Posted on 08/30/2013 9:10:43 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Billionaire and former presidential candidate Ross Perot’s foundation announced yesterday that it will donate $1 million to Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, the Huffington Post reports. Governor Rick Perry cut off the women’s health network’s state and federal funding last year — including funds that went to its preventative and basic health-care programs for uninsured women — citing the overarching pro-abortion stance. (He called this a “win for women.”) The abortion restrictions signed into law in June have already closed three Planned Parenthood clinics. Perot’s wife Margot said in a written statement that the foundation recognized “the need to further inform the public of the mission of this great organization and the need to support it at this critical time."
Better funded, at the moment, is Texas women’s health advocate State Senator Wendy Davis. In addition to pulling in $1.2 million in small individual donations after her fame-making filibuster, according to Politico, Democratic strategists are gearing up to throw their weight (read: money) behind a statewide run for Davis. A win against likely GOP nominee Greg Abbott is still a long shot, according to a New York Times report — even if he keeps up the “Retard Barbie” stuff. But a $40M Davis campaign for governor would draw Republican funds from closer races in Ohio, Florida, and Michigan, and set the stage for 2018, when she could run for governor again or for the U.S. Senate.
Margot Perot ... I think this came up in ‘92. Board member of Planned Barrenhood of Texas.
Good Crikey - now there’s a real positive use of a million dollars.
Believe me or not - I saw through this guy from day one. I never trusted him, I knew he was a phony from the beginning.
[but he stood up for his men] Great, he put them at risk to begin with.
Always figured that Perot was a POS!
Perot is pro-abortion, along with his early approval of gays in the military, and his statement that he would kick in doors to confiscate guns.
Ross Perot and his family have been at the forefront of the Dallas pro-abortion movement for decades with expensive work on behalf of the abortion industry.
Ross Perot on Abortion;
Pro-choice activist
Perot has not only taken a pro-abortion stand, his is the first presidential candidate ever to have conceived close personal and institutional ties to the abortion industry. The Perots are activists with an interest in the most radical fringe of the pro-abortion movement.
He funded an entire gynecological wing of the Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, which has provided first and second trimester abortions as well as amniocentesis research. He has also been a vocal supporter of Planned Parenthood.
Margot and Katherine Perot, 2005 Award Recipients:
Ms. Perot is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Dallas, board member of the Dallas Museum of Art and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Hockaday School. She is also a former elementary school teacher.
She has been a supporter of Planned Parenthood of North Texas for more than 20 years.
Margot and Katherine Perot are being recognized for their work Chairing Planned Parenthood North Texas’s first annual fund drive, Secure Our Mission, which raised more than $95,000.
Yes, he was a phony from the beginning. It was very noticeable in the three-way debates that he continually attacked Bush, but never attacked Clinton.
Obviously he and Clinton were working together. I thought so at the time.
Bush was a pretty lousy choice, but far better than the other two.
Wow no bias there.
I wonder how young women still in the womb feel about their "advocate."
And don’t forget the many women, especially as they get older who need to wear Depends because they have had perfectly normal wanted deliveries. Frankly, I am very careful to avoid sneezing at certain times.
Wow. I would have said that Ross Perot is no longer with us.
He’s still alive???
The Perot’s interest is in protecting abortion, not contraception.
Can we conclude big assholes have big ears?
You are one selfish person.
Perot knew Clinton very well in the 80s thanks to Perot systems contracts processing Medicaid claims thought the south .
I was warned in 1992 by Arkansas hospital CEOs .
They knew that Perot was a stalking horse .
That big eared mfer
The best description of Ross Perot ever has to be Rush Limbaugh’s “the hand grenade with a bad haircut”.
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