New Orleans Charity to Host Democrat Convention Party

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After months of planning for two dozen parties to fete the 56 delegations to the Democratic National Convention — and facing financial difficulties — the city's host committee is scrapping those parties and holding one big bash.

Friends of New Orleans, a charity formed to help that city recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, is paying for the party, and for a concert with New Orleans-style food at the Fillmore Auditorium afterward for the 6,000 delegates and their guests on Aug. 24, the Sunday before the convention opens.

Traditionally, a convention city stages several parties to welcome the state delegations. Through the protracted Democratic primary season, Denver's host committee has been struggling to meet its fundraising obligations.

"This should save us some money," said host committee spokesman Chris Lopez.

So, an IRS recognized charitable organization is going to make a huge donation to the Democrat party rather than spend that money for the purpose intended when it was given to them by donors. Now I'm sure the charity considers this an investment in the hopes that even more money will be funneled to their organization and others to help New Orleans by the Democrats, but I doubt that any charity could get away with a similar expenditure to a Republican function.

The IRS needs to take a good long look at this.

UPDATE: According to Rush the Friends of New Orleans is an organization run by Democrat activists James Carville and Donna Brazile. Friends of New Orleans is little more than a Dem front group.

UPDATE 2: It just gets better. The following is directly from the "charity's" website:

We are looking for a million friends to declare their support for New Orleans and surrounding parishes.

Friends of New Orleans is a private, non-profit, non-partisan, membership organization for people in the U.S. and abroad who care about the region. Our mission is to advocate for New Orleans and its surrounding parishes, inform people of those key issues that are shaping the national debate and decision making of the rebuilding effort, link individuals who want to help with the communities in the devastated areas and motivate people to take part in the rebuilding effort.

Just how much rebuilding of New Orleans will be done with the money that's going to be thrown at the Democrats so they can have their welcoming party in Denver? How many of those "million friends" will be happy to know that their donations are being used this way?