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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSusan G. Komen's VP Indicates Her Real Motives In Awful Twitter Retweet
Karen Handel, a former GOP candidate who ran on a pro-life platform, shows her true colors. She just happens to be Susan G. Komens Vice President of Public Policy now.
Planned Parenthood offers cancer screenings as a significant portion of its services. Taking away funding for those services leaves not only Planned Parenthood vulnerable, but the women who rely on them. Susan G. Komens official story is that the defunding is non-political, but what their Vice President retweeted tells a different story. Share this if you think so, too.
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http://front.moveon.org/susan-g-komens-vp-indicates-her-real-motives-in-awful-twitter-retweet/
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)the blatantly politically-motivated decision of Komen was the attack.
Lightning_McQueen
(16 posts)Because both Brinker and Handel are destroying what Komen represents.
I don't think Susan G. Komen likes her name being abused in name of politics. Republican politics.
They're reptiles!
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)66 dmhlt
(1,941 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)And Brinker, her SISTER, created the Foundation to honor her memory, and help stop breast cancer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G._Komen
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)At donor expense.
malaise
(267,455 posts)Fugg 'em!
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Response to GodlessBiker (Original post)
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southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)to start support Planned Parenthood. Without the everyday people the organization will die. The republicans are trying to kill this organization. We must start defending womens issues. These issues will effect our granddaughters. If these republicans have their way they will take even your right to have any type of birth control away.
indykatie1955
(63 posts)I deliver my annual UW contribution to PP using this convenient payroll deduction method and supplement it with other donations. I made an additional contribution when the fight with Indiana threatened PP funding and will do so again now that SGK has terminated funding. I have never contributed to the SGK organization so I can't terminate any donations but I'm sure many will. How did they not understand their position on this would cost them dearly from both a financial and reputational perspective. They start this damn fight and then accuse PP of making political hay out of it. What idiots.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)tavalon
(27,985 posts)musette_sf
(10,182 posts)to defund the ONE single organization that makes the MOST difference in ALL women's health - and then pretend that it ISN'T a political bomb. Cry me a freaking river, SGK.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)to low income women in the nation.
Fuck them.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)They make their money from big corporate sponsorships. You think the NFL or Ford Motor Company or any public company you can think of wants to wade into the abortion debate? Uh, no, thanks anyway. We'll pass. They are a bridge too far at this point.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I know many women who have participated in that event. They are all educated, pro-choice women. I imagine that a majority of the walkers and runners feel similarly. Yeah, they can continue doing it with conservatives and apolitical types, but their numbers will drop dramatically, I'm guessing.
obamanut2012
(25,869 posts)and affluent suburbs.
Someone needs to start something up.
How about CLIF? ie CLIF and Luna Bars? They already give money to women's health charities, are a huge name, and also are not controversial in any way (that I know of).
FailureToCommunicate
(13,968 posts)they also do grant funding to Planned Parenthood.
http://www.relayforlife.org/
SunSeeker
(51,302 posts)I know from experience. The American Cancer Society was all over the oncology wards with freebies to the cancer patients in need, from books to wigs and makeup to make you feel human while on Chemo. I saw no sign of SGK.
Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)I am sure that their loss in the organization will be someone's gain.
The only positive thing I see from this scandal is finding out 'other' organizations out there, similar to SGK, without the corporate machinery in high gear; willing to sell their soul for monetary gain.
nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)You have to raise thousands to be allowed to participate. I was shocked at what they expected.
Uncle Joe
(58,029 posts)Thanks for the thread, GodlessBiker.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)GodlessBiker
(6,314 posts)titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Tikki
(14,533 posts)Take that to the bank..you will never see a cent from me again.
Tikki
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)now she's a victim, this shit is getting tiresome and extremely old school.
Her sociopathic beliefs are effing hurting women, y'know her own kind. What a freaking sorry arse excuse.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)hurts women. Brinker and Handel have to go.
Bye. Bye.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)ABORTION SERVICES ARE LEGAL
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)usrname
(398 posts)I see she's doubling down. This should go over well.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)They've tossed pro-choice donors and corporate donors away with this decision. All they have left are anti-abortion donors. Backtracking would drive them away.
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)It won't even take a backtrack. A few months down the road when the foundation gets assistance from any company that doesn't openly hate women, gays, and birth control Fox will do a "story" that exposes it, and that lot will lose their minds and abandon them immediately. Even if it's just a rumor or completely nonsensical, the effect will be the same.
enki23
(7,786 posts)Just like the catholic church taking over fucking hospitals and denying access to anything they don't like. They don't have constitutional authority to deny us, just yet, though they're working on that too. In the meantime, they can just corner the market on all the outlets capable of providing services their imaginary fucking sky monster doesn't like. If humans get hurt in the process, so fucking what? They don't care about neither women nor fetuses. That's all bullshit. They care about their own souls, and think their god will be mad at them if they don't fight for his supposed cause. This is about them, and them alone. The actual effects on actual lives of actual humans do not fucking matter.
JHB
(37,122 posts)...it was creating a pretext to justify a power play.
It is run by gangsters.
liberalmike27
(2,479 posts)Is obviously, for those who would've contributed to this particular organization, to redirect any and all funds that might've gone to the right-wing political charity, and send them to planned parenthood.
crim son
(27,462 posts)and it was just about as mature as Handel's tweet.
Where have all the grownups gone?
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)freakin' morans.
Planned Parenthood has prevented more abortions with its services than their attempted dictatorship ever will.
