Even before its feud over the national anthem with President Trump, the NFL Players Association wasn’t on the same political team as many of its fans, judging from its contributions to leftist advocacy groups.
Tax documents released by 2ndVote show the NFLPA donated $5,000 in 2015 to the Center for Community Change Action, a group active in the anti-Trump resistance and bankrolled by a host of liberal foundations, including top Democratic donor George Soros’s Foundation for Open Society.
A member of the AFL-CIO, the NFLPA also contributed in 2013 and 2015 to Working America, the AFL-CIO’s community affiliate, which Open Secrets said spent $1 million in 2016 to defeat Trump.
Working America has since mobilized against the Republican tax-cut framework, denouncing it as the “Trump tax scam.”
The NFLPA contributed $5,000 in 2014 to Jobs with Justice, another pro-union group backed by Soros, and $5,000 in 2013 to the progressive Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy.
The NFLPA donations from 2013, 2014 and 2015 were made before Mr. Trump was elected.
Other NFLPA charitable contributions went to a mix of groups supporting veterans, medical research and youth, including the Wounded Warrior Project, the Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins, Active Minds, and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington.
The Center for Community Change, whose 2015 annual report lists Planned Parenthood as a donor, plans to honor Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer at its Oct. 12 awards dinner recognizing “heroes on the front lines of resistance.”
We will honor @TomSteyer of @NextGenAmerica at our #ChangeChampions awards on Oct. 12! Join us for the celebration: https://t.co/qk2PmANN4V pic.twitter.com/2hJ8y6f8ps
— Cntr for Comm Change (@communitychange) October 4, 2017
The CCCA has also received millions from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Ford Foundation, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
“Clearly, ‘social activism’ by NFL players includes aligning with George Soros and other liberal organizations like Planned Parenthood in support of the left’s agenda,” said 2ndVote, a conservative watchdog group.
The NFLPA issued a statement in support of players who have protested racial injustice by sitting or taking a knee during the national anthem after Trump suggested in a Sept. 22 speech that team owners should fire those who refuse to stand.
NFLPA president Eric Winston said he was “extremely disappointed” in the president’s remarks.
“The comments were a slap in the face to the civil rights heroes of the past and present, soldiers who have spilled blood in countless wars to uphold the values of this great nation and American people of all races, ethnicities, genders and sexual orientations who seek civil progress as a means to make this country, and this world, a better place,” said Winston in a Sept. 23 statement.
An estimated 200 players sat or knelt during the national anthem the following weekend, while only about 50 did so last weekend.
In a joint statement, the NFL and NFLPA said they met Tuesday to discuss “the important issue of social activism by NFL players,” but 2ndVote urged them to call a halt to the political advocacy.
“With television audiences declining every week and fans growing increasingly tired of the disrespect of the flag, the league and the players’ union would find it in their best interest to end the liberal activism and focus on football,” said 2ndVote. “After all, millions are finding it in their best interest not to watch the NFL at all.”
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bet you money that you will not hear about this on espn or fox sports.
And i bet not one of those ove paid hacks gave any of their OWN BLOODY money..
The NFLPA, in bed with the communist George Soros. I am sure if they start flying the Communist flag (the hammer and sickel) at the NFL games, the black players that have taken a knee for our National Anthem, will stand for the Communist flag!
When exactly are we going to arrest George Soros? This is long overdue.
He backs these protests, they turn ugly, and people die. And then he keeps backing them. Isn’t that accessory to premeditated murder? How is this remotely legal?
If nothing else he should be arrested for encouraging and inciting seddition..
You are exactly right. Soros (not his real name) IS a communist. While we allow this low-life to live here, to disrupt everything traditionally American, is a mystery. But then, I have no idea why we still trade with China.
THE NFL I USE TO KNOW FROM CHILD HOOD TO DATE:
AFTER SEEING THAT A LOT OF THE NFL PLAYERS ARE JOINING GEORGE SORO’S, A WELL KNOWN ANTI AMERICAN, THAT HAS MANY RADICAL GROUPS THAT ARE TRYING TO TEAR DOWN OUR COUNTRY. I HAVE NO MORE USE AT ALL OF THE NFL.
NEVER THOUGHT THE NFL WOULD TURN AGAINST THEIR COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE THAT DIED TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS AND OUR CONSITITUTION IN THE WARS THAT WE HAVE HAD.
And this is why, EVEN IF the NLF grows a pair and stopps all this kneeling nonsense, i WILL NEVER GO BACK to being a fan..
Just keep taking a knee and let’s see how long before you’ll playing for free!
The black population here in my hometown of St. Louis shoots and kills one another every single night including a 2 year old baby near the Eades bridge the other night at 11pm. Really – a 2 year old in the back seat of a car at 11pm in the worst neighborhood? They certainly weren’t on a run for formula. Yet the people are still rioting, blocking interstates and smashing store windows because a white cop shot a black criminal. I’m not sure the cop WAS innocent – but I’m very sure the criminal who shot the 2 year old baby wasn’t either. They won’t march for the baby. I’m 64 years old and in my lifetime, for whatever reason I haven’t met too many SMART black people. Just sayin…
Money, money, money … G. Soros has it and is using it to tear down the USA. NFL owners and “take a knee players” are self made useful idiots of the “Soros Ghost Party”. Fools one and all.
No matter what they SAY their protests are about, this is proof that they are lying sacks of excrement, and what it is ABOUT is America-hating, DISLOYAL people committing sedition and TREASON against their OWN country and our President, and throwing in with George Soros who has come right out and SAID he hates this country, and wants a civil war/revolution to take us down. And THESE PUKES are more than EAGER to help him, including throwing MONEY from their union into his subversive pot.
WHEN is SESSIONS going to label antifa, BLM and THESE JERKS as the DOMESTIC TERRORISTS they ARE, and charge that evil old DEVIL, SOROS with financing domestic terrorism and SEIZE all his money and property? If he stops paying antifa, they won’t have the means to travel around the country starting trouble–INCLUDING the little Civil War/Communist-style REVOLUTION they are planning to launch on Nov. 4th. (And we SHOULD consider the possibilty that they’ll jump the gun on that, because WHY would they be stupid enough to give us advance warning?)
But here’s a point they oughta consider: Do they REALLY think the REST OF US are just going to LIE DOWN and let them overthrow our government and take over the country? Our government, and for that matter, us Trump supporters are NOT just armed with baseball bats, our OWN waste and whatever ELSE we can grab. We’ve got GUNS, and lot of them. So does the government. The government has tanks. Do these simian FOOLS think they’re gonna stop a TANK by flinging their own POO at it like the DEMENTED MONKEYS they are? They’ve shown themselves to be COWARDS and BULLIES. Methinks you SHOOT a few of these SOBs DEAD, and they’ll run like the scared little SNOWFLAKES they ARE!
Teabag, unfortunately, YES I do feel they believe a lot of us will ‘sit by the sidelines, and let them take us over’..
CAUSE FOR YEARS they have been proven just that.. We will sit by quietly while they take and take, little by little our country..