Please take a moment to let your friends know that poinsettas are definitely out this year!
What's an Ecke?
I think you will have more success if you do.
You've got local greenhouses that grow them most likely.
Are Christmas trees out this year as well?
Thanks for the tip. I will ask my local florists where they get their poinsettias before I buy.
And no, DU, this is not a fascist boycott of Ecke Greenhouses. It is free people in a free country making an informed decision in the free marketplace. If Ecke Greenhouses and other businesses want the business of people who care about the lives of unborn children, then they are free to change their policies and donation practices in this free marketplace.
Why would I punish my local greenhouse that has been growing them this year to see at Christmas? They supply most of the stores around here.
Elisabeth Ecke may be related to Paul Ecke, but I didn't see anything in the article that ties her to the Paul Ecke Ranch business or that the Paul Ecke ranch supports planned parenthood.
Those "pass this along to everyone on your list!!!" emails are usually a crock.
The name of the plant is spelled poinsettia, btw.
Having recently bought poinsettias, as part of the celebration of our Lords miraculous birth, I had wished that someone had told me the truth sooner.
So this year I'm telling as many people as possible. Before they go shopping.
1 posted on 11/13/2006 8:22:40 AM MST by proudpapa
Did Y'shua command us to celebrate His birth ? But I do know that Y'shua commanded me to obey His commandments. Did Y'shua command us to to do social action ?
b'shem Y'shua John 14:15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
Paul Ecke was a staunch Republican and enormous contributor to Republican campaigns, as is most of the Ecke family today. I worked on three campaigns in San Diego in the early 1990s and can vouch for the contributions of the Eckes.
Eek!
Why did you wait 10 months to post about an email you received in January?
Why condemn all growers, especially the locals who depend on selling their supply to finance their spring flowers?
Isn't it a little early to be buying poinsettias? Good grief. It's not even Thanksgiving yet.
Anyway, I buy mine from the local greenhouse. I know for a fact that they grow their poinsettias themselves.
This doesn't make any sense. Seems like an awfully diluted "protest". I might suggest that there are more productive anti-abortion statements to make. Just MHO.
Using Christmas to support Planned Parenthood, The James Hartline Report Action Center
How Christians Are Funding Planned Parenthood: Welcome To The Garden Of Death:
Ecke's Ranch - America's Biggest Supplier of Poinsettias and One of The Biggest Financier's of Planned Parenthood Action Alert! November 27, 2006
Fortune smiles on Eckes, though voters didn't
The Company She Keeps LOCAL PRO-ABORT HEAVIES LINE UP FOR ZETTEL
One of The Biggest Financiers of Planned Parenthood
http://www.electiontrack.com/lookup.php?committee=1276142&orderby=amount-asc
Lizabeth Ecke of Carlsbad gave $100, $900, & $3,000 to the No on 85 campaign. Jinx Ecke of La Jolla gave $2,550 & $4,500 to the No on 85 campaign. Thus these two Ecke women continued their financing of the abortion industry by giving thousands of dollars to prevent the Prop. 85 - Parental Notification Law from passing in 2006. Purchasing Poinsettias from the Ecke Family is allowing these women to fund the abortion industry!
Here is a list of Ecke Family connections listed as Planned Parenthood's biggest San Diego donors:
1. The Ecke Family
2. Elisabeth (Jinx) Ecke
3. Lizbeth A. Ecke and David Meyer
4. Paul Ecke III and Julie Hampton
5. Paul and Magdalena Ecke Poinsettia Foundation
6. Sara Ecke May and Andrew W. May Family
Carlsbad, California will now be more capable than ever of continuing to exterminate unborn babies thanks to 74 year-old Ecke Family matriarch Elisabeth "Jinx" Ecke. According to a November 17, 2005 North County Times report (http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/11/18/news/coastal/23_38_1511_17_05.txt , Mrs. Ecke, who did not abort her own children, joined those same three grown children, Paul Ecke III, Lizbeth Ecke and Sara Ecke May, to contribute $250,000 of the needed $340,000 for the renovation of the new Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic at 1820 Marron Road in Carlsbad (http://www.planned.org/site/PageServer?pagename=HS_CarlsbadClinic . At the dedication of the new Carlsbad abortion provider, clinic staff honored the Ecke Family with a catered reception. While many of those in attendance chowed down on fancy food, some of the women there, gleefully reiterated their increased drive to support the abortion movement.
According to a Logan Jenkins column in the San Diego Union Tribune www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051119/news_1mi19jenkins.html the Ecke financed abortion clinic in Carlsbad will now be able to "service" up to 1,500 patients a month, twice the number of the old Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Oceanside, California. He also quotes Paul Ecke III, the abortion fanatic's son, who seems to be as agressively supportive of abortion as his mother:
"As children, we licked a lot of envelopes, we made a lot of phone calls, we walked door-to-door to encourage people to vote. Those causes were political campaigns, 4-H club, school bonds, Planned Parenthood and others.
