Headquartered right here in North Florida, with 500 employees, "Wounded Warrior Project® is a group that "bears watchin,'" as they say in East Tennessee, focused on high salaries and marketing more than on helping veterans, it appears: read The New York Times investigation here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/us/wounded-warrior-project-spends-lavishly-on-itself-ex-employees-say.html?_r=0
The Wounded Warrior Project has rightly been criticized by The New York Times, Tampa Bay Times, Center for Investigative Reporting, CBS News, Jacksonville Business Report and the Daily Beast for firing ethical employees and wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on travel, four-star hotels and big salaries for its executives, led by a lawyer who is not a veteran, while doing little for wounded veterans.
Based here, with local government support from Republican elected officials, seeking in 2014 by unanimous uncritical vote from St. Johns County Commission some $500,000 in "Industrial Development" tax abatement for its 500 employee North Florida headquarters, now in Jacksonville.
Naturally, our haughty, hubristic all-Republican St. Johns County officials have fallen over backward to support the project, with a pledge of $500,000 if its 500 employees were to move here as part of "economic development."
It's our money.
P.S. The Wounded "Wounded Warrior Project®" is now a St. Augustine Record online advertiser, perhaps hoping to buy favorable impressions in advance of any investigation by The Record and T-U of the dodgy locally headquartered charity.
More later.
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"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."- Major General Smedley Butler (1935).
I remember when they came a looking for money and I had the inside on these phonies. The WWP thought they were going to get St Johns County. I spoke loud and clear about them not being fit to get our money.
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