[net-gold] MEDICAL: DISEASES: CANCER: BREAST CANCER : ORGANIZATIONS : POLITICS: False Apology: At Least Four Komen Recipients -- and Sponsors Like Bank of America -- Are 'Under Investigation'
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- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:50:41 -0500 (EST)
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MEDICAL: DISEASES: CANCER: BREAST CANCER :
ORGANIZATIONS :
POLITICS:
False Apology: At Least Four Komen Recipients --
and Sponsors Like Bank of America -- Are 'Under Investigation'
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False Apology: At Least Four Komen Recipients --
and Sponsors Like Bank of America -- Are 'Under Investigation'
Richard (RJ) Eskow.
Consultant, Writer and Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's Future
Posted: 02/ 4/2012 12:49 am
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
rj-eskow/false-apology-at-least-fo_b_1254085.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/6qmfcj8
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The Susan G. Komen Foundation has reversed its defunding of Planned
Parenthood, at least temporarily, but the falsehoods and hypocrisy haven't
ended. An investigation has revealed that at least four other
organizations have received Komen money while under federal investigation,
while others have been the subjects of recent investigations, and a lot of
the money Komen hands out was provided by sponsors who were also being
investigated.
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The Komen Foundation hasn't been leveling with the public. Even its
apology was disingenuous.
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The organization is behaving more like Bank of America, one of its most
prominent sponsors. Like a Wall Street bank, its using its monopoly power
to crush competitors, dictate its terms to the public, and to speak both
disingenuously and hypocritically to the American people. The Susan G.
Komen organization has become "too big to fail."
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"Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by
not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation,"
said a statement issued today. But the evidence shows that no such policy
was ever enforced for anyone but Planned Parenthood.
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"We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying
investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not
political," the statement continued. Yet criminal investigations were
ignored, and only the politically-based investigation resulted in action.
The only logical explanation is that this policy never existed, or was
invented solely for the purpose of defunding Planned Parenthood.
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Monopoly to Monopoly
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And while the alleged policy was aimed at grant recipients, not donors,
the charity's increasingly implausible claim reeks of hypocrisy when the
sources of its money are considered. Several large Komen donors are also
the targets of past or current investigations. Bank of America, which is
prominently displayed on the Komen website as a member of its "Million
Dollar Council Elite," has paid tens of millions to settle fraud charges
in recent years as the result of "federal investigations."
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The Susan G. Komen Foundation targeted Planned Parenthood for moral scorn
to justify a decision that we now know to be political, while accepting
money from organizations that are under investigation and giving to others
in the same condition.
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That's what happens when a single charity pursues and achieves excessive
control over one area of need.
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Additional Topics Covered in This Article:
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Double Standard
The Million-Dollar Council Elite...
... Million Dollar Settlements, That Is
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Resist -- But Give if You Can
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It would be tragic if women's cancer services lost funding as a result of
this scandal. But the Susan G. Komen Foundation story appears to be one of
power abuse, corporate cronyism, and politicized decision-making. The
Komen group has been extremely aggressive in its attempts to force other
such groups off the field so that it can dominate breast cancer giving.
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That's too much power for one organization to have -- especially if it has
shown itself to be unwilling to act transparently and change direction
when it abuses that power. Stem cell research is a highly promising avenue
for a cure. If the organization that's moved so aggressively to dominate
funding refuses to fund it, an approach has been partially obstructed that
might eventually save millions of lives in the future.
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I'm not rich, but I plan to give more money to both Planned Parenthood and
another cancer research organization as a result of this incident. I hope
others will do the same. This could all turn out for the best, especially
if the fall of one organization raises breast cancer awareness and
increases support for treatment and research.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
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