Why is it that the leadership of these far-left groups, these agitators, these rioters, always seem to be riding the nonprofit gravy train? They like to wave signs showing an upraised fist, but for truth in advertising purposes, they should take a page from Clint Eastwood and portray a fist full of dollars instead.
Case in point: Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of the organizers of last Sunday's Cities Church invasion in St. Paul, Minnesota, has take in around a cool million in non-profit cash over the last six years, and has been raking in a fat salary while so doing.
Far-left agitator Nekima Levy Armstrong, who was one of the organizers of the storming of a Minnesota church to protest ICE on Sunday, raked in over $1 million during six years leading a Minneapolis civil rights nonprofit that addresses anti-poverty issues.
Armstrong, whose website identifies her as a civil rights lawyer and "scholar-activist," helped to organize the storming of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday.
In a Facebook post, she claimed that one of the church’s pastors is a leader at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The demonstration is one of many throughout the Twin Cities in protest of the federal government’s surge of immigration enforcement officials to crack down on widespread fraud taking place in the state.
Her nonprofit raked in a million over six years; she's nowhere near the top of the Guinness Book of World Records list for "most cash scammed by a left-wing nonprofit," not by a long shot, but she sure paid herself a nice "living wage."
Here's the onion:
Armstrong, who is currently the founder and CEO of a cannabis company called Dope Roots, led the nonprofit as executive director for at least six years, from 2019 through 2024, according to tax filings by the Wayfinder Foundation.
The 2024 tax filing shows that despite the foundation being dedicated to giving grants to anti-poverty community initiatives, it awarded just $158,811 that year, while Armstrong brought in a salary of $215,726. She also took an additional $40,548 in health benefits, benefit plan contributions, and deferred compensation, according to the 2024 filing.
In 2023, the year that the nonprofit awarded $133,698 in grants, Armstrong brought in a salary of $170,726, plus $44,300 in other "compensation from the organization and related organizations," according to that year’s filing.
The year before reflects the same pattern, with Armstrong bringing in $175,000 in compensation, plus an estimated $33,126 in other compensation, while the organization gave just $161,325 in grants, per the 2022 filing.
That's a lot of cash for someone who is (bet on it) an "anti-capitalist."
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The hypocrisy, it is deep with this one. Now, the entire episode of this church invasion isn't over; I'd bet money that we haven't heard the last of this from the folks at Cities Church, who don't appear to be taking this whole thing lying down. More power to them. Maybe the IRS will take a thorough look at Armstrong's finances, as well as those of her cannabis company, her nonprofit, and any potential connections between the two. Given the nature of this particularly egregious offense, trying to intimidate people while they are at church, that's so far beyond the pale that these agitators can't even see a glimmer in their rearview mirror.
It never fails, does it? When one of these left-wing causes du jour pops up, whoever steps up as the self-proclaimed leaders are always skimming something off the top. Whenever these things are getting fired up, these people's first reaction always seems to be one from a famous movie quote: Show me the money.
And they say we're the greedy ones.
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