"Our mother demonstrated to us that a family like ours -- even though you've got a business and we all chipped in and worked hard in the business -- we also learned to give back. You don't do things because you should, you actually have to do them, they become must-do things."
Paul Ecke III
Without question, this Ecke Family name will forever be enshrined in the halls of pure evil. The diabolical efforts of the San Diego Ecke clan to associate its name with family and children's charities while pouring huge amounts of money into the abortion industry, is one of the great satanic stories in modern America.
Mrs. Ecke's socialistic beliefs and abortion fanaticism even extends to limiting the role of parents in their children's lives. In the recent Prop. 73 initiative which would have legalized parental notification when their little girls are considering abortions at Planned Parenthood, Mrs. Ecke was a big financier to defeat the proposition. According to the website Election Track, Mrs. Ecke donated $4,500 to the No On Prop. 73 campaign
Magdalena Ecke, the original wife of Ecke Ranch founder Paul Ecke, has her named attached to the YMCA: Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA http://ecke.ymca.org. The idea that the Young Men's Christian Association YMCA, would allow the family name of one of America's biggest financiers of abortion to be attached to its Christian organization is truly an abomination of Biblical proportions. This marketing of evil by the Ecke Family seems to know no scrupulous boundaries.
While the Ecke Clan is assuring that there will continue to be an assembly line of unborn infant exterminations at Planned Parenthood's abortion mills, they are actually utilizing a network of charitable events with young children to counter their true
devious image. The Paul Ecke Poinsettias programs http://www.pauleckepoinsettias.com merchandises children's fundraising programs at Christmas time, as well as other elementary school endeavors http://www.pauleckepoinsettias.com/html/merch_fund.html
One of the Ecke's most vile efforts in this dark repackaging effort, is their program, "Kids Flowers" www.kidsflowers.com. With Kids Flowers, Ecke Ranch supplies their poinsettias and other flowers to elementary schools for fundraising projects for those same schools. The company website states about the Kids Flowers program: http://www.kidsflowers.com/index.html "It's All About Kids. And Folks saying "Ooooh!"
A refreshing new way to raise funds for your school.
When parents, who object to the horrific Ecke-sponsorship of Planned Parenthood, bring their children to Legoland, they may not realize that Legoland sits on Carltas Company property www.carltas.com. The connection between the Ecke family and Legoland is clear. On the Legoland website for youth programs, the Ecke named Magdalena Ecke YMCA is listed as a location for Legoland Youth Camp http://www.lego.com/legoland/califo...sp?locale=2057. It is truly disturbing that thousands of parents opposed to abortion, are unwittingly paying millions of dollars in ticket sales to Legoland, while the amusement park landowner is tied to the Ecke Family.
When history is recorded and reviewed, the keen observer will pause to analyze the Ecke Family's obsession with the baby-killing insanity of the abortion industry. The mockery of family values by the Ecke-Planned Parenthood connections will be scrutinized by Christians for decades to come: How could Christians fill churches with Ecke-produced poinsettias and the bank accounts of Ecke-subsidized Planned Parenthood clinics at the same time? Hopefully, history will also record that one of the great moral indignations occurred as the result of an informed and awakened Christian community becoming aware of, and outraged over, the Ecke-Poinsettia-Planned Parenthood-Abortion connection.
"I was a Republican. I did stand up. I got crucified for it and finally said, 'To hell with it,'" says Elisabeth "Jinx" Ecke, a longtime Planed Parenthood supporter and board member in San Diego, Calif. "I've tried to support Republican candidates in the California Assembly, and they swear on a stack of bibles that they'll vote pro- choice. Then they go to Sacramento and they vote anti-choice. I'm done." Ecke, 74, cast her first vote for Dwight Eisenhower back in 1953. Four years ago, she reregistered by checking the "Decline to State" box. "I'm supporting mostly Democrats for one simple reason: choice," she says. "People say you can't be a one issue voter and I say, 'Yes I can.'" http://www.alternet.org/rights/34104/
Take Action Now!
"Choosing Babies Over Poinsettias!"
Take The "Choosing Babies Over Poinsettias Pledge!"
Until the Ecke Family completely stops funding the abortion industry and Planned Parenthood, will you commit to stop purchasing poinsettias? Will you encourage your church to stop purchasing poinsettias? It's that simple. Spread the word. Encourage everyone in America to stop purchasing poinsettias until the Ecke Clan stops supporting the killing of unborn babies. You can also contact your local nurseries, stores and florists and tell them to stop carrying Ecke products, until they stop funding Planned Parenthood.
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www.ecke.com/new1/brokers.asp
http://www.ecke.com/new1/rootnsell.asp
www.theflowerfields.com/ffa/retailer.aspx
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