This is getting embarrassing. A few months ago, we learned that the Christian Coalition was having trouble paying its bills and is facing a lawsuit from a Virginia firm that helped the group struggle through a series of self-inflicted scandals.
A local law firm has asked a judge to garnishee the assets of the Christian Coalition of America to collect more than $75,000 in unpaid legal costs.
The order asks that $75,530.96 be paid by June 25 to the Virginia Beach law firm of Huff, Poole and Mahoney. The amount comes from $63,958.44 in unpaid bills, along with $11,512.52 in interest and $60 for garnishment costs.
When the Coalition’s hometown newspaper asked why the Coalition hadn’t paid its bills, a spokesman “would not elaborate.”
And now it’s happening again. As my friends at Americans United noted yesterday, an Oklahoma direct mail company has taken the group to court over an unpaid bill.
The nonprofit Christian Coalition of America is being sued in Tarrant County in an $87,000 dispute with an Oklahoma direct mail company.
Global Direct of Tulsa, Okla., filed the lawsuit in Tarrant County civil court recently, saying the coalition failed to provide a mailing list to the company to conduct a mass mailing solicitation program.
Global Direct said in court documents that the coalition had promised to use as much of the proceeds as necessary to pay off an $87,000 debt outstanding with the Oklahoma company. The suit says the debt has not yet been paid.
How the mighty have fallen.