Long time PIRGER here - from a canvass director all the way to senior professional staff:
I will say two things:
1) Yes, PIRG has a very cultish environment. It is not even "us" vs "them" as in public versus private interests. It is PIRG against all comers including other enviro groups etc etc. Additionally the top leaders of PIRG make very good money while requiring a vow of poverty from everyone else. Doug Phelps is a millionaire.
2) The big problem with PIRG is that it is dominated by a very small group of individuals at the top who zelously guard their image of PIRG and will destroy anyone who comes in the way of that. For PIRG to really change they will need to remove those folks and I am happy to name names cause I believe in what PIRG is trying to do and I do not believe in those individuals
By all means, please do start naming names! Who are the people behind the curtain that I, for one, and chomping at the bit to take out to the tool shed.
We need to rid the left of these people, but who are they?
