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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-19-09 11:29 PM
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3. I was wrong -- they were in CA before CO
Here's an excerpt from a news story from 1990:

El Pomar Foundation has lured the nation's largest Christian radio ministry - and possibly 800 jobs - to Colorado Springs with a $4 million grant, foundation chairman William Hybl announced Thursday.

James Dobson's Focus on the Family - a 13-year-old Pomona, Calif.-based ministry that emphasizes traditional family values - plans to buy at least 50 acres of land along Interstate 25 using the grant, said Paul Nelson, executive vice president of Focus on the Family, in a telephone interview.

The ministry has a $27 million payroll, and Nelson said he expects about half its 750 employees to move to Colorado Springs. After the move, the ministry will hire 425 employees here, expanding
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  -Focus on the Family is opening an office in D.C. HopeOverFear  Apr-19-09 11:22 PM   #0 
  - wait  grasswire   Apr-19-09 11:24 PM   #1 
  - Really? that's news to me, they're making it seem like they've never been here  HopeOverFear   Apr-19-09 11:25 PM   #2 
     - I was wrong -- they were in CA before CO  grasswire   Apr-19-09 11:29 PM   #3 
  - So more anti-women and anti-gay people move into DC  sakabatou   Apr-19-09 11:31 PM   #4 
  - In fact, FotF needs to be investigated for tax fraud, evasion, illegal funding, electioneering etc  Hawkeye-X   Apr-19-09 11:34 PM   #5 
  - If they are looking for DC rental.  Hawkeye-X   Apr-19-09 11:36 PM   #6 
  - Well I wish the Neandertals would get out of CO!!!!!  ArtVandelay   Apr-19-09 11:37 PM   #7 
  - THEY can raise $$ for this but WE can't even raise enough 2 support our election integrity groups...  demodonkey   Apr-19-09 11:39 PM   #8 
  - so much just wrong with this picture  katanalori   Apr-19-09 11:44 PM   #9 
  - you ain't lyin  HopeOverFear   Apr-20-09 12:52 AM   #13 
  - Once they get to D.C.,  bumblebee1   Apr-20-09 12:37 AM   #10 
  - Well so much for separation of church and state.  Initech   Apr-20-09 12:49 AM   #11 
  - never played much in Washington.  underpants   Apr-20-09 12:52 AM   #12 
  - They're finally moving out of the White House?  no_hypocrisy   Apr-20-09 05:00 AM   #14 
  - Xitans do not deserve special treatment  and-justice-for-all   Apr-20-09 05:33 AM   #15 
  - F**kus On The Family...  cpompilo   Apr-20-09 06:43 AM   #16 
  - and Brian Lamb is having the vapors...  SoCalDem   Apr-20-09 06:45 AM   #17 
 

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