Dave Ramsey at Ramsey Solutions headquarters' ribbon cutting in 2019Photo: Alexander Willis for Williamson Home Page
Conservative evangelical financial personality Dave Ramsey is famously not fond of being questioned. Start poking around a bit about him and his business, and one will quickly become acquainted with the uglier side of his on-air persona of a tough-talking financial guru who just hates debt and won't spare the rod.
In 2014, The Daily Beast reported on Ramsey's furious search for the people behind anonymous Twitter accounts that were mocking him. That story included the now-infamous anecdote about Ramsey pulling out a loaded gun during a staff meeting about the danger of gossip — an anecdote that was confirmed by a longtime Ramsey employee in a 2019 deposition. In the past year, the Scene has published several stories about Ramsey's defiance of public health guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic. The company kept its offices open, with staff working in-person, after employees started testing positive for COVID-19; hosted a large business conference in Franklin as case counts in the area spiked; and threw a massive, maskless Christmas party as the pandemic surged again last month. Ramsey and Co. have largely refused to comment for stories like this, opting instead to stew internally about the stories via emails that are then leaked to us. He seems to regard reporting that raises questions about his personal judgment as a business leader as attacks on all of Christianity. Ramsey recently went on a Twitter-blocking spree, blocking several Scene writers for reasons that remain unclear.
Which brings us to today's thorough investigation of Ramsey Solutions from Religion News Service. You should read the whole story from veteran reporter Bob Smietana. Among the details he reports: When an employee who was not married told Ramsey Solutions she was pregnant, the company fired her for having premarital sex in violation of its moral code. A leader who had an affair, however, was not subject to the same policy.
For our purposes, we'd like to draw your attention to the absolutely bonkers email Ramsey Solutions sent Smietana when he asked for comment on the story. To be clear, this was their response to questions sent before the story was published. This is how they reacted to an opportunity to have their side of the story included in Smietana's article. RNS has made the full statement available here. We'll quote two portions in particular, below.
The email begins like this:
Thanks for reaching out. We want to confirm for you that you are right, we are horrible evil people. We exist to simply bring harm to our team, take advantage of our customers, and spread COVID. And YOU figured it all out, wow. Who would have guessed that an unemployed guy, oh I am sorry, a “freelance reporter” would be the one to show us how horrible we are so we can change and to let the world know of our evil intent, secrets, and complete disregard for decency…..but YOU did it, you with all your top notch investigative skills have been able to weave together a series of half-truths to expose our evil ways. You are truly amazing.
That's ... wild. But the final paragraph is where Ramsey and company's penchant for lashing out and retaliating against perceived enemies really comes through. After noting that several area pastors and business leaders had been blind-copied on the email, the statement concludes:
If you are on this email we would ask a favor for Ramsey…would you help us? Bob’s phone number and email are here, and we would ask that you contact him TODAY and tell him all the evil horrible stories you know about us. Also, he lives in Spring Hill so if you see him out and about, be sure to congratulate him on his virtue. He needs to sell this story to pay his rent and the dirtier your story on us the more we can help him. When you call please do not be mean, Bob already has a lot of anxiety and we don’t want to add to that. If his phone is overwhelmed or he doesn’t want to hear your story, you should contact Religion News Service and tell them of Bob’s amazing grasp on virtue and truth. You can also tell them of all the people that have been helped by his pursuit of truth throughout the years as we all have followed his “career.” It is time the world knows about Bob and the blessing he has been to so many.
It does prove, at least, that Ramsey's commitment to freeing people of debt is sincere. He's apparently allowing several reporters to live in his head rent-free.
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