Posted on 12/29/2007 1:05:49 AM PST by Fred
Former governor Mitt Romney's economic development agency granted initial approval to a tax-exempt bond last year for a Planned Parenthood clinic in Worcester that will provide abortions, just two months before he left office and began highlighting his antiabortion position as a presidential candidate.
Asked about the $5 million financial deal yesterday, the Romney campaign said the former governor was not aware it was under consideration when Planned Parenthood won preliminary approval in November 2006.
Romney repeatedly used the power of his office while governor to advance socially conservative positions, including restricting stem cell research, pushing abstinence-only sex education in schools, and vetoing a bill to increase access to emergency contraception in hospitals.
In the case of the abortion clinic funding deal, the Republican candidate's spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Romney would have attempted to block it - if he had known about it.
"Mitt Romney is prolife," Fehrnstrom said. "He did not know about this loan. It was made by an agency that does not report to the governor. If it did, he would have told them not to do it."
In additon to providing abortion services, the 10,000-square-foot Planned Parenthood clinic planned for Worcester will offer Plan B emergency contraception, also known as the "morning after pill," which also is opposed by antiabortion advocates.
Jeffrey M. Berry, a political science professor at Tufts University, said he was surprised that Romney and his aides did not catch such a politically sensitive financial deal making its way through his economic development agency.
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It’s time for your meds, granny.
yes my meds are the sunshine in the Lord’s scriptures!
Read the Ten Commandments. You violate #1 with your worship of Romney.
It is an attack from the left, knowing it will feed the obsessed hate-Romney crowd in the GOP with material to continue their attacks.
Notice how the left media rarely goes to THIS length to manufacture dirt on any other candidate.
Leftists saw a conservative Romney win in a liberal state like Massechusetts, and it scares them to death that he will do it nationally.
Furthermore, this bogus story is nothing but a “seven degrees of separation” slime piece.
The local media did the same (phony connect the dots) hit jobs to my excellent conservative Congressman (Republican) in ‘06 — causing him to lose.
And to you, Romney is responsible for every sin committed by mankind, including the time Eve gave Adam the apple.
All 50 states have built and continue to build Planned Parenthoods, the financing of which were often approved by VERY conservatives Republican Goverenors.
It is something pushed and mandated by the feds.
Lastly, while we as conservatives dont like Planned Parenthood, they dont provide abortions.
If your inference is that it is liberals who are pushing Mitt Romney, you couldn't be more wrong.
I take second place to no one in being an ultra conservative.
I suppose you think Coulter, Hewitt, Jones III, and dozens of other rock-ribbed conservatives are ALSO liberal trolls.
By the way, here is an interesting website which tracks the endorsements for each candidate. It is not that great, but it is something.
http://race42008.com/category/endorsements-of-2008-presidential-candidates/
If I can document a Planned Parenthood office getting funding under a Republican conservative Governor, or Congressman, or Senator in one of the other 49 states -- will you also obsessively slam them as being "perv liberals"??
Thank you. Thank you.
Finally, a rational comment.
And thank you for promoting YOUR candidate, and not simply dumping on Mitt Romney, which is the obsession of a small segment of Freepers.
The preliminary application was considered in September, when he was well into campaigning for president and Healey was really running the show in MA.
He didn’t know about it, it was approved after he left, and was signed off on by Patrick.
Keep reaching though.
Close. Romney would be the snake in the garden. :-)
Romney repeatedly used the power of his office while governor to advance socially conservative positions, including restricting stem cell research, pushing abstinence-only sex education in schools, and vetoing a bill to increase access to emergency contraception in hospitals.
Could be if I was, but since I'm not...
"I take second place to no one in being an ultra conservative."
You know what happens when you move too far to the right ? You end up on the left.
"I suppose you think Coulter, Hewitt, Jones III, and dozens of other rock-ribbed conservatives are ALSO liberal trolls."
If you support Joe Isuzu Romney knowing his record, you are a liberal RINO. If you support him NOT knowing his record, you are misinformed.
"By the way, here is an interesting website which tracks the endorsements for each candidate. It is not that great, but it is something."
http://race42008.com/category/endorsements-of-2008-presidential-candidates/
OK.
Again, how many BILLIONS of dollars did Fred Thompson vote to give Planned Parenthood via Title X “Family Planning” funding? He even highlighted his votes to provide Title X taxpayer funding in a candidate questionnaire for a pro-abortion group.
LLS
TheLion, when asked to prove it always answers the same way. I can find absolutely no evidence that Michael Reagan is endorsing Mitt....not on Mitt's site, not on Michael Reagan's web site, not through a web search. TheLion also has claimed that Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin have endorsed Mitt and there's no proof of that either. TheLion = TheLiar
You are seriously misinformed if you believe that.
While I wouldn’t call it an endorsement, he certainly indicates here that Mitt Romney is an acceptable conservative candidate:
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“One of the criticisms about former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney focuses on his record concerning the abortion issue. We are told by the modern day Diogenes clones that he can’t be trusted to fight abortion because he once, more or less, supported a woman’s right to butcher her baby.
