Brett Favre's daughter plays volleyball for the University of Southern Mississippi. The same Brett Favre that was supposed to give speeches and appearances to help the poor in Mississippi (he didn't do the appearances but was apparently paid almost $1 M for them).
Well they needed a new volleyball arena. TANF chipped in $5M for it. Also Favre is an investor and director for a company that produces a nasal spray to help concussions. The company got $2M of TANF funds as well.
The Mississippi Community Education Center, a nonprofit that receives a majority of its budget from taxpayer dollars intended to help people out of poverty, provided most of the funding for the volleyball center through an upfront five-year sublease agreement with the University’s athletic foundation. The nonprofit owner, Nancy New, sat on the athletic foundation’s board. The university modified plans to the facility, called the Wellness Center, so that it would include office space for the organization.
One of the university’s celebrated alumni, former NFL quarterback Brett Favre, was credited in local news reports with raising funds to build the $7 million center. Favre’s daughter plays volleyball at Southern, this year on the beach volleyball team. University spokesperson James Coll said in a statement that individual donors, in addition to the $5 million from the nonprofit, contributed to the construction.
However, Davis did not make New report how her organization spent the money — now more than $65 million since 2016, according to a review of state agency expenditure reports.
The Mississippi Community Education Center also allegedly gave $2.15 million of Mississippi welfare money to a concussion research and medical device company called Prevacus and its affiliate PreSolMD, according to the indictments against New and her son Zach New.
Favre invested in Prevacus, sat on its advisory board in 2014 and has publicly endorsed the company, according to Prevacus releases and news reports.
https://mississippitoday.org/2020/02/27/welfare-program-paid-5-million-for-new-volleyball-center/
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You really want to get angry. Here is the spending on Mississippi TANF funds. 5% to poor people. The rest for middle class welfare?
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In 2018, Mississippi spent about
$135 million in federal and state
funds under the Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families (TANF) program. It spent 5
percent of these funds on basic
assistance, generally as cash assistance to
TANF families. In 2018, Mississippi ranked
48th among the states and the District of
Columbia for percent of TANF funds spent on
basic assistance.
https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/tanf_spending_ms.pdf
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