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Pampered Chef Helps End Support of Planned Parenthood by Berkshire Hathaway & Warren Buffett!
The Pampered Chef ^
| July 3, 2003
| Doris Christopher
Posted on 07/03/2003 5:58:49 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie
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This is a follow-up to the article from Citizen Magazine that was posted a couple of weeks ago. Quite a few Freepers took some pretty nasty swipes at Pampered Chef, consultants like me, and Doris Christopher. It took a lot of courage for Doris to take this step. Not even pro-life shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway have been able to persuade Warren Buffett to cease support of Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion causes. She's a modern day Esther, and I'm so proud to be part of her company. Now all of you can start enjoying your Pampered Chef products without any guilt!
To: ChocChipCookie
I haven't taken swipes Chipper. But I am sure happy that Doris did the right thing. Planned Parenthood also got word that now a majority of women appose abortion. I believe that we may see the demise of the death in my lifetime.
To: ChocChipCookie
Thank you very, very much for posting this. I did not expect such a favorable result. And, my respect for Warren Buffet has just gone up. He LISTENS to people, and he acts on what he hears.
In this world it takes two kinds of people to get results. One is relatively ordinary people but with great courage, like Doris Christopher. (What an appropriate last name for this lady!) The other is people in positions of power and authority who will listen to such people. That, it turns out, means Warren Buffet.
Before I read this thread, I instructed my representative to make another investment in Berkshire Hathaway. I did that for financial reasons. Now, I am even more satisfied with that decision for personal reasons.
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posted on
07/03/2003 6:07:36 PM PDT
by
Congressman Billybob
("Saddam has left the building. Heck, the building has left the building.")
To: ChocChipCookie
I am very impressed with Doris Christopher. It took integrity to do what she did.
I am also impressed with Warren Buffet. He had compassion to do what he did.
Non of this would have been possible if the Pampered Chef ladies had stayed quiet. They didn't need to be loud and ugly, but just lived up to their beliefs.
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posted on
07/03/2003 6:26:40 PM PDT
by
Ruth A.
To: Ruth A.
I am also impressed with Warren Buffet. He had compassion to do what he did. This is good news.
I wonder if Warren will now merely fund abortion with his private funds.
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posted on
07/03/2003 6:36:54 PM PDT
by
RJL
To: ChocChipCookie
BUMP
To: Ruth A.
I am also impressed with Warren Buffet. He had compassion to do what he did. Not really. It's just that a smooth business operation--with profits flowing in unimpeded--means more to Buffett than a few more corpses for the piles of dead babies he uses his riches to create.
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posted on
07/03/2003 6:40:18 PM PDT
by
madprof98
To: ChocChipCookie
Many of the people who were against BH's funding of abortion were consultants, like you, so I don't think any offense was intended towards you, just towards the funding of these organizations.
To: madprof98
Hey, hasn't Buffet funded the anti-Catholic, pro-abortion Catholics for a Free Choice?
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To: ChocChipCookie
To: RJL
Er...I think I missed something here. If I did, please explain it to me.
First, I congratulate the ladies of the Pampered Chefs for asking Buffett to stop contributing to Planned Parenthood.
Second, it looks to me as though Buffett weaseled out. He has solved his problem by stopping ALL MONEY TO ANY NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION. That way, Planned Parenthood and the other baby killers can't claim they've been singled out. And the pro-life customers have nothing to complain about.
SMART MOVE, but only for Buffett. He did NOT take a stand against killing innocent babies. I wonder how many other people will follow his lead.
I also wonder how many other charities will suffer because Buffett puts business first.
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posted on
07/03/2003 6:47:42 PM PDT
by
kitkat
To: ChocChipCookie
This is the news release at the Berkshire Hathaway website. I don't believe it's been posted yet. All I can say is, wow!
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 3, 2003
Omaha, NE (BRK.A; BRK.B) Berkshire Hathaway has terminated its shareholder-designated contributions program, which has distributed approximately $197 million since it was begun in 1981. This program has allowed holders of Berkshires A shares to designate a per-share sum
for the company to contribute to as many as three charities, the only requirement being that the designee have 501(c)(3) status. The program thus allowed a wide diversity of donations, some of them controversial but all outside the control of Berkshire.
In recent years, about 3,500 charities have been designated annually, with schools the favorite (about 800 different institutions have benefited), followed by more than 400 churches and synagogues. Some institutions were named by many shareholders. Last year, for example, ten shareholders directed funds to Creighton University and 20 named the University of Nebraska.
The program worked well for many years. Recently, however, certain of the donations, including some made by Berkshires chairman, Warren Buffett, have caused harmful criticism to be directed at Berkshires new subsidiary, The Pampered Chef. The independent consultants that serve The Pampered Chef have no responsibility for what Berkshire Hathaway shareholders do, yet the careers of many of these consultants are now suffering because of the contributions program.
Thus, contrary to all that Berkshire has experienced in the past, its ownership is now harming a new subsidiary, even though this company anticipated that association with Berkshire would help rather than hurt its employees and sales field. Moreover, Berkshire greatly admires Doris Christopher, the founder and CEO of The Pampered Chef, and the independent consultants who serve it so well. These circumstances caused Berkshire directors to decide to eliminate the contributions program. Berkshire recognizes that many of its shareholders will regret the loss of this program, but feels that the action it is taking is in the best interest of the company.
All Berkshire subsidiaries, under direction of their local managers, will continue to support local charities in a manner consistent with what they have been doing. The Pampered Chef has traditionally focused on Round-Up from the Heart, Help Whip Cancer and the Family Resiliency Program, and it will continue this focus. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and its subsidiaries engage in a number of diverse business activities among which the most important is the property and casualty insurance business
conducted on both a direct and reinsurance basis.