It may come as a surprise to these purists, but Ronald Reagan once supported abortion too. Yet nobody ever questioned his strong pro-life credentials after his conversion to Republicanism. They accepted his sincerity. Why can’t they accept Mitt Romney’s?
Romney’s record shows he should be totally acceptable to all conservatives, yet because of one dubious question concerning the validity of his conversion to the pro-life side, he is deemed unsuitable to carry the conservative banner”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19462
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715902/posts
“””During her CPAC speech, Coulter apparently endorsed Romney, saying, “I think he’s probably our best candidate”:
AUDIENCE MEMBER: What do you think of Governor Romney’s candidacy for presidency?
COULTER: What do I think of Governor Romney’s candidacy for presidency? I think he’s probably our best candidate. I mean, I think it is fair to say — and this is coming from someone who supported Pete DuPont, Alan Keyes, Pat Buchanan, Steve Forbes. So, you know, it’s not like I won’t go for an underdog. But I think we have to be serious about this, and I think our choice is among Gingrich, Giuliani, McCain and Romney. And Giuliani is very, very liberal. When this country gets to the point — I mean, I have a love letter to him in my current book, Godless. What he did for New York was magnificent. But when this country gets to the point where both presidential candidates support abortion, I think we can hang it up as a country.
And McCain, I think has some problems, because everyone who supports him would have to switch party registrations to vote for him. I love Gingrich. I think he’s brilliant. He was crucial, the man for his time. We don’t know if he’s running for president, but assuming he is, I kind of think his time has passed, and I don’t know, you know, it could come back again, like ‘80s music, but I think his time is over. And you have to say about Romney, he tricked liberals into voting for him. I like a guy — I like a guy who hoodwinks liberals so easily. And also, the one thing that I have a very soft spot for is that I love Mormons. And the reason why I love Mormons, well, among other things, is — you may have forgotten this — Bill Clinton in Utah in 1992 came in third in Utah. Now, that’s a fine state.
Coulter also touted Romney’s position on gay rights, saying:
COULTER: And of course, if you’re working for a Republican candidate, you’ll meet some nice heterosexual guys. By the way, before I let that slide, I do want to point out one thing that has been driving me crazy with the media, how they keep describing Mitt Romney’s position as being “pro-gays, and that’s going to upset right-wingers.” Well, you know, screw you, I’m not anti-gay. We’re against gay marriage. I don’t want gays to be discriminated against. I mean, I think we have, in addition to blacks, I don’t know why all gays aren’t Republicans. I think we have the pro-gay position, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts. Gays make a lot of money, and they’re victims of crime. I mean, the way — no, they are. They should be with us. But the media portrays us. If they could get away with it, they would start saying, you know, “Mitt Romney, he’s pro-civil rights, and that’s going to upset conservatives.” No. OK. Sorry, go ahead.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200703030002
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715902/posts
“””During her CPAC speech, Coulter apparently endorsed Romney, saying, “I think he’s probably our best candidate”:
AUDIENCE MEMBER: What do you think of Governor Romney’s candidacy for presidency?
COULTER: What do I think of Governor Romney’s candidacy for presidency? I think he’s probably our best candidate. I mean, I think it is fair to say — and this is coming from someone who supported Pete DuPont, Alan Keyes, Pat Buchanan, Steve Forbes. So, you know, it’s not like I won’t go for an underdog. But I think we have to be serious about this, and I think our choice is among Gingrich, Giuliani, McCain and Romney. And Giuliani is very, very liberal. When this country gets to the point — I mean, I have a love letter to him in my current book, Godless. What he did for New York was magnificent. But when this country gets to the point where both presidential candidates support abortion, I think we can hang it up as a country.
And McCain, I think has some problems, because everyone who supports him would have to switch party registrations to vote for him. I love Gingrich. I think he’s brilliant. He was crucial, the man for his time. We don’t know if he’s running for president, but assuming he is, I kind of think his time has passed, and I don’t know, you know, it could come back again, like ‘80s music, but I think his time is over. And you have to say about Romney, he tricked liberals into voting for him. I like a guy — I like a guy who hoodwinks liberals so easily. And also, the one thing that I have a very soft spot for is that I love Mormons. And the reason why I love Mormons, well, among other things, is — you may have forgotten this — Bill Clinton in Utah in 1992 came in third in Utah. Now, that’s a fine state.
Coulter also touted Romney’s position on gay rights, saying:
COULTER: And of course, if you’re working for a Republican candidate, you’ll meet some nice heterosexual guys. By the way, before I let that slide, I do want to point out one thing that has been driving me crazy with the media, how they keep describing Mitt Romney’s position as being “pro-gays, and that’s going to upset right-wingers.” Well, you know, screw you, I’m not anti-gay. We’re against gay marriage. I don’t want gays to be discriminated against. I mean, I think we have, in addition to blacks, I don’t know why all gays aren’t Republicans. I think we have the pro-gay position, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts. Gays make a lot of money, and they’re victims of crime. I mean, the way — no, they are. They should be with us. But the media portrays us. If they could get away with it, they would start saying, you know, “Mitt Romney, he’s pro-civil rights, and that’s going to upset conservatives.” No. OK. Sorry, go ahead.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200703030002
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