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News & ArtsWednesday, February 1, 2012
The Ladies Break Komen's New Rule
Posted by Dominic Holden on Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:06 PM
The Komen foundation claims it had no choice but to defund Planned Parenthood due to an internal new rule against dispersing grants to any recipient under local, state, or congressional investigation. However, it doesn't matter if the investigation lacks a legit concern of malfeasance, it appears, or whether the investigation doesn't stand to find dirt or if the probe is purely political.
Because the investigation into Planned Parenthood by congressional Republicans fails all three tests.
So how about this: How about any city or county council member in the country, any state legislator in the US, or any congressperson begins a cursory investigation into every single recipient of a Komen grant.
Investigate them all.
Komen won't stop funding all of them, right? They'd have to change their rule instead. And if they want to continue to defund Planned Parenthood, which they do, at least Komen may be forced to explain the true politics behind their decision—instead of hiding behind this implausible excuse to cover up the right-wing agenda of tearing down progressive nonprofits.
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If the Komen Foundation is receiving federal dollars themselves (and I haven't looked into it, this is just based on working in the nonprofit sector), they may not have the choice to change their rule.
If Komen is fully funded by private dollars, then yeah, have at them. But grantmakers who receive federal funding themselves are not allowed to disperse funds to organizations that are under government investigation.
I agree that this is all bullshit and PP is the victim of yet more political posturing - but I'm not convinced that Komen Fdn isn't just as much of a pawn here.
If Komen is fully funded by private dollars, then yeah, have at them. But grantmakers who receive federal funding themselves are not allowed to disperse funds to organizations that are under government investigation.
I agree that this is all bullshit and PP is the victim of yet more political posturing - but I'm not convinced that Komen Fdn isn't just as much of a pawn here.
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ok this is what I get for starting at the top of Slog....reading the Reality Check article now and it does sound like Komen is more involved in this BS.
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Yes, our government exists to spend money on needless investigations, and I'm sure worthy organizations partially funded by Komen all want to be investigated to make a point. What a great suggestion!
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Komen is going to realize just how naive they were for caving in to those clodhoppers when the next breast cancer breakthrough involves stem ce,lls.
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Komen's appointed a VP's whose political goal was to be an anti-choice advocate and destroy the local PP chapter, and Komen's board is staffed with pro-lifers as well, some of which who are aligned with "Pregnancy Crisis" centers that will get the PP funding.
@6: They ARE the clodhoppers, and believe that they'll get more money for this. It's all crass capitalism and promotion of right-wing politics at the expense of women.
@6: They ARE the clodhoppers, and believe that they'll get more money for this. It's all crass capitalism and promotion of right-wing politics at the expense of women.
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@8: We all may win in the long term, in that "Awareness"-centric asshole causes more concerned about corporate sponsorship, ribbons, and gala parties than actual research may be able to fucking die already.
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In the short term, the SGK donations to PP have ALREADY almost been made up for by private donations from amazing, wonderful people.
It is absolutely essential that everyone else stop donating to the Komen foundation, however.
http://bit.ly/yqEOgb
From their VP's campaign website-
"My opponents have recently recycled old attacks against me concerning Fulton County’s funding of some programs through Planned Parenthood. They are doing so without providing any context and continue to omit several key and important facts. First, let me be clear, since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood. During my time as Chairman of Fulton County, there were federal and state pass-through grants that were awarded to Planned Parenthood for breast and cervical cancer screening, as well as a “Healthy Babies Initiative.” The grant was authorized, regulated, administered and distributed through the State of Georgia. Because of the criteria, regulations and parameters of the grant, Planned Parenthood was the only eligible vendor approved to meet the state criteria. Additionally, none of the services in any way involved abortions or abortion-related services. In fact, state and federal law prohibits the use of taxpayer funds for abortions or abortion related services and I strongly support those laws. Since grants like these are from the state I’ll eliminate them as your next Governor."
Also, Jane Abraham who runs the Susan B Anthony List and the Nurturing Network (crisis pregnancy clinics worldwide) is on their board, and Scalia's wife is on the board of THAT organization (Nurturing Network). There's all sorts of anti-choicers connected to Komen.
It is absolutely essential that everyone else stop donating to the Komen foundation, however.
http://bit.ly/yqEOgb
From their VP's campaign website-
"My opponents have recently recycled old attacks against me concerning Fulton County’s funding of some programs through Planned Parenthood. They are doing so without providing any context and continue to omit several key and important facts. First, let me be clear, since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood. During my time as Chairman of Fulton County, there were federal and state pass-through grants that were awarded to Planned Parenthood for breast and cervical cancer screening, as well as a “Healthy Babies Initiative.” The grant was authorized, regulated, administered and distributed through the State of Georgia. Because of the criteria, regulations and parameters of the grant, Planned Parenthood was the only eligible vendor approved to meet the state criteria. Additionally, none of the services in any way involved abortions or abortion-related services. In fact, state and federal law prohibits the use of taxpayer funds for abortions or abortion related services and I strongly support those laws. Since grants like these are from the state I’ll eliminate them as your next Governor."
Also, Jane Abraham who runs the Susan B Anthony List and the Nurturing Network (crisis pregnancy clinics worldwide) is on their board, and Scalia's wife is on the board of THAT organization (Nurturing Network). There's all sorts of anti-choicers connected to Komen.
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http://www.komenadvocacy.org/content.asp…
"Jane Abraham — President of Abraham Strategies LLC., a small business that handles strategic marketing assignments for a variety of clients. She also is the General Chairman of the Susan B. Anthony List, a not-for-profit membership organization and connected Political Action Committee that supports pro-life political candidates and issues. The wife of former Senator and U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, she has long been a breast cancer advocate, having actively participated for a number of years in both the annual Komen Race for the Cure held in Washington, D.C., as well as the two Race for the Cure events hosted in her home state of Michigan. She also currently serves on the boards of the Detroit-based Covenant House Michigan serving at-risk and homeless youth, the Arab American National Museum and The Nurturing Network, an international charitable organization that responds to the immediate and comprehensive needs of women facing the crisis of an unplanned pregnancy."
"Jane Abraham — President of Abraham Strategies LLC., a small business that handles strategic marketing assignments for a variety of clients. She also is the General Chairman of the Susan B. Anthony List, a not-for-profit membership organization and connected Political Action Committee that supports pro-life political candidates and issues. The wife of former Senator and U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, she has long been a breast cancer advocate, having actively participated for a number of years in both the annual Komen Race for the Cure held in Washington, D.C., as well as the two Race for the Cure events hosted in her home state of Michigan. She also currently serves on the boards of the Detroit-based Covenant House Michigan serving at-risk and homeless youth, the Arab American National Museum and The Nurturing Network, an international charitable organization that responds to the immediate and comprehensive needs of women facing the crisis of an unplanned pregnancy."
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KOMEN'S CORPORATE SPONSORS:
http://ww5.komen.org/CorporatePartners.a…
Perhaps those corporations would be interested in hearing how you feel about the way Komen isn't dispensing their financial support.
http://ww5.komen.org/CorporatePartners.a…
Perhaps those corporations would be interested in hearing how you feel about the way Komen isn't dispensing their financial support.
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@14: They're making the transition to pro-life causes to get more money, and thinking that they won't lose any donations by claiming that this "isn't political".
Hopefully their greed/opportunism doesn't get rewarded by lazy libs who take them at their (obviously false) word.
Hopefully their greed/opportunism doesn't get rewarded by lazy libs who take them at their (obviously false) word.
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