Posted on 12/18/2007 8:26:45 AM PST by JRochelle
Mitt Romney was fully aware of a $150 donation to Planned Parenthood made by check in his wife's name and indeed himself attended the Massachusetts Planned Parenthood fundraising event in 1994 in connection with the donation, according to former Massahcusetts Planned Parenthood President Nicki Nicholas Gamble. This contradicts previous statements by the Romney campaign.
In April of this year ABC news reported that Romney's wife Ann had made a $150 donation to Planned Parenthood in 1994. The story reported that Romney spokesman Kevin Madden contended that " an internal review of Romney's personal records has not turned up any instances in which Romney, a Massachusetts Republican, himself sent money to groups that supported expanded abortion rights." Madden also said that "he did not know whether the former governor was aware of the donation, but he noted that Romney had been publicly committed to upholding a woman's right to an abortion until late 2004." In August ABC reported that Mrs. Romney said "I don't even remember writing the check."
In fact Romney personally attended the Planned Parenthood event in question on June 12, 1994. Gamble, the President of Massachsuetts Planned Parenthood in 1994, also attended the event at the home of a Republican, Eleanor Bleakie, the sister-in-law of a Planned Parenthood Board member. Both Romney and Michael Kennedy, who appeared on behalf of nephew of Ted Kennedy, attended the event. Ms. Gamble says that it would have be routine to invite pro-choice candidates currently seeking office. Checks were solicited both on the invitation and at the event. Romney and his wife both attended and