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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
One Resignation is not Enough: How will Komen Make Amends?
This has been quite a week. Nancy Brinker and the Susan G. Komen Foundation showed their true colors this week. First they resolved that Planned Parenthood was no longer eligible to apply for their grants because they were under investigation by a member of the House of Representatives. They immediately saw the power of the women's rights movement, and it convinced them to apologize and kind of sort of take it back. But that was not enough. The American Public was still angry about the attack on women's rights, Komen needed to make amends. And now today, we awake to the resignation of Karen Handel, their relatively new appointed Senior Vice President for Public Policy. And I say...Karen is their scapegoat. Who could forget Andrea Mitchell's interview with Nancy Brinker last week where she said:
BRINKER: Well, let me just for the record tell you, Karen did not have anything to do with this decision. This was decided at the board level and also by our mission,
If that is true, then Karen's resignation is not enough!
Komen has been influenced by politicians since day one. Brinker built SGK for the cure by using those republican connections and she, herself, was appointed to Bush's staff. They showed their true colors last week and those are painted by the Board of Directors of the Organization. Board members, Nancy Brinker and John Rafaelli assured the public that the decision was a board decision, not influenced by Handel. Shouldn't be held accountable for the decision to hire people like Karen Handel and for their criteria in evaluating funding recipients? Will they hold their sponsors to similar criteria?
I will continue to support worthy breast cancer organizations like the one I co-founded, The Young Survival Coalition and the only one that has set a deadline to end breast cancer, The National Breast Cancer Coalition.
BRINKER: Well, let me just for the record tell you, Karen did not have anything to do with this decision. This was decided at the board level and also by our mission,
If that is true, then Karen's resignation is not enough!
Komen has been influenced by politicians since day one. Brinker built SGK for the cure by using those republican connections and she, herself, was appointed to Bush's staff. They showed their true colors last week and those are painted by the Board of Directors of the Organization. Board members, Nancy Brinker and John Rafaelli assured the public that the decision was a board decision, not influenced by Handel. Shouldn't be held accountable for the decision to hire people like Karen Handel and for their criteria in evaluating funding recipients? Will they hold their sponsors to similar criteria?
I will continue to support worthy breast cancer organizations like the one I co-founded, The Young Survival Coalition and the only one that has set a deadline to end breast cancer, The National Breast Cancer Coalition.
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