Yeah as funny as this is...he is mistaken about nearly everything he claims, and I'm not talking about the telemarketer! I used to manage the Virginia State Troopers Association. Not sure if the same company is in charge of them now because it is a constant battle to keep a "project". Sometimes there is too much publicity, sometimes there is actually too much money raised and the union freaks out, sometimes not enough money is raised, etc. etc. The money does go to the Troopers Association, you write your checks to them... The State Troopers are a Union for the State Police. The problem is after paying the Telemarketing firm, the printers (had this dude listened he would have been told he would receive an ad for his business in the Virginia State Troopers Association Magazine in exchange for his donation) and other misc bills somewhere between 2 and 12% of the money goes to the actual "cause". Sometimes the cause is buying cameras for the troopers vehicles, sometimes it is a scholarship fund from a college in the state of the Troopers. Funny thing is the scholarships are often donated, they still get mentioned though. Very often (usually) the donated money goes to lobbyist to effect laws beneficial to the troopers.
75% of these State Troopers Associations are done through a place in the state of Minnesota (no matter what state the money is being raised for)called
Safety Awareness
750 Transfer Rd
St Paul, MN 55114
(651) 917-5300
Their parent company is the one that negotiates
the contracts. (can't spell the name! It is Cahlan Publishing maybe C-a-l-h-a-n Publishing ??? Something like that) They do the Trooper, Firefighters, Vietnam Vets, Vietnam Vets Benevolent Fund, County Sheriffs
(can't remember the name of their association) the Chief of Police, Peace & Police and others.....If you give to one you will be hit up by the next project in line until you just say no, and no and no...Bottom line, ANY ONE WHO CALLS YOU ON THE PHONE ASKING FOR DONATIONS IS A SCAM! I did it for years, I finally quit because I could not take the guilt, I was too good at my job....ripping people off with a silver tongue. My office raised over $1,000,000.00 in South Dakota in the mid to late 1990s(from an office in Richfield MN above a hardware store!)in 6 months. I got about $15,000.00 of that, my employees got about $100,000.00 between them, Safety Awareness got 15%, their parent company got about 3% (they get between 1 and 3% of thousands of "projects")and the South Dakota State Troopers Association FREAKED out on that kind of money and told us to stop. LOL They were used to raising $15,000.00 a year.
We did many states: Ohio, Alabama, Alaska, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Oregon, Mississippi, and more.
