Posted on 10/09/2019 11:08:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Planned Parenthood announced on Wednesday it plans to spend at least $45 million ahead of the 2020 elections, the most it has ever spent during an election cycle. The push comes as abortion rights are under assault across the Midwest and South, with state lawmakers passing abortion bans and restrictions aimed at capturing the attention of the Supreme Court.
The investment intends to fund large-scale grassroots programs and canvassing, digital, television, radio and mail programs in battleground states across the country, according to a press release. Planned Parenthood Votes, the independent expenditure political committee arm of the reproductive health giant, will target nine states in its initial spend, with plans of expanding. Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
"We know this is a fight we can win," said Kelley Robinson, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes.
The funds used for the campaign spend are completely separate from the organization's clinic operations.
During an exclusive interview with CBS News in July, Planned Parenthood's leader Alexis McGill Johnson said the organization doesn't have the luxury of deciding whether the organization is a health care clinic or advocacy group. They've been forced to be both.
"We are primarily a health care provider," said Johnson, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. "We provide access to sexual and reproductive health, in some cases primary care. We're not political by nature but we've been politicized, and that fight has actually been our focus — to ensure that our health centers stay open."
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This org gets hundreds of millions of federal funding. This should be a FEC violation.
Killing babies is not reproductive health
Weird. Someone we know recently had a birthday and suggested donating to pph instead of a gift. How stupid must these assclowns be? What kind of salary did their recently retired CEO make? Crappy retirement pkg? Prolly not.
Well all of that money WOULD let you reach voters.
IF you had not aborted them all.
if they have this much money lying around then there is no need for any federal funding. . . . .
Is anyone mad their tax dollars go to Planned Parenthood which then gives your tax dollars to Democrats?
our federal taxes paying for the mass-murder of innocent babies....and all this corruption lobbying
congress forces us to pay fed income taxes
congress gives $$$$ of it to PP
PP gives $$$ of it back to congress
everyone skims off their “share” and gets rich off our taxes
(and the babies keep getting slaughtered)
“This should be a FEC violation.”
Absolutely. If this isn’t going to be addressed, wouldn’t it be more efficient to just have armed IRS agents come to our doors and force us to donate money directly to Democrat candidates?
That’s essentially what’s happening now regardless.
I hope none of that is tax payer monies.
Didn’t the Reps leave the $ in the budget without a fight?
Which should prove the lie that they’re all about health.
They’re a PAC with services.
Money Laundering by a dirty organization?
Don’t forget the millions the congress gave to Mueller to spread around.
Our tax dollars at work - against us.
>>wouldn’t it be more efficient to just have armed IRS agents come to our doors and force us to donate money directly to Democrat candidates?<<
Don’t give them any ideas!
Using tx[ayer money to finance an election is, I think, illegal.
Something is rotten in Denmark. They spend 45 million in elections, to get people elected that will FUND THEM?
Money is fungible, of course it is tax payer monies.
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