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I'm not sure I understand what you think is going to come of these board memebers. It appears to me when looking at it that its is a futher indictment of Cohen and not a path to exhonerate him.

Board members have a fudicary repsonsibility to protect the organization and not the CEO of the organization. All the board members which are now gone, were recommended by Cohen to sit on the board. Dont forget this fact. Although Cohen's timeline is wrong, none of his 'supporters' left prior to him abruptly withdrawing his bid. But, the fact that he says his supporters were gone from the board in my opinion seems to be an admission that he did not recommend those board memeber with the best of intentions. In hindsight maybe, he placed them there to protect his interest and maybe have them help him mask his activity. This seems to show a little forethough, or maybe pre-mediation on Cohens part that he felt he had to have supporters on a board. It is something i never thoughto of before, but maybe something that should be considered. Maybe he thought he could get his way regardless of its legality? Should not board members support the laws and charter of the non-profit.

It is my personal feeling when i see a pix on facebook of one board member sitting in Mitchs lap at a bar and others comment underneath, Oh look its the Overload, Maybe its time for them to go becasue its obvious they are not there for the non-profits best interest, which is what board members are compelled to do.

This is all in my own opinion.

Anyway, these people were ask to leave or voted out because of their lack of committment to the non-profit best interest goals. Two left because they could not meet the time commitments, two were asked to leave, and subsequently voted out. Nothing more nothing less.

It's probably best said if you post nothing at all. Your path of incredulous remarks is astounding. You come up with lunacy, mind numbing attacks that you think MC had a master grand plan. Who knew there were so many preposterous

ways of thinking and then trying to pen them to others.

"Once a prostitute... " not necessarily always one.

I question how well the information and sources for this article were checked out before publicly damning someone.

Which article? MC..

I'd have to say once a pro, always a pro. Just my opinion, which ....

Please tell me this is a different individual than in the story:

http://www.hcdistric...lic/Search.aspx

choose the "criminal" tab

for defendant, enter "harris, jacqueline p"

search, then click on the link under "style"

a new window will open, then click on the "Criminal History" tab

Not a bit shocked. She needs to lower herself from that imaginary pedestal she thinks she is sitting upon.

Why would Cohen even try to get HAAC to pay for electricity for the First Street Art Market thing? If that's his thing, why not just fund that out of his booth rentals in there?

If I remember correctly MC is on facebook. Why not ask him directly? Seems odd that you are so invested in Mitch and an event that took place well over a year ago.

Anyone can contact him and I'm certain he'd reply, the only ones hiding are the people slandering MC.

It is clear you have not done sufficient background research into what tax-exempt non-profits can and cannot do when putting on events. There is no such thing as a "non-profit party." There are only non-profit organizations. Non-profit organizations can put on events to make a profit. It is what they can and cannot do with that profit that is the distinction.

Non-profits are organizations that apply with the IRS and Texas Comptroller for tax exempt status because they agree that their members/directors (or anyone) will not have an ownership interest in the entity that will entitle them to a distribution of the entity's net income like a shareholder in a for-profit business. For the IRS, non-profits have to fit within one of the six different kinds of organizations that can be a non profit (501©1-6). You can't form a tax exempt entity to allow you to drink beer and go to strip clubs with your friends on weekends. Non-profits can hold events to raise funds for themselves or contribute to others. Non-profits can use the funds raised to pay for expenses incurred in putting on the events, to pay the expenses of the organization, or for whatever purpose the non-profit was organized for.

Non-profits can hire their own directors and officers to put on events and compensate them with the income generated by the event. Non-profits can hire for-profit event organizers to put on events for them and even pay them on a contingeny fee based on a percentage of the event's profit (very common).

HAAC and HHMA are both non-profit organizations. HAAC is a 501©3 and HHMA is a 501©6. As you know, donations to a c3 are tax deductible, donations to all the other c1-2; 4-6 are not. But they are still both non-profit organizations.

Subject to proper internal procedures to approve the transaction (most non-profit bylaws have provisions on approval of transactions with interested directors/officers requiring approval of a majority of non-interested directors), HAAC could certainly contract with Cohen's arts market to provide art vendors at WLN 2011, just as they would contract with a for-profit printing company to provide maps, traffic control equipment, tents and tables or any other good or service the event needed.

The argument that Cohen was "using" a non-profit to generate a profit is silly. It happens all the time. It is called contracting with vendors. Cohen's relationship with his art market for-profit business, according to Cohen, was disclosed and approved by the HAAC board.

Just because it looks bad doesn't mean that it is. The issue should have been fully researched before dragging this guy's name through the mud. HP should have talked with a non-profit attorney, CPA or tax attorney to get their opinion. HP could have probably even got a generic statement of the rules from a public info officer at the IRS. If they saw an issue, then fine. Go to print. But that obviously did not happen.

I am no specialist in the area and could be wrong. But, I have looked at these issues before and consulted with some people who are specialists. That is way more than the author did and is my problem with the story.

Very well said and I agree with your entire post.

I would like to add that I shouldn't have included a few words that I posted, as I agree hearsay is just that. There's no known credibility behind it.

I know Mitch very well. Sounds like he made a lot of mistakes, and perhaps he learned from them. He needed a lot more help and better understanding in various directions. However, with the turnout, if it were that bad, would we not have heard about this sooner?! Not a year after the fact. It certainly doesn't smell kosher imo.

Okay, now we have unsourced claims of anti-semitism from a poster who registered an account 4 hours ago.

Of course Kyle, registering means I'm a troll. I get it. I have no idea whether the owner of BBR carries those thoughts or not. Which is why I said it was from elsewhere, a source, hearsay. Doesn't matter imo, she's a nasty, vicious person.

while I'm at it, perhaps johnlo needs to get laid, maybe it'll help him relax.

Accuracy involves a lot more than correctly reporting what the lady who runs the Boom Boom Room said. Lomax makes a big stink about how much Cohen wanted to get paid and the fact that Cohen also wanted to make money off of his arts market. But, Lomax does not provide the proper context. First, 22k is not a lot of money compared to what professionals would charge. I have directed much smaller events on a voluntary basis. It was a ton of work to get a small event (500-1000 people) put together. Getting vendors, the City permitting and volunteers set up took @20 hours a week for @4-6 weeks. WLN is a huge and complicated event. I am sure that it was a 24/7 job the last few weeks leading up to it. Given that there are very few people who can ditch their day job to dedicate themselve to directing an event like WLN, it is only fair that the person hired get a premium just for actually being available to do it. Second, Cohen makes money doing his arts market once a month all year long. Why shouldn't he be able to do that during WLN? A 501©3 could have simply hired Cohen to bring his for profit arts market to WLN as part of the entertainment for the evening, no different than hiring the loud bands on 19th street. People only got squeemish when Cohen presented it in conjunction with him getting paid to direct the event. One organization got over-lawyered and balked at it instead of working with Cohen to structure it to be legal. But Lomax thinks all of this is the devil's work because he did not take the time to understand the issues. Instead, if someone said "this looks bad", he reported that instead of trying to actually understand if it actually was bad.

^Exactly, and then some.

Reading that Jlomax is the best reporter around, I'm scared of what bad reporting would look like.

His wishes? Yeah, ok.

As for his day job, don't know, don't care.

rlf715 thanks for the post. John is beyond incompetent with his so called story. He had a few bones to pick with Cohen, and should have left it off his story, a pathetic attempt at that. This crazed lunatic that owns BBR is a jew hater (a sources words, not mine). She also isn't pleased with other types of individuals, be it their skin color or whatnot.

Mitch Cohen never made 27 k, end of story.