Comments on: Nancy Cartwright Gives Another $500,000 To Valley Ideal Org

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 05:59:48 +0000

In reply to SadStateofAffairs. Mateo is not in the SO and is or was working at Management Success. He was arrogant and self important there when I knew him. Interesting that he went out 2D.

By: Aquamarine

Aquamarine — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:36:08 +0000

In reply to Aquamarine.

And I’d like to add that, as little as $25 seemed to me in those days, today I wouldn’t even consider parting with that much money for the Cof$.!

Today, it would bother me to give them even a dollar.

I’m serious. In some countries $1 is a lot of money, and $25 can feed a family of 4 for a month in the 3rd world. Even in America, it can come in handy.

I’m actually furious with myself that I gave these creeps anything. Vultures.

And, by the way, I’m not considered stingy by people who know me. Conceptually, I’m just as pissed at having given CoS $25 as I am at having given them over 5K. And if I’m feeling this way, God Almighty, I pity what’s in store for the Cartwrights, Wilsons, Duggans and other Whales when the day comes that they no longer can twist and turn from the truth, and have to confront what their donations did buy. Yuk.

By: Aquamarine

Aquamarine — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:04:52 +0000

In reply to Aquamarine. Edit: Didn't mean to type "m" after those first two dono amounts!

By: Aquamarine

Aquamarine — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:02:00 +0000

In reply to Cat Daddy.

Excellent data, Mike. Had to laugh as I read down the list of non-whale donations – $25m $50m $10 from Bruce Wiseman, that’s a hoot. All these tiny amounts reminded me of how when I was in and I couldn’t get out of attending an Ideal Org Fundraiser, I would just show up for a while, sit thru the various spiels, eat a little of the inevitable baked ziti to be polite, throw them $25 and get out of there as soon as possible, always with a sigh of relief which did not dispel my underlying, unexpressed resentment at having caved and attended in the first place. Lurkers, you Still-Ins and Under The Radars reading here, is this what you do now?

By: Cat Daddy

Cat Daddy — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:22:26 +0000

Damn you age fast in that church

By: zemooo

zemooo — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:16:52 +0000

So 5k only gets you 2 exclamation points but 500k will get you shit loads of !!!

The ‘strategic alliance’ between various mOrgs to share the whales is just another sign of dwindling membership and a few whales who spend anything to keep their ‘status’. Davy must be very certain of his level of control and manipulation on these whales. Done poorly and the whales escape, done well and you get Nancy Cartwright…

By: scnethics

scnethics — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:53:59 +0000

That’s over 88% of the total donated by less than 1 percent of the donors. I don’t think the final ratio for the whole project will be that skewed toward the whales, but it will be very skewed nonetheless. Without the whales, these things just do not happen!

On the flip side, as you say Mike, with this core group of whales, these projects can continue for a long time.

By: scnethics

scnethics — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:50:24 +0000

In reply to shelgold. This story is amazing on a few levels, but especially that this was not the end of your time in scientology.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:25:43 +0000

“First weekly…”

Now I know what the multiple exclamation points are all about.

Utter, agitated panic about how to be ‘upstat’ next week.

And the week after that.

And after that…

By: Espiritu

Espiritu — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:18:42 +0000

I am always happy to hear of someone making it in Hollywood because because there are many talented people who try and only a few succeed. Talent is a factor, but so is business acumen and luck. I don’t know much about Nancy Cartwright’s talents, but she definitely also got lucky with her 23 year role as the voice-over for Bart Simpson. Most celebrities acknowledge the luck factor and I hope that she does. It made her rich. She can now afford to donate a part of her fortune to buy a building for the IAS. That’s her right.
But she could have just as well paid for $5000 worth of auditing and auditing for 100 actors and actresses who are starting out and striving for success in Hollywood …..and the money still would have gone to the COS! Instead she decided to help buy a MEST building. Why? My guess is that she currently feels a need for a pat on the back from the SP who is bent on destroying Scientology more than she wants to help actual people to enhance their lives. Too bad.
Maybe one day she will wake up and say, “Doh!!”