it seems the NewsPress can't write an editorial without quoting the SBCTA...are they in bed together?? Joe, who paid for that $60,000 Mercedes you've been driving..hopefully, with no Tequila Sunrises in the glove compartment! Drunk driving is no joke!! be extra careful!
Is SBCTA abusing its 501c4 tax-exempt status for political purposes and to enrich its
members instead of promoting social welfare?
Tax exemption is one of the principal benefits for non-profit organizations. Tax exemption enables the organization to operate without federal (and perhaps state) income tax. This benefit often enhances the organization’s ability to accumulate income and assets without paying taxes like you and me!Non-profit status:Both 501(c)(3)s and 501(c)(4)s must be run as not for profits.
Neither 501(c)(3)s nor 501(c)(4) earnings may benefit a private shareholder or individual.
Tax-exemption:
Both 501c3 and 501c4 organizations are exempt from paying federal income tax. State tax-exemption status varies by state.
the SBCTA wants your money..so maybe I should join...here's my analysis in blue..
the SBCTA sales pitch:
please consider donating or becoming a member donating? WTF for..what have you done that I should donate to your group of extreme rightwingers who don't work for a living? who rely on inheritance money?
Few organizations exist, especially at the local level, to watch and monitor how our local and state governments spend your tax dollars. but not yours..you don't pay taxes! The Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association has been serving taxpayers in this capacity for over 50 years, watching and monitoring..sounds like a nice job (if you're a girlie man!)
Unlike other local tax-exempt organizations, SBCTA receives no financial support from any government entity or 501 (C) 3 organizations, such as the "Fund for Santa Barbara", which claims to be a nonpartisan charitable organization and yet funds local political groups who continually support the waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money. So the "Fund for Santa Barbara" is involved in fraud..where's the proof?
fundforsantabarbara
please consider donating or becoming a member donating? WTF for..what have you done that I should donate to your group of extreme rightwingers who don't work for a living? who rely on inheritance money?
Few organizations exist, especially at the local level, to watch and monitor how our local and state governments spend your tax dollars. but not yours..you don't pay taxes! The Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association has been serving taxpayers in this capacity for over 50 years, watching and monitoring..sounds like a nice job (if you're a girlie man!)
Unlike other local tax-exempt organizations, SBCTA receives no financial support from any government entity or 501 (C) 3 organizations, such as the "Fund for Santa Barbara", which claims to be a nonpartisan charitable organization and yet funds local political groups who continually support the waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money. So the "Fund for Santa Barbara" is involved in fraud..where's the proof?
fundforsantabarbara
DONATE.... because SBCTA doesn't really like to work ...or mail donation to:
SBCTA, PO Box 21621, Santa Barbara, CA 93121
SBCTA is a non-profit 501(C)4 organization. Contributions to 501(c)(4) organizations generally are not deductible as charitable donations, but they may be deductible as a business expense. nobody will know!
membership
Our members are extremely important to keep SBCTA going. We rely on membership dues for approximately 50% of our budget. If you aren't yet a member, we ask you to consider joining the SBCTA so we can continue fighting to hold down your taxes! Name one incident where you've held down my taxes?
Individual/Family Membership Rates:
Individual: $45.00
Family: $50.00
Retired: $40.00
Lifetime Membership: Individual/Family: $750.00 - Retired: $300.00
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Business Memberships:
1 - 5 Employees$ 125.00
6 – 25 Employees: $ 200.00
26 -100 Employees: $ 350.00
101 – 250 Employees: $ 500.00
251 – 1000 Employees: $ 2,500.00
1000+ Employees: $ 3,750.00
a fool and his money are soon parted!
41 comments:
You sure have a raging hard on for those three. What do you suppose is the reason for this? Were you sexually abused as a child by a Republican male? You should seek counseling for this mental illness and try to get to the bottom of why you have an unhealthy obsession with certain men that you are compelled to stalk them via your political pornography blog.
Will you help me, Dr. Laura??
Since we know you don't have a real job, I'm probably the only doctor you can afford. Now go do the right thing.
What about your job Anon..how much does Wendy pay you to try deflect attention away from all her fellow reprobates I will continue to write about..does she let you wash her car? her hair?
mick, take your pills.
For awhile on some of the other blogs, there was a poster who kept telling those who complained about the News-Press that they had mental health problems and should get psychological help. Reads like this person has discovered your blog. Eventually, he/she will go away.
Everytime he posts, he proves my points, so he's not totally useless..close though... and he's obviously stuck in the Freudian phallic stage!
and what have you done to hold down my taxes Mick? Anything?
Let's see, SBCTA who has been around over 50 years or Mick the blogger who hides his identity? Tough one...
Taxpayer..what does being around over 50 years have to do with anything?? I pay my taxes..if SBCTA can get me a low flat tax instead of the dog and pony show they put on,they might be less of a joke. BTW...enquiring minds know my ID..like Superman and Clark Kent...
I like the taxpayers association and appreciate their valuable role in our community but i don't know who these three gents are. I know one of them is a city councilman in Carpinteria but I live in Goleta so I don't know anything about him. What did they do to anger you Mick?
Supermick, what evidence do you have that SBCTA is a joke? According to who? I respect SBCTA and so do a lot of people I know including the elected officials.
SBCTPA is a conservative group that advocates for a lot of positions I disagree with. But they also take a lot of sensible positions on issues I would never take the time to follow and appreciate that a lot as a taxpayer. I am a Democrat and have been my entire life but I respect their work and I think you are being extremely unfair to the organization because you don't like a few of their supporters.
You don't know who the executive director and the president of SBCTA are and you like what they do?? what do they do?? Can anyone answer that? It's a simple question!
What did they do to anger me?
