Posted on 10/05/2015 10:59:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Nothing has defined Carly Forina's presidential campaign quite like her outspoken opposition to Planned Parenthood — a point she has brought up repeatedly at debates and press conferences. It might seem odd, then, that her Fiorina Foundation has given half a million dollars to Planned Parenthood since 2011.
The Fiorina Foundation isn't actually, legally, a foundation, per se; it's an account Fiorina and her husband hold with The Ayco Charitable Foundation, a "donor-advised fund" that stashes charitable donations for clients in case they want to quickly receive tax benefits, The Daily Beast explains. One expert on the topic described it as "a charitable savings account"; Fiorina's account just happens to give money to her supposed archenemy, distributing money to five Planned Parenthoods across New York, Connecticut, and Indiana:
If Fiorina feels as strongly as she claims that it's an abomination for American tax dollars — including hers — to be forced to help fund Planned Parenthood, it's perplexing that she would elect to be associated with any group that feels comfortable giving money to Planned Parenthood by choice — on behalf of an individual or not.
Asked if Fiorina has a problem with Ayco distributing funds to Planned Parenthood, and if she's ever lobbied them to stop, [Fiorina's deputy campaign manager Sarah Isgur] Flores said, "Carly has no control over those clients and their giving preferences."
Asked why Fiorina doesn’t just find a donor-advised fund that vows never to give money to Planned Parenthood on behalf of anyone, Flores didn't respond. [The Daily Beast]
The anonymity factor makes it hard to sort through Fiorina's possible motivations. As nonprofit consultant Al Cantor told The Daily Beast, it's a bit of an unsolved mystery. "[Fiorina] may be very generous and we don’t know it, or she may have not given any money out of her fund but got the charitable deduction [anyway], or she may have given to organizations she would rather not be associated with," Cantor said.
Uh Oh!
...and there are people that want to vote for someone like this that is supporting the ‘baby butchers’?
How disgusting........
Stick a Fork in her, she’s done!
Is Carly a big PHONY or has she had a conversion to conservatism?
She might be toast. Folks with enough money to set up foundations should spend more time understanding what they are spending money on.
I have zero problem with private money funding abortion. Let the libtards kill their own. But you can’t come out on one hand like she has....then support it.
See how good she is at damage control.
Does anyone believe this woman, because I don’t. She is a shrill for the establishment?
How stupid is this woman?
Did she really think this wouldn’t be discovered?
That no one would find this out?
How idiotic is it to speak out against a group that you give money to?
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, is she?
Thanks for posting. I’d mentioned this, on another thread...now I have a link ;-)
Not to mention, it’s a faux charity...just like she’s a faux conservative.
It’s basically a checking account/slush fund, used for tax credit purposes. She never filed the proper forms to have it registered as a true foundation. Funny that.
Your buddy Trump’s foundation has given to such notable conservative causes as: the ACLU, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, GLSEN, and Susan G Komen (which itself partners with Planned Parenthood).
Not organizations that Sen. Cruz would ever support, of course.
Shill. Hillary is a shrill.
She will have some type of answer that Fox News pundits will run with, and to her benefit
Fox and the establishment will make an excuse for her, and don’t be surprised to see some paid hacks of her on here doing the same
Where is Homer Simpson?
That will leave a mark.
OK, so she didn’t know they were decapitating babies for sale. She knows now. Has she done anything about it?
Of course, before she knew about the whole head-chopping business, she knew they were doing abortions. If she is against abortion you’d think she’d have said something before now. She hasn’t evidently.
I notice that while she says she is against abortion, she chooses her words very carefully. I call it “wordsmithing”. Someone who is absolutely morally opposed to something doesn’t have to be so careful in their choice of words, she chooses her words like a lawyer leaving a back door. She was able to speak in flat unequivocal terms when she talks about the head-chopping; when she talks about abortion she uses lawyer-speak.
This is one of the things that has always bothered me about her, even when she is saying the right things.
And with that, she just aborted herself from any of my serious consideration of support...
Carly is not going to get our votes here, period.
Too many stupid statements too
So she bathes in chopped-up-baby blood? Who knew?
This was a big mistake for her. My guess is she had no idea what her foundation was supporting. It’s come to bite her in the end.
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