END
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posted on
07/03/2003 6:47:54 PM PDT
by
ChocChipCookie
(Beware: the Chip is pissed.)
To: ChocChipCookie
I love Pampered Chef EVEN more now. They make the best baking sones on the planet, and that tart maker has been making my kids precious sandwiches for 5 years.
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posted on
07/03/2003 6:49:51 PM PDT
by
Lanza
To: nickcarraway
If you go back and re-read that article, you'll see that American Express is lauded for no longer donating to Planned Parenthood. The problem is, Warren Buffett owns American Express!! The only difference, then, between Amex and Pampered Chef (when this article was written) is that PC has NEVER given a dime to Planned Parenthood, yet the author of that article hammered them anyway.
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posted on
07/03/2003 6:50:20 PM PDT
by
ChocChipCookie
(Beware: the Chip is pissed.)
To: ChocChipCookie
Excerpt:
Thats what makes stay-at-home moms like Tara Siler so unique: After four years of winning recognition as a star sales consultant for The Pampered Chef one of the nations largest and fastest-growing kitchenware companies this spring she gave up her salary, slashing her familys income in half.
Her pro-life convictions led her to resign after she learned her company was bought last fall by Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a conglomerate of corporate heavyweights including Dairy Queen, Sees Candy and Fruit of the Loom. Turns out the new owner, Warren Buffett, is in addition to being the worlds second-wealthiest man one of the abortion industrys top financiers.
For years, his company has funneled profits about $9 million a year to be exact into The Buffett Foundation, which in turn donated at least $11 million to pro-choice and reproductive-rights groups in 2002. Headed by Buffett and his wife, Susan, the foundation bankrolls Planned Parenthood clinics worldwide. Interestingly, the $9 million received by the foundation in 2001 constituted more than half of Berkshires contributions under its charitable giving program that year (over $16 million).
According to Business Week, The Buffett Foundation also made a five-year, $20 million commitment to International Projects Assistance Services the principal manufacturer of suction pumps used in abortions. Its the money to actually do the abortions . . . the nuts and bolts, the hard stuff that he funds, said Steve Mosher, who, as director of the Virginia-based Population Research Institute, spoke on behalf of pro-life shareholders at Berkshires annual meeting last year.
So, despite her $5,000-a-month sales record, Siler didnt hesitate to quit when a fellow Chef told her about that agenda. It wasnt a hard decision because I knew what I had to do, the 30-year-old West Virginia mom told Citizen. But it was a very, very difficult sacrifice. It was four years of my heart and my life.
When I mailed my resignation letter, I didnt want to proofread it because I was afraid if I looked at it, I would change my mind, she said. So I didnt; I just threw it in the mailbox. <>Thats what makes stay-at-home moms like Tara Siler so unique: After four years of winning recognition as a star sales consultant for The Pampered Chef one of the nations largest and fastest-growing kitchenware companies this spring she gave up her salary, slashing her familys income in half. Her pro-life convictions led her to resign after she learned her company was bought last fall by Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a conglomerate of corporate heavyweights including Dairy Queen, Sees Candy and Fruit of the Loom. Turns out the new owner, Warren Buffett, is in addition to being the worlds second-wealthiest man one of the abortion industrys top financiers. For years, his company has funneled profits about $9 million a year to be exact into The Buffett Foundation, which in turn donated at least $11 million to pro-choice and reproductive-rights groups in 2002. Headed by Buffett and his wife, Susan, the foundation bankrolls Planned Parenthood clinics worldwide. Interestingly, the $9 million received by the foundation in 2001 constituted more than half of Berkshires contributions under its charitable giving program that year (over $16 million). According to Business Week, The Buffett Foundation also made a five-year, $20 million commitment to International Projects Assistance Services the principal manufacturer of suction pumps used in abortions. Its the money to actually do the abortions . . . the nuts and bolts, the hard stuff that he funds, said Steve Mosher, who, as director of the Virginia-based Population Research Institute, spoke on behalf of pro-life shareholders at Berkshires annual meeting last year. So, despite her $5,000-a-month sales record, Siler didnt hesitate to quit when a fellow Chef told her about that agenda. It wasnt a hard decision because I knew what I had to do, the 30-year-old West Virginia mom told Citizen. But it was a very, very difficult sacrifice. It was four years of my heart and my life. When I mailed my resignation letter, I didnt want to proofread it because I was afraid if I looked at it, I would change my mind, she said. So I didnt; I just threw it in the mailbox.
Shes not alone. In the last few months, pro-life consultants in several states have resigned or verbally protested their profits going to one of the worlds biggest abortion promoters. Its an insurrection of Chefs, so to speak.
To: ChocChipCookie
sones - uh I meant "stones"
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posted on
07/03/2003 6:51:23 PM PDT
by
Lanza
To: kitkat
Check the earlier article, the majority of his ``charity'' money was going to fund abortions.
To: ChocChipCookie
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posted on
07/03/2003 6:53:53 PM PDT
by
RJayneJ
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To: nickcarraway
Thank you for the reminder. And now not even the Buffett Foundation will be donating money to any non-profit organization. Mr. Buffett will probably still be donating money out of his pocket to his pro-abort causes, but I don't think God is finished with Warren Buffett yet. Who would have predicted that this would ever have happened? Pro-life shareholders have made speeches at shareholder meetings, and even that didn't sway WB. Sure, for him it's probably only the bottom line that matters, but who cares! It's a big step in the right direction.
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posted on
07/03/2003 6:55:44 PM PDT
by
ChocChipCookie
(Beware: the Chip is pissed.)
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