Well, for starters, I've watched these three get busted for drunk driving which endangered me and my family, spilling oil (Greka) and ducking responsibility, and trying to mislead taxpayers about the public workforce for political gain! Who cleaned up Mike and Joe's mess? THE TAXPAYERS..if you like the organization, you should get more involved with how they spend your dues... I expose hypocrisy, reckless behavior, lying and these guys have it in spades. Naturally, I don't trust them..
And so you are without sin Mick? That is a pretty high and mighty perch you've created for yourself there. I wonder what a police investigation would uncover about you. But no need to wonder. It is only a matter of time.
Jake..what evidence do I have that they are a joke..ha ha.. What is their position on the Carp Water District one hundred million dollar debt, and request for a water rate increase for employee salaries and COLAs? I haven't heard a peep about that..is it because a member of the CWD board also is an advisory member of the SBCTA? just wondering...
And what do you do Mick? besides sit and rot in your Carpinteria "vilage" ...why don't you get a job for god's sake? You are a waste of life and a drain on society. If you were a horse you would be put out to pasture...if you were a dog, you'd be put to sleep.
a police investigation?? oh puleeze, bring it on Copper! "Mick, you're under arrest for..satire! blogging! talking dirty! exposing hypocrites!".... forty years in da slammer
Endangered your life by drunk driving? I have seen almost every single elected official in my county drink and drive, both democrats and republicans. Go to any big dinner/event and you will see them all drinking and then getting in a car driving!!! Yeah, this one got caught and handled it better than most would.
Get over it Mick...everyone else has. What has it been???? 3 years???
BTW, speeders endanger lives too...how many elected officials have gotten speeding tickets?
Hey Mick, You have opined on a lot of stuff on this freakish blog. But I haven't read anything re your position on necrophilia. It must be because you support it.
SB Woman..I will never enable drunk drivers..or make excuses for them..just stay off the road!!
Hey Mick, you look like the guy who played the land lord in that hilarious movie The Big Lebowski...go check it out. He was a homely, odd acting, middle aged wallflower too.
so then you shouldn't make any excuses for any elected officials in this county...as I have seen EVERY SINGLE ONE of them drive after drinking!
Mick, you should throw the first stone...since you are without sin!
SB Woman..you have seen EVERY SINGLE ONE drive drunk and crash their car, at a high rate of speed, and you sat there, doing nothing??
mick, how do you know what speed he was going? were you in the car? he paid his debt to society...paid back the fire department, paid a huge fine and now serves on a non profit board to help reduce driving under the influence. What have you done to address this issue? Go fuck yourself!
Did I say I saw them all crash their cars at a high rate of speed? I said I have seen them ALL drink and then get in a car and drive!
BTW, I don't recall the councilman you were speaking of was driving at a high rate of speed. I read the papers and reports...
Oh, and another BTW...I have seen his Mercedes...it isn't a 60K one.
touched a little nerve,did I?
Now Now SB Woman..no need to accuse people of such things..that's why Comment Moderation is on!
i have seen it with my own eyes...maybe you are at the bars with her??? Interesting this is the one post you won't publish!
I think you're seeing double SB Woman...your deleted post was too specific..you wanna start rumors, start your own blog!
whatever Mick...now we know where you stand...if you hate drunk drivers so much, you should really do your homework!
SB Woman...no no no! I love drunk drivers!!
I think you are missing a post Mick...too reasonable for your hysterics? Facts are stubborn things...aren't they?
Where is my post Mick?
ANON..I deleted one post from SB Woman..what are you talking about? Repost it..I'll print anything except death threats,or weird accusations without merit..really!
wait mick...you accuse some as driving 60K cars...isn't that a accusation without merit? Since it isn't a 60K car? double standard?
SB Woman..
accuse:v- to charge with an error or offense; to bring charges against. Driving a Mercedes is not an offense regardless of my price point reference, unless...they happen to drive it off a cliff high on weed... you must learn not to take everything so literally...geez louise
SB Woman, interesting comments..which I saved but won't post..and will check out...but, the nature of your accusations is gossip..hearsay...(Greka spilling oil and lying about it is not gossip, unless they find the phantom sabotuer, then I'll apologize to Mikey).
Now, your story could be ripe for satire, which is the point of this blog, but it must be based on real incidents, like Dr. Laura recently being caught cheating in a bunch of yacht races....I don't blame myself if she's dishonest..I just point out the folly and hypocrisy..
so I'll see what I can find out...unless I get bored
Mick, you got me interested enough to go to the SBCTA Web site. You may be right about the relationship between the News-Press and this organization.
At the SBCTA Web site I found a reprint of a story written by Marci Wormser. What a disappointment. A real reporter would have gone to City Hall, obtained the contracts and summarized the key points for readers, then gotten the point-counterpoint from Lanny Ebenstein and Marty Blum. Instead, Ms. Wormser uses for her main source of information a critic with a political agenda. This story comes across like a rewritten press release with a few comments from Mayor Blum tossed in to make it appear balanced. If this isn't bias then it's certainly shoddy reporting.
I wonder if the SBNP knows the reporter's article has been posted?
According to the newspaper:
"Use of the Santa Barbara News-Press masthead, flag or logo is prohibited. All material must carry the message: Reprinted with permission from the Santa Barbara News-Press."
At www.sbcta.org, the article has something that looks like a masthead over it, and there's no mention of reprint permission.
Didn't the News-Press go after some other Internet sites for using the newspaper's articles without pre-approval?
The Animal Rescue Team also runs stories from the News-Press on its Web site. The stories show up with the News-Press masthead and no mention of reprint rights.
Is this a double standard? Wendy's "enemies" get taken to court while her "friends" get a free pass?
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