RIBERA, N.M.-
Don Imus’s banishment from the public airwaves deprives him of a critical platform to raise money for the sprawling Imus Ranch in New Mexico, where children with cancer and other illnesses get a taste of the cowboy life.
Before he was fired last week over a racially tinged remark about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, Imus pointed to the ranch in Ribera, New Mexico, to make his case that he is a good person who said a bad thing.
With Imus out of a job, some wonder if the pipeline to charity money for the ranch 50 miles north of Santa Fe will dry up.
Charity Navigator president Trent Stamp says just as corporate sponsors backed away from the Imus radio show, there could be a trend where donors try to find — in his words — “a less hot-button charity to support.”
