STATEMENT FROM CHALLENGING THE RHETORIC

Contrary to stories that are being circulated on the net, any donations given to this show through my personal GOFUNDME ACCOUNT were used to pay for the cost of the show through BlogTalkRadio. No money was stolen as it was DONATED to the show. Money was given for website upgrades that were never accomplished. If any other services were ordered, I never saw them or used them. Challenging the Rhetoric is and always has been independent media and is funded by no one except the listeners through donations. It costs money to broadcast the shows to the public.

Domain name is owned by me, that is why it is attached to this page.

***Social networks, Gmail account, GoDaddy account, BlogtalkRadio account, GoFundMe, are all owned by me. Any other use of the name is infringement of my intellectual property and is a duplicate of what I have already created.

"Challenging the Rhetoric" was a name given to me by one of my guests on Wise Women Media​ at 1:45 onward on the following radio program:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/here-be-monsters/2014/08/09/wise-woman-media-8814-returning-special-guests-cindy-sheehan-and-robin-ladue

The name and concept was not created by Cheri Roberts of CheriSpeak Media.

UPDATE TO GOFUNDME: 
THIS IS NOT AN APPEAL FOR DONATIONS, ONLY AN UPDATE ON MY GOFUNDME ACCOUNT.

SO...LET'S TALK ABOUT THE MONEY!

All funds collected here were spent paying BlogTalkRadio for Challenging the Rhetoric's radio shows. A total of $280. The difference was paid out of my pocket as was the domain name. Cheri Roberts and her boyfriend, E. Michael gave me a total of $60. I gave this back to Cheri through PayPal on the understanding that it would be used for an update to the Wordpress site. That update was never done.

***Cheri Robert's response: "LMAO in the classlessness of #AnitaStewart, she emailed Dr Vivek Sahgal asking for more donations. Vivek is one of at least two men who she previously frauded. Please note, the GFM acct linked here has nothing to do with me."

My question to Cheri Roberts is this: If this account has nothing to do with you, why do you want the money that was donated to this account before the shows and other expenses had been paid for? Did you expect me to bankroll the show out of my pocket? Because I did that and then reimbursed myself for the shows when the donations came in. No embezzlement here. This was donated money to keep the show on the air.