News you can use all day
- Lobbyists - The Netflix-style decision maker of charitable foundations Komen fired its Democratic lobbyist before hiring GOP theocrat forced-birther Karen Handel. (Raw Story)
- Goodbyes - Three top officials from Komen have resigned following the bone-headed decision to defund Planned Parenthood. Additionally, all seven of the California affiliates have separated from the national organization, as well as many in other states. Fundamentally (in Noot-speak), it was a bloodbath. (Raw Story)
- Victory! - Notorious for-profit charity Komen declares defeat and will continue to fully fund Planned Parenthood breast cancer screenings. They also plan to clarify their rules about not funding other organizations that they must not be under criminal investigation, not political investigation. Anyway, the full statement is at: (TPM)
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I think they promised not to cut this year’s grants, TG.
Anyways, to hell with ‘em. They’ve shown their true color: wingnut green.
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They already said a day ago their decision to quit funding PP would not effect this year’s contribution. What does the future hold?
At any rate I’m done with SGK, it’s just a big money machine. Collected $2B since they’ve started, breast cancer rates meanwhile increase. Spend more on promotion than research. Handel’s annual salary is about 2/3 what Komen gives to PP. Google “pinkwashing” and see what else they’re up too.
Komen may be manipulating. I don’t know if this is real. They’re fulfilling an obligation they already made for this year and stated as such yesterday. They aren’t making any promises for the future. Originally the explanation was that they wouldn’t fund PP because it was under investigation. Then they changed it to funding only to research organizations. Next, they said they cut off PP because it was a pass-through entity. Now we’re back to investigations.
1). Only the citizens of Georgia got to rebuff Karen Handel in 2010, but during these past few days people all across America got to rebuff her and send their donations directly to Planned Parenthood.
2). This will help clear out the deadwood of public health professionals and scientists in the organization and replace them with contraproductive graduates of Bob Jones, Oral Roberts and Liberty Universities.
3). So, is Komen going to continue funding Penn State’s Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, because the Penn State investigation IS criminal is it not?
i dont think the idiots at Komen realized a BIG part of their donor pool was a bunch of nut job lefties — they must have figured all their booty came from the likes of Karen Handel’s friends.
HAHAHAHA
wait till they see they have to stop giving such lavish parties and paying exorbinant salaries when the left money machine turns off
i hope they go OOB .,.,.