I wince every time Tim brings up the $100,000 + that TES spent on the Caley search because it sounds like he's complaining about money, and he isn't. What he's actually feeling is a whole lot of guilt.
The combined fundraising efforts made by Leonard and Tim for TES on the Nancy Grace Show and elsewhere in the media raised only a total of $24,884 in donations from donors who specified that they wanted their money used for the Caylee Anthony search/es. As you heard Tim say in this interview, after he shut down the November search, furious donors contacted TES to demand their money back, and I don't know if that $24,884 is a net figure, after refunds, or a gross figure before refunds.
We don't know how much was donated to TES via Leonard's site, because when Tim shut down the search in Blanchard Park and accused Leonard of wrongdoing, Leonard and/or Robb Dick retaliated by deciding they'd refund all the money they raised for TES to the donors, rather than hand any of it over to TES. That's Leonard's perogative, so don't get up in arms about it. I believe they've already refunded that money to those donors who asked for it back, or that they're in the process of it.
Anyway, what I'm trying to explain is that when Tim spent $100 K on that Nov. search, he feels--rightfully--that he appropriated an additional $75 K that could have, and perhaps should have, been retained in TES's general fund for use in our other searches, present and future.
Tim brings new meaning to the word "frugal" when it comes to himself LOL -- and I don't know if he'll ever get past the fact that he spent the entire remaining $75 K on that fiasco of a search.
I probably should post this on the Tim Miller Talks to WS thread, since I just had this conversation with him this morning. I dunno. Don't want to get into trouble for double posts.
