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Rancher Who Fatally Shot Illegal Immigrant Booted from GoFundMe raises 350k on GiveSendGo
Posted on 2/16/23 at 9:42 am
Posted on 2/16/23 at 9:42 am
Booted from GoFundMe, Legal Defense Funds for Rancher Who Fatally Shot Illegal Immigrant Raise over $350,000 on GiveSendGo
https://thestarnewsnetwork.com/2023/02/16/booted-from-gofundme-legal-defense-funds-for-rancher-who-fatally-shot-illegal-immigrant-raise-over-350000-on-givesendgo/
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George Alan Kelly, a southern Arizona rancher, received over $350,000 in legal defense fund aid on GiveSendGo after being kicked off of GoFundMe for trying to raise money for his case.
Kelly is being charged with first-degree, premeditated murder for allegedly shooting an illegal immigrant on his property on January 30. GoFundMe took off multiple legal defense funds for Kelly because the company said these funds violated its terms of service about raising money “to cover the legal defense of anyone formally charged with an alleged violent crime.”
Jacob Wells, a co-founder of GiveSendGo, told The Arizona Sun Times, “We are happy that GiveSendGo has become the neutral platform for everyone needing to fundraise.” His sister and co-founder, Heather Wilson, added, “GiveSendGo stands committed to allow people to fundraise for legal activities no matter how volatile the political climate might be.”
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GiveSendGo, which is a Christian crowdfunding site, gained prominence for allowing fundraisers banned by GoFundMe that benefited Kyle Rittenhouse and the “Freedom Convoy” of truckers protesting Canada’s COVID-19 restrictions. While its founders have not experienced any fallout yet from hosting Kelly’s fundraisers, they did receive some backlash for the Freedom Convoy campaigns.
“There is currently a class action lawsuit being spearheaded by attorney Paul Champ against the Freedom Convoy organizers on behalf of some citizens in Ottawa,” Wells told The Sun Times. “They have recently requested that GiveSendGo and [myself] be added as a defendant to the $300 million claim.”
One of the GiveSendGo campaigns supporting Kelly started out with a goal of raising $25,000, increased it to $250,000, and has now brought in over $300,000. Shannon Pritchard, who launched the fundraiser, stated in the description, “[T]hey are holding this old farmer on 1 million dollar bail, which anyone can see is purely political. This will ruin the remaining years of this gentleman’s life, through no fault of his own.”
A second campaign, which has raised over $42,000, declared that “illegal aliens” have “repeatedly trespassed and harassed him … He is the one sitting in jail this morning! Not the illegal aliens.” Kelly’s wife Wanda started one of the campaigns, stating, “We are private people and are horrified about some of things being said about him in the media.”
https://thestarnewsnetwork.com/2023/02/16/booted-from-gofundme-legal-defense-funds-for-rancher-who-fatally-shot-illegal-immigrant-raise-over-350000-on-givesendgo/
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Posted on 2/16/23 at 9:43 am to loogaroo
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Rancher Who Fatally Shot Illegal Immigrant Booted from GoFundMe raises 350k on GiveSendGo
Posted on 2/16/23 at 9:46 am to loogaroo
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“GiveSendGo stands committed to allow people to fundraise for legal activities no matter how volatile the political climate might be.”
Posted on 2/16/23 at 9:49 am to loogaroo
Awesome
Posted on 2/16/23 at 9:53 am to loogaroo
Never has a site deserved boycotting more than GoF__Me
Never set up a charity or cause on it. Never give to one using through it.
Never set up a charity or cause on it. Never give to one using through it.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 9:54 am to loogaroo
This guy is charged with first degree premeditated murder after defending himself from drug smugglers, coyotes, sex traffickers, and a general Infiltration of the worst of the worst from every third world country on this planet. Meanwhile, the “just looking for an open library” are getting released on $25k bail after robbing, mugging, and stealing cars, burning businesses, and killing the people “Obama’s ‘if I had a son’” loot.
Our country is lost. Liberalism is a disease. Thank goodness for givesendgo and the patriots who are defending this American landowner.
Our country is lost. Liberalism is a disease. Thank goodness for givesendgo and the patriots who are defending this American landowner.
This post was edited on 2/16/23 at 9:56 am
Posted on 2/16/23 at 10:26 am to loogaroo
quote:Good for them.
GiveSendGo stands committed to allow people to fundraise for legal activities no matter how volatile the political climate might be.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 10:28 am to GhostOfFreedom
GofrickYou to GoFundMe. 
Posted on 2/16/23 at 10:31 am to loogaroo
Y'all love y'all's murderers, don't y'all?
Great Christians y'all are.
Y'all don't help the needy and y'all love murderers. par for the course
Great Christians y'all are.
Y'all don't help the needy and y'all love murderers. par for the course
Posted on 2/16/23 at 10:33 am to saint tiger225
quote:odd reaction. Personally, from what little we know thus far, I think this gentleman probably crossed the line and will be convicted of something.
Y'all love y'all's murderers, don't y'all? Great Christians y'all are. Y'all don't help the needy and y'all love murderers. par for the course
But he also has the right to raise money to defend himself. I fully support the website that is allowing him to do so.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 10:36 am to saint tiger225
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Y'all don't help the needy
It's the needy that ain't helping themselves. Go cry to someone else
Posted on 2/16/23 at 10:36 am to saint tiger225
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Y'all love y'all's murderers, don't y'all?
Great Christians y'all are.
Y'all don't help the needy and y'all love murderers. par for the course
Wierd flex. Not much rational thought behind it.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:00 am to saint tiger225
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Y'all love y'all's murderers, don't y'all?
Who’s been convicted of murder?
Last I checked, he’s innocent until proven guilty of anything.
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Great Christians y'all are.
What’s/Who’s a “great Christian?”
A big part of my faith is the acknowledgment that I’m a highly flawed, sinful being.
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Y'all don't help the needy and y'all love murderers. par for the course
Tell me more about whom I help and love ….
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:14 am to saint tiger225
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Y'all love y'all's murderers, don't y'all?
Who's y'all?
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:31 am to loogaroo
I don’t understand why “conservatives” continue to use GoFundMe. I guess they just don’t know.
This post was edited on 2/16/23 at 1:55 pm
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:15 pm to saint tiger225
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Y'all don't help the needy
Who are these needy people of which you speak
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:18 pm to loogaroo
Great post, I’m gonna give him some of my monthly allotted ammo money.
This post was edited on 2/16/23 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:21 pm to loogaroo
Met and talked to the marketing director of GiveSendGo at the March For Life.
Great people, great organization.
Great people, great organization.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:27 pm to GumboPot
I suggest that there has been no evidence that the rancher actually shot the illegal.
Information so far is that several illegals with guns and back packs, ran off his horse, agitated his dogs and pointed a rifle at him, which he responded by firing several shots in the air. Border patrol responded immediately and found no illegals alive or dead.
Rancher walking his dog several hours later, was lead by dog to dead illegal body in the bushes. Immediate call to Border Patrol and response confirmed.
Thats the public information. It's just as likely dead guy was smuggling cartel dope runners across the border and they got pissed when he lead them into a conflict, and killed the dead guy.
Law enforcement is hard hammering the ranch to make an example for the border ranchers to be afraid of the results of shooting under any condition.
Until there is ballistic info of game camera video, the rancher does have a right to be believed.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:34 pm to Trevaylin
quote:If the body was not found until later, at some distance from the home, it seems unlikely that the prosecutor would file charges before receiving the results of a ballistics test comparing slugs from Kelly's rifle and the slug from the corpse.
I suggest that there has been no evidence that the rancher actually shot the illegal.
And it also seems unlikely that charges would have been filed without a match.
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