Nancy Abudu

2019 was the year the SPLC paid 3.4 million dollars in response to defamation lawsuits. 2019 was the year that Charity Watch gave your organization an F rating. The SPLC has been labelled by the left-wing policy journal Current Affairs as an outright fraud that uses willful deception designed to scare liberals into writing checks. The progressive journalist Alexander Cockburn said this about SPLC: “I regard it, the Southern Poverty Law Center, collectively as one of the greatest frauds in American life.” 

Liberal death penalty abolitionist Stephen Bright refused to accept an award named after the founder of the SPLC, saying in his words, “The SPLC has long been run by a con man and a fraud.” That’s from a Harpers magazine article. Also in 2019, SPLC employees told the press, “We were part of a con and we knew it.” That’s in a New Yorker article, not exactly a right-wing journal. Are you concerned by any of this record of the organization that you worked for?

Abudu began to answer by using a tested Leftist technique: when asked an uncomfortable question, change the subject. “Senator,” she said, “what I’m glad that I didn’t hear in that litany is a complaint about the voting rights work that we’ve done, about the clients in the communities —” Yeah, and Hitler loved his dog. 

Hawley was having none of this, and brusquely interrupted Abudu to ask: “Are you concerned that Charity Watch gave you an F? That you had to pay 3.4 million dollars in response to defamation lawsuits? That you’ve been criticized – that your organization’s been criticized as a fraud and a con job, and that you work for an organization who says it’s their goal in life to completely destroy their opponents! None of that gives you any pause.”

There is more. Read the rest here.