term 'person' applies very loosely.

I can only wait to see him fall apart like the Bakkers did 20 years ago. After what Robertson has done to this country, it's called poetic justice.

Bush's wonderous economic "recovery" made them tighten up their belts a bit, didn't it?

You have to wonder, how much money has passed through their hands over the years? And how much of it was diverted to their own uses, like funding Pat Robertson's diamond mines in Africa, his race horses, his "Operation Blessing" which turned out to be a curse.

I believe this organization has also been the recipient of federal aid, the "Faith Based" crap.

And don't forget: after hurricane Katrina, the FEMA web site was posting them as a proper place to send donations. Yeah right.

And STILL it wasn't enough to keep them afloat.

Looks like Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" of capitalism is slapping Pat Robertson. he he

this is why they always want control of other peoples money. To do something that cost $5,000 a year, they must have 500,000 a year to make it work. Otherwise it's bust city.

Ive put on a few LBS.

from the Christian Coalition in 2001, because he knew that it was heading downhill. The Christian Coalition has been on a downhill trend since Ralph Reed left in the late 90's. Like the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition is going to be dead soon :woohoo:, but it will be replaced with another fundie organization, that is waiting in the wings, like Dobson's Focus On The Family :scared:. But just because the Christian Coalition is on it's death bed, Robertson is still stealing people money somehow, he is still a well known American icon of the Religiously Insane, like Jerry Falwell of the Moral Majority. Hopefully, Karma will kick him in the ass one day soon along his buddy Jerry, so I'm an agnostic, who prays for that they go downhill fast, along with the rest of religious right, because they are lowest scumbags I've ever seen, and they need to be knocked down some pegs.