{"id":2195,"date":"2004-07-23T11:32:38","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T16:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2195.html"},"modified":"2004-07-23T11:32:38","modified_gmt":"2004-07-23T16:32:38","slug":"the-christian-coalition-slips-even-further-into-irrelevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-christian-coalition-slips-even-further-into-irrelevance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christian Coalition slips even further into irrelevance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is getting embarrassing. A few months ago, we learned that the Christian Coalition was having trouble paying its bills and is <a href=\"http:\/\/home.hamptonroads.com\/stories\/story.cfm?story=67786&#038;ran=147201\">facing a lawsuit<\/a> from a Virginia firm that helped the group struggle through a series of self-inflicted scandals.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the Coalition&#8217;s hometown newspaper asked why the Coalition hadn&#8217;t paid its bills, a spokesman &#8220;would not elaborate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s happening again. As my friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.au.org\/2004\/07\/christian_coali.html\">Americans United noted<\/a> yesterday, an Oklahoma direct mail company has taken the group to court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfw.com\/mld\/dfw\/news\/local\/9173887.htm\">over an unpaid bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The nonprofit Christian Coalition of America is being sued in Tarrant County in an $87,000 dispute with an Oklahoma direct mail company.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How the mighty have fallen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}