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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 07:44 PM Sep 2013

A victim of GOP Obamacare sabotage speaks out

"I find the letter quite offensive," says Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the Ohio Association of Food Banks, which received a $1.9 million grant. "It is shocking. It is absolutely shocking." [...]
"Was this an attempt by members of the committee to basically stop and slow down the navigator process?" Hamler-Fugitt says. "We’re going to stop now and pull together voluminous documents to provide back to the committee?"

Some of those documents don't yet exist, she says. "We weren't required to provide position papers, salary ranges, privacy policies or procedures. You don’t do that until you know that you got the award." [...]

"It's going to be very, very time consuming at the very time we're trying to get our [organization running]. No one’s even been hired yet," Hamler-Fugitt adds. "Not one penny has been drawn on this grant." Some of the smaller nonprofits that are part of the food bank’s network of local organizations slated to do the outreach, she says, may withdraw from the program entirely.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/05/1236577/-A-victim-of-GOP-Obamacare-sabotage-speaks-out

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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
1. Lady that $1.9 million grant is for food banks, not to pay your salary ranges.
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 08:17 PM
Sep 2013

no wonder the small non profit food banks pull out of your 'business' start-up', you hogged all the grant money and sitting on it.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
2. Did you bother reading the article, or are you just here to parrot rightwing garbage for
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 08:55 PM
Sep 2013

our benefit?

AnotherDreamWeaver

(2,850 posts)
3. you might read the article, none of the money has been gotten, just granted for use.
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 09:49 PM
Sep 2013

The GOP is trying to stop them from working with it.

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