We’re having our fund drive because, tragically, over 100 women die every day from this deadly disease, many because their breast cancer was not caught in time. It’s Cathy Sanders with the American Breast Cancer Coalition PAC. On a recent afternoon, here’s the pitch I heard after the phone rang–showing a Nevada number on the caller ID–and I answered: And I’m in just one of the Silver State’s 1.25 million households. But it’s called me twice this year alone at the New To Las Vegas world headquarters. How big a player in Nevada telemarketing is ABCC-PAC, which lists an address in Washington, D.C.? I have no idea. But it never has done so, against ABCC-PAC or any of the dozens of faux charities likely making hundreds of thousands of similar calls a year to my fellow Nevadans. SOSO has the power to issue cease-and-desist orders and levy civil financial penalties. ABCC-PAC is not registered and never has been. Some call these outfits scam charities.Īt least in Las Vegas, where I live, ABCC-PAC gets away with this partly by flouting a Nevada law prohibiting fundraisers, including PACs, from soliciting in the state for, among other causes, “any … public health … purpose” without first registering with the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office (SOSO) and making financial filings. It’s counting on complete suckers at the other end of the phone line. That’s a political action committee that presents like a meritorious exempt organization as it cold-calls unsuspecting Mom and Pop donors, in Las Vegas and elsewhere nationally, with a slick pitch and a quick ask. The organization is what I call a faux charity. This conclusion is based on its own federal filings–under oath, no less!–showing that 0% was spent toward that worthy cause from the millions of dollars raised using outside vendors during its entire four years of existence.ĪBCC-PAC is itself a cancer, on society. Nor has the organization ever fought breast cancer institutionally in any real way. But ABCC-PAC has no employees, no volunteers and just one part-time board member/officer. The dictionary definition of “coalition” connotes some kind of plurality.

The grandly named American Breast Cancer Coalition PAC is, to put it mildly, a misnomer. **-Fundraisers that have called asking for money despite a critical article by me about them or an affiliate on one of my blogs Commentary/arts/ food/review

National Police and Troopers Association.

National Committee for Volunteer Firefighters PAC.

Law Enforcement for a Safer America PAC.

International Union of Police Associations AFL-CIO.

Breast Cancer and Women's Health Initiative.

Breast Cancer Research and Support Fund.

Association for Homeless and Disabled Veterans.

American Coalition for Crisis Relief PAC.

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