More questions from the MDJ - read the truth here first

Following is a list of questions received today from the MDJ as they continue their balanced reporting and search for “dirt” on one candidate for the Post 4 School Board seat. I am giving you my answers prior to their printing them in their paper. The answers and the meanings they print will likely be distortions of my actual words. Here are my direct answers.

1. Please send me copies of Cool Dreams’ IRS tax returns for 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Quote from my CPA – “You are not required to file Form 990 or Form 990-EZ if your annual receipts are less than $5,000; however, you are required to file Form 990-N (e-Postcard). These have all been filed for 2007-2008-2009.”


2. As for the Cool Dreams Foundation speaking engagements – You spoke to schoolchildren in Georgia before the foundation was registered here, right?
Yes, Bill Borden spoke to schools, business groups, scout troops, etc.

Were you paid for those engagements? If so, who were the checks made out to? Cool Dreams Foundation in Alaska?
If there were donations, checks were made to Cool Dreams Inc, an Alaska corporation but if I was paid to speak, a rare occasion, checks were made to me personally.

(I’m not following as to why you just registered the foundation in Ga. at the end of March to do business here, if you were already doing business here.)

Cool Dreams Foundation was registered in March of 2010 because that was when Cool Dreams first had a physical presence in the state of Georgia and donations were being sought for the signs to be installed in Swift Cantrell Park for the Fisher King Iditarod Lead Dog Memorial Trail. This was a public-private partnership and the first time any “significant” monies would come through Cool Dreams so the Cool Dreams Foundation was registered.

3. How much do you charge for speaking engagements?

I don’t charge for speaking engagements however I do accept donations. When asked, I do request donations be made to Cool Dreams. If funds are not available for a donation, I still gladly take my message into the schools and business community. I have spoken for free way more times than I have had donations made. And I do not take a salary for speaking. Monies taken from the account go to care for and feed the retired sled dogs, for web site maintenance, for hand outs for the kids and for audiovisual equipment used in the presentations.

4. In an effort to verify the note on your website that you have presented your message to more than 300,000 school children -- For the last 6 months, can you list the names of schools and their cities where you have spoken? You can go back further, if you’d like.

The number 300,000 is an estimate and I’ve probably spoken to more. I’ve stopped trying to count. Some group presentations are in classrooms for individual classes while some are entire auditoriums for the entire student body.
Here is a partial list of schools and other organizations I have spoken to over the past several years:
Kennesaw Charter School
Dawson County Middle School
Barber Middle School
Due West Elementary
Drakes Creek Middle School
Crabapple Middle School
Georgia 9th District PTA Assembly
Hayesville Middle School
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
KSU Fighting Owls basketball team
Lewis Elementary
Five Forks Middle School
Alvaton Elementary School
Free Home Elementary School
JJ Daniel Middle School
Powder Springs Business Association
Woodstock Rotary Club
Marietta Rotary Club
Paulding Business Association
Acworth Business Association
Cub Scout Pack 702
Boy Scout Troop 422
Cub Scout Pack 412
Marietta Metro Rotary Club
Cobb Youth Leadership
Cobb County Juvenile Court Staff
Marietta Kiwanis Club
East Cobb Kiwanis Club
Vinings Rotary
North Cobb Rotary

Note: You are welcome to visit any time there is a Cool Dreams presentation and report some good news for a change.


5. What happened with Real Estate Counselors Inc.? The SoS website says it was closed in November 2002. Do you know why? I’m hearing that two men involved with the business went to federal prison, so I’m trying to track it down. Please tell me everything you know about the company.

Real Estate Counselors Inc was a title agency in a closing firm where I was employed as a law clerk. I left there in the mid 1990’s. I am not sure why it closed in 2002 but I think the attorney(s) moved and/or went on to other firms. One of the clients of the firm was investigated for federal loan fraud and two men went to prison for this. Their crime had absolutely nothing to do with me personally or with Real Estate Counselors or, as far as I know, any of the other law firms that they used. I willingly participated in this investigation and this is not nearly the same as being “investigated” so I hope you can make that clear in your story.

NOTE: MDJ appears to be implying that I was investigated by the FBI. I was not.

6. Campaign contributions are due next week. Can you give me a preview of how much you’ve taken in?

About $3,000 but will give you an exact number when we complete the forms.


Thank you. Happy Fourth of July.
KIM