Today, MADD Delaware’s Executive Director Nancy Raynor posted a letter on her website asking the community for donations to keep the Delaware office open (which is slated to close at the end of the week due to lagging donations).
This is the same Nancy Raynor who said that President Obama’s one-drink-per-person beer summit could be a bad influence on kids. We found her comments to be indicative of an anti-alcohol attitude that has become pervasive in MADD’s messaging. After we called her on it, Ms. Raynor and MADD National tried to backtrack and deny her comments.
Remember that MADD was created to aid the victims of drunk driving, not to drive an anti-alcohol agenda. Even MADD’s co-founder Candy Lightner calls the “new” MADD a “neoprohibitionist” organization. The apple has fallen far from the tree.
If the residents of Delaware generously decide to open their wallets to keep MADD Delaware’s office open, we hope that they’ll do so with one caveat: MADD Delaware must get back to basics and focus on victim services.
