ALIPAC: Following the Money Trail to Gheen’s Pockets
It’s not often that we agree with Jim Gilchrist, the founder of rabidly anti-immigrant Minuteman Project group. But we have managed to find common ground recently, especially where the White Pride group, ALIPAC (short for Against Latino Immigration Political Action Committee) is concerned.
Here is what Gilchrist had to say about William Gheen, the founder of ALIPAC:
William Gheen, I firmly believe, has no interest whatsoever in encouraging the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. ALIPAC is a fund raising company whose goal is to raise money off the latest frenzied trend…in this case, the immigration chaos. If there was more money to be made by supporting the pro-illegal alien invasion lobbyists, then he would probably be on that side of the argument…let the country be damned.
Gilchrist is not innocent either given he has supported child-killer Shawna Forde and personally fundraises for himself as well, without any action to show for it. But his attacks on Gheen are not without merit. You see, we have evidence from FEC filings that ALIPAC is simply an excuse for the delusional hate-mongering William Gheen to not go out and get a real job like a real American.
After whining and threatening to finally shut down his illegal activities throughout the month of November if he was not able to raise $25,000, Gheen finally reached his fundraising goal. FEC filings for 2010 show $57,870 in receipt and $56,387 in expenditure. Given ALIPAC is a PAC after all, how much did it spend on helping anti-immigrant candidates? A huge amount totaling $250. Gheen paid himself $19,218, spent $8,894 on a corporate payroll service, $3,007 on his treasurer and $2,800 on his media person. The rest of the expenses include payments for cable television, flights, and hotel rooms. Damn, maybe I should switch sides and swindle our supporters too.
His FEC filings for next year would be quite interesting. It is just too bad that his retired home-making donors are actually naive and stupid enough to actually give their hard-earned money (or rather, our social security taxes) to support Gheen’s extragavant lifetsyle. They would be better off forming their own PAC or donating to enforcement-only candidates directly. I almost feel sorry for them.
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Oh, my! This is fascinating. There's something almost balletic about the fracturing of this "movement" — and something very revelatory about its basic nature. If your underlying motto is "I've got mine, you get lost," it can scale up to an international level, or down to your best buddies.
And yes, it's disgraceful that this individual is bilking senior citizens. Maybe we could get AARP to write him up? They're rather good at documenting predators who scam elders.
Thanks for stopping by. We should send them a link. If you look through the donor list, you see that most people are retired and home-makers. What a shame.
And your posting this because? Let those fools send him money… and let him NOT spend it on trying to take innocent immigrants down. No reason to be posting this and letting his foolish supporters know he's running a scam.. screw them.
I disagree… it is good to expose this man. He is a fraudulent opportunist who does incredible damage to our communities and pretends to be a voice for "legal immigration" while at the same time spewing hate in every post.
The figures posted here about Gheen are inaccurate, only by the fact it is 2009 data and Willy hasn't completed his final filing.
This jackass pays himself $3500-4000 a month which is a yearly salary of $48,000 mas o menos.
In addition, he is using PAC funds to pay his personal cell bills, travel expenses and even spending $875 at clothes for his White Trash Tour of California earlier this year. (Don't know why he needed the clothes, his buddy Jeffy "Bikini Boy" Schwilk could probably loan him some of his)
Thanks for helping us expose this jackass for what he is. We're going to keep after him at http://immigrationclearinghouse.org until he and his lemmings go back under the rock they crawled out from.