Posted on 04/04/2012 12:04:10 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Forbes
Ryan Holiday, Contributor
4/03/2012 @ 7:58AM |99,568 views
Why Wouldn't Planned Parenthood Take $500,000?
I tried. I really did. I was ready to arrange a $500,000 donation to Planned Parenthood in Texas. The donor was in the car on the way to meet the CEO, checkbook in hand. But then Planned Parenthood called and told him to turn around. They didn’t want his money.
Want is the only word for it. Because, Planned Parenthood sure as hell needs it. See, in Texas, Governor Rick Perry has viciously attacked family planning and health organizations like Planned Parenthood. Not only eliminating local funding, but depriving them, this year, of more than $35 million in federal funding. The situation has already become “acute:”
Those are their words, not mine. So why did Planned Parenthood turn down nearly a half a million dollars they could put to good use?
Because the donor was bestselling author Tucker Max.
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Sigh.
Are you Arec Barrwin from the Film Actors’ Guild?
One and the same
| I can't think of anything decent to say. And it's Holy Week. So let's just say I'm glad PP didn't get the money and leave it at that. |
ROTFLMAO!!!!
I have been reading this guy’s stuff for years. So damn funny most times, irreverent at others.
Just stoopit irony here.
LOL
Why Planned Parenthood, when there are plenty of legitimate clinics around that actually provide medical care?
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