Arkansas Granny
(31,476 posts)prevent unwanted pregnancies. It seems so simple that you'd think that even the RW fundies could figure it out. However, they are more into punishment than prevention.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)amb123
(1,576 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,477 posts)They can't get their stories straight. Their brand is wrecked forever. The only ones who will respect them from here on out are the Phyllis Schlafly types. Ain't enough to go around.
Handel will leave soon with a huge buyout. Huge. Then Fox News beckons.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)rocktivity
(44,546 posts)and cry a freaking river when they get called on it.
rocktivity
gateley
(62,683 posts)for it.
Don't get me wrong, she makes me retch and I hope she's ousted, but she didn't tweet this. And, she removed it (wisely).
Ruby the Liberal
(26,212 posts)Look to the wee small print at the bottom. She ReTweeted her endorsement of the original.
(Noting that not all RTs are endorsements - some are just to share regardless of agreement, but people typically note "RT is not endorsement" in their profile if they do that. This was endorsement and was deleted shortly after she did it. She knew she fucked up).
gateley
(62,683 posts)SaintPete
(533 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)chervilant
(8,267 posts)If this doesn't warrant a DUzy...
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)I venture it is a hell of a big number compared to the number of abortions PP has performed. I'm willing to be my life that PP has prevented a lot more abortions than these anti choice nutjobs have!
Phlem
(6,323 posts)you suck forever for letting this piece of Sh!* at the helm.
I hope you go down in flames.
-p
Celebration
(15,812 posts)remember they wouldn't let anyone else use the words "for the cure"?
And WAY TOO MUCH PINK for me. I couldn't even escape from it on Delta Airlines. Sheesh.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)They probably don't even love Jesus! How totally lame is thaaaaaaaat?
yardwork
(61,331 posts)TBF
(31,892 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)grrrrr!
highplainsdem
(48,650 posts)responses to her critics.
http://twitter.com/karenhandel
http://twitter.com/JadeMorey
That specific tweet of Morey's:
http://twitter.com/JadeMorey/status/164845714910883840
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)She's a piece of work. Doubtlessly, Karen Handel is too.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Fucking nimrod.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Isn't "Cry me a river" the quintessential standard RW reply for everything?
SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)the nole fan thing proves it
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)Skelly
(238 posts)Go to the SBK national web page. They list their sponsors. Find those you usually buy from (ie Yoplait...one of their biggest sponsors) and write them explaining why you will no longer be buying their product.
MsLeopard
(1,265 posts)Bank of America
Yoplait
American Airlines
New Balance
TPR Holding Co.
Walgreen's
Ford
belk -Modern Southern Style
Million Dollar Council:
3M
ACH Food Companies Inc.
Titleist
Dell
Georgia-Pacific (those bastards are everywhere)
Hallmark
Hollan American Cruises
Kitchen Aid
Lowe's
Purina Cat Chow
Oreck
On the Road Mexican Grill & Cantina
Payless
Princess Cruises
RE/Max
Simon Property Group
Sumba Fitness
Race for the Cure Sponsors:
Yoplait
Bank of America
Caltrate Calcium & Vitamin D
Ford
New Balance
RE/Max
Self Magazine
Walgreen's
Zeta Tau Alpha
Georgia-Pacific - Northern Quilted & Vanity Fair brands
Corporate Sponsors: http://ww5.komen.org/CorporatePartners.aspx
I see a dozen or more sponsors I'll write today.
DeschutesRiver
(2,354 posts)I've been reading these threads with disbelief - I can't be the only one who didn't know all of this.
I will never donate a dime to these freaks again. Never. Nor sponsor any races for anyone.
My donations will go elsewhere in the future.
This is so sick.
Liberty Belle
(9,525 posts)I was literally about to load it when I heard the news about what they did to Planned Parenthood, and instead of posting, hit "delete."
I've helped this group in the past get many people signed up who read about them on the magazine I publish, but not anymore.
maryellen99
(3,778 posts)Komen is going to offer Free breast cancer screenings at Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
yardwork
(61,331 posts)Those religious organizations that pretend to offer pregnant women "options" but instead browbeat rape victims into giving birth, while telling poor women that abortions cause cancer? Great.
We see the utter failure of letting the private sector provide health care and health research.
gopiscrap
(23,662 posts)I really want to protest it...at the very least make them spend as much in security costs as they raise!
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Just promise not to bite a state trooper! )
gopiscrap
(23,662 posts)what's with the trooper comment?
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Four occupiers from Tacoma that I know of on DU.
Just kidding about biting troopers. I know you would NEVER do such a thing.
gopiscrap
(23,662 posts)along with a fencing company...I think the shit is going to hit the fan real soon.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Time for Chapter 2 as RSmith says.
gopiscrap
(23,662 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)This is bullshit. This year, I'm cutting a check to PP instead.
Edit: I guarantee she's going to be polishing up her resume this week. Really? You're in public relations and you're so stupid you open your trap like that, on a sensitive political issue?
yellowcanine
(35,690 posts)doesn't fire her for this she has no hope of recovering any credibility.
SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)that if you take a 2x4 to a hornet's nest, you're going to get stung pretty badly.
Stop whining about being stung.
SunSeeker
(51,302 posts)by those lying sacks of liquid crap at SGK. The headline in the LA Times this morning is "Komen says it's not about abortion." Yeah right. Cry me a river!
p.s. Thanks for the post, GodlessBiker.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)She has destroyed SGK all by herself, and her right-wing nuttery. The people that hired her should be ashamed of themselves. She's a grade A nitwit.