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No, because It does not answer what the “legal director program” is.

“It’s what you have been commenting on. ”

Its unsurprising that it doesn’t answer the question then.

I’d also like to know about hte “uncovering” of documents, of the headline that say this has been happening “under the table.” As far as I can tell they’re basically publically available, as the documents look like they’re a fax from the bar foundation that runs these funds, in reply to an inquiry.

It’s what you have been commenting on.

I don’t mean that in a bad way, but by definition I am just trying to show you what you may not know.

To view the Florida Bar Foundation’s records of grants awarded to the ACLU of Florida, please click here: http://www.reclaimamerica.org/download/FLBarFndn.pdf

June 27, 1997
$50,000 = ACLU of Florida / Legal Director Program

March 22, 1996
$95,500 = ACLU of Florida / Legal Director Program

March 17, 1995
$85,000 = ACLU of Florida / Legal Director Project

March 18, 1994
$85,000 = ACLU of Florida / Legal Director Project

March 19, 1993
$75,000 = ACLU of Florida / Legal Director Project

March 20, 1992
$95,000 = ACLU of Florida / Staff Counsel Project

November 30, 1990
$105,000 = ACLU of Florida / Staff Counsel Project

March 22, 1990
$10,000 = ACLU of Florida / Institution of Staff Counsel

March 21, 1986
$15,000 = ACLU of Florida / Legal Program

A portion of this money was used to help the ACLU establish its dangerous and very active legal program in Florida. And rather than helping the poor, the ACLU of Florida has waged a war against common decency, including:

opposing the “Women’s Right to Know Act” requiring abortionists to inform women of abortion risks http://www.aclu.org/ReproductiveRights/ReproductiveRights.cfm?ID=16850&c=222

opposing the President’s faith-based initiatives
http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/archive/2002/faith-basedprograms121202.cfm

opposing school choice programs
http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/archive/2002/voucherruling080502.cfm

opposing a Polk County Ten Commandments display http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/archive/2001/tencommandments.cfm

opposing “In God We Trust” posters in public schools http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/02/28/ingodwetrust.signs.ap

opposing prayer in Jacksonville schools http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/archive/2000/adlerruling0300.cfm

opposing Bible curriculum in Lee and Dade County schools http://www.aclufl.org/legislature_courts/legal_department/briefs_complaints/lee_complaint.cfm

opposing parental notification laws for minors seeking abortions http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/archive/2003/parentalrights071003.cfm

attempting to force Florida taxpayers to fund abortions under Medicaid http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/archive/2003/medicaiddcahearing.cfm

and opposing the statewide ban on gay adoption http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/index.cfm?action=viewRelease&emailAlertID=490

A: The Center for Reclaiming America for Christ has uncovered documents revealing that the Florida Supreme Court is responsible for helping to fund the ACLU of Florida — using interest from legal trust funds generated by unsuspecting home buyers, heirs, and legal awards and settlements. Between 1990 and 1997, the Florida Bar Foundation (FBF), a creation of the Florida Supreme Court, provided more than $600,000 to help pay the salary of the ACLU of Florida’s legal director.

Incredibly, the Florida Supreme Court approved these appropriations, despite the fact that the Court often issues rulings in cases argued by the ACLU’s legal director. One would assume that such funding would create a conflict of interest — but not in the eyes of the Court. In a letter faxed to the Center, the FBF admitted that every instance in which it offered funding to the ACLU of Florida, it was “specifically approved from time to time by the Supreme Court of Florida.”

A: The Mechanics of IOTA Accounts:

This is further evidence of the Court’s skewed ideological agenda. In 1956, the Florida Bar Foundation was established by the Florida Supreme Court in order to provide legal assistance to the poor. Sadly, at least in this case, the Court used the funds of unsuspecting Floridians to promote a radical ideological agenda.

In 1981, in an effort to increase the level of funding for the Foundation, the Florida High Court adopted the nation’s first IOTA (interest on trust account) program. Under the IOTA program, all monies that change hands via an attorney (i.e. home purchases, lawsuit awards, probate accounts, divorce settlements, etc.) are to be temporarily deposited in a pooled interest-bearing account. Chances are: If you settled a lawsuit, inherited money, or bought a home during the 1990’s, you probably helped to fund the radical agenda of the ACLU of Florida.

And this is no petty operation! The 2004 annual report of the Florida Bar Foundation noted that as of June 2004 there were 22,688 accounts worth more than $3.60 billion contributing interest to fund the Florida Bar Foundation. In turn, this publicly funded foundation has distributed more than $175 million to various organizations during the past twenty years.