Washington Examiner
Amid staff disruptions and swirling questions about its finances, the foundation created to honor the “Father of the Constitution” is scrambling to mark Constitution Day on Saturday with two woke, anti-Constitution panel discussions.
As detailed in an investigative report here last week and also discussed by the Heritage Foundation’s Brenda Hafera and others , James Madison’s Montpelier Foundation has been subject to a hostile takeover led by leftists who appear to detest Madison and want American history to be told entirely through the lens of slavery. The new management has significantly downgraded the attention given to Madison himself and deemphasized the role and status of its once-thriving Center for the Constitution.
The turmoil has attracted plenty of attention, including a surprise visit to Montpelier this week by former Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen. And the foundation faces what, earlier this summer, was a $576,000 shortfall from expected income while also facing a combination of bond payments and $1.66 million in “unfunded liabilities,” which appears to be the “borrowing” of restricted donations to use for operational expenses instead.
