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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGin and Tacos: RACE FOR THE CURE TO BEING RELEVANT
http://www.ginandtacos.com/2012/02/02/race-for-the-cure-to-being-relevant/As a preface, please consult Lea Goldman's outstanding, well-researched article "The Big Business of Breast Cancer", which represents what may be the one and only outgoing link to Marie Claire magazine I will ever offer. It details the proliferation of scams in the charity industry (a fitting, if oxymoronic, term) that has sprouted up around breast cancer. There are many organizations that use the funds they raise primarily to raise more funds and pay handsome salaries to the administrators and their talentless family members. It is a long read but well worth it. Note well the point that breast cancer research is hardly suffering for lack of funds. The author conservatively estimates six billion dollars funneled toward research annually with almost no progress made since the 1970s.
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Wednesday's decision has been described as motivated by pressure from pro-life groups, but in reality Komentm is (and always has been) run by right wingers and closely aligned with conservative politics. The organization's current president, Karen Handel, ran for governor of Georgia in 2010 and lost in the Republican primary. Sarah Palin endorsed her. During her campaign she promised repeatedly to defund Planned Parenthood. She took over Komentm a few months ago. You do the math. On a personal note, Karen, I hope you get cancer. I hope the doctors find it too late to do anything but treat your pain, and I hope they do a poor job of that. Cut and paste that at your leisure to prove how mean-spirited and Uncivil liberals are.
Komen's founder and CEO, Nancy Brinker, is a big money Republican with ties to the past three Republican administration who received a political appointment from George W. Bush as a reward for her fundraising largesse. She draws a salary of $459,000 annually, money well spent compared to the 39% of its budget the foundation spends on "public health education" (i.e., marketing itself). Not to mention that they also spend a million bucks per year in legal fees to threaten other non-profit groups who use the phrase For the Curetm, to which Komentm claims to have intellectual property rights.
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Am I too cynical? Consider their lack of discretion in choosing Partnerstm. Nothing says "We're serious about stomping out cancer!" like a pink bucket of fried chicken or pink bags of deep fried snacks. It's ridiculous on that "Earth Day brought to you by Ford" level.
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Gin and Tacos: RACE FOR THE CURE TO BEING RELEVANT (Original Post)
TalkingDog
Feb 2012
OP
right up there with the new Monsanto ads that include farmers (that they are screwing).
NRaleighLiberal
Feb 2012
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NRaleighLiberal
(60,040 posts)1. right up there with the new Monsanto ads that include farmers (that they are screwing).
EC
(12,287 posts)2. The only reason many of the rich have charity balls
and organizations is so they can pay themselves huge salaries and have lavish affairs in the name of fundraisers. Most do seem to be repubs. Scammers.