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#PR member associations like @PRSA need to include an acceptable alcohol-use policy for national leaders / volunteers, and even for staff. And then they need to enforce it. marybethwest.com/does-the-pr…

More photos from the public domain have been uploaded to the latest @PRSA exposé abt out-of-control expenses 💸 in deficit years, amid some PRSA Past Nat'l Chairs' demands & temper tantrums 😤 for their all-expenses-paid wine dinner at #PRSAICON. 🔗: marybethwest.com/prsa-past-c…

😑 <Sigh> #PRCA #UK #PR #lobbying #cash #collapse #Wadds @CompaniesHouse @metpoliceuk 🔗 marybethwest.com/new-prca-st…

Thanks to @africaprweek for this opportunity to join this year's conference and #PRethics panel... 🇰🇪 @marybethwest 🎙️

Arizona State's J-school had to jump through all kinds of DEI "compliance" hoops by the left-wing #ACEJMC mass comms accreditor, in order to pass DEI purity tests required for "reaccreditation." ACEJMC's Galloway @delAgate is wildly partisan & biased. acejmc.org/accredit/arizona-…

Wow. Talk about "obvious gaps"! ⬆️... ⬇️ @PRSA's 2026 Nat'l Nominating Cmte chaired by @Jabreu03 / Joseph Abreu of @PRSAGulfCoast failed to slate a Treasurer (not OK, given PRSA's long-term financial crisis 💸) nor any board director at all from either @prsatristate (home of @prsany) or @ECDPRSA District. 🤨 prsa.org/about/national-lead…

In fact, @UFJSchool's Del Galloway's partisan conflicts of interest are legion, w/ not only his overt #DEI pressures on @UF through his presidency of the #ACEJMC academic accreditor but also his being allowed as a UF alumnus himself to sign UF's own re-accreditation letter. ☠️

Pls check your records at @UFJSchool, @UF. They are rife with PR trade assoc @PRSA's + @Omnicom's "doubling down on #DEI" agenda. PRSA infiltrated UF's PR program years ago w/ DEI strong-arming in violation of #antitrust (like hinging #ACEJMC accreditation on DEI "compliance").

Ms. Spaeth is a @PRSA / @prsadallas member who appears to be endorsed by the association on its website, despite the #EpsteinFiles involvement / inconsistent claims, which is concerning. She writes "how to" pieces and speaks about PR and crisis comms via PRSA media and events.

Days after receiving @marybethwest's open letter 🧾 to Public Relations Society of America (@PRSA) National Chair @HPHarrell of @CARKW -- and about one year after PRSA pledged to "double down on #DEI" -- PRSA has opted not to respond to this open latter, while instead announcing publicly that PRSA will host on Jan. 26 a "Member Monday" webinar, on the topic of "Trust 😇 and Transparency." 😑 🛑 Clearly, PRSA has now chosen to lecture its own PR trade association members (many of them 🇺🇸 government- and military-employed), about the higher virtues of being open and honest -- as if rank-and-file members are the problem here -- when PRSA national leadership appears 100% resistant to being open or honest or "transparent" about its own #NGO key metrics of organizational viability / solvency. (Ex: Does anyone know the post-2025 official count of how many members PRSA even claims to have anymore? Or how much in member dollars were lost in 2025? Or what the projections / goals are for 2026? When is the 2025 "audit" due?) 📢 In light of PRSA's organizational #gaslighting and years of documented and increasingly left-wing 🫏 partisanship, here are PRSA's five-year comparison stats (2019-2024... also a few data points from 2014, 10 years ago), based on PRSA's #IRS Form 990 tax return data that PRSA reported to the U.S. federal government. This data renders to PRSA a D-MINUS -- at *best* -- in leadership performance, #PRethics, and legal #compliance relative to stewardship of member dollars, from the immediate pre-pandemic of 2019 to the most recent 990 filing for 2024: GROSS RECEIPTS: 2019: $16,097,601 📉 2024: $12,878,821 NET LOSSES IN MEMBER DOLLARS FOR YR: 💸 2019: -415,241 💸 2024: -156,701 (NOTE: Comprehensive five-year losses of member dollars from 2019-2024: -$2.579 MILLION) NUMBER OF PRSA STAFF EMPLOYED / HQ: 2014: 56 2019: 50 2024: 41 TOTAL STAFF SALARIES / BENEFITS / COMP PAID: 😐 2014: $5,321,535 😬 2019: $5,926,030 ($604,495 more in staff comp for 6 fewer staff than in 2014) 😵‍💫 2024: $5,920,467 (roughly same outlay of dollars over five years for 9 fewer staff to serve members than in 2019 -- and 15 fewer staff than in 2014 -- while accepting more than $1 million in federal "forgivable" taxpayer dollars in 2021 via PPP pandemic loan from U.S. Small Business Administration) PER-CAPITA STAFF AVERAGE COMPENSATION: 2014: $ 95,027 2019: $118,520 ☠️2024: $144,401 (a 21.8% INCREASE in per-capita staff comp over 5 yrs; a 51.9% increase over 10 yrs) AMT in COMP TO CFO BONAVENTURA: 2014: $235,797 🥸 2019: $441,611 2024: $358,891 MEMBERSHIP DUES & FEES REVENUE: 2019: $5,194,685 2024: $4,472,694 AVE. # of MEMBERS PER $273 / AVE. NAT’L FEE: 2019: 19,028 members 📉 2024: 16,383 members PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT REVENUE: 2019: $3,236,857 2024: $2,905,974 STUDENT SOCIETY (PRSSA) REVENUE: 2019: $832,902 2024: $764,294 AWARDS PROGRAMS REVENUE: 2019: $593,390 2024: Not Listed “LEGAL” FEES PAID (mostly to Russian 🇷🇺 Federation gov't "lobbying" subcontractor to @KetchumPR and past employer of Kamala Harris' husband, @VenableLLP): 2014: $ 63,225 🚨 2019: $242,991 2024: $135,687 🔗 marybethwest.com/from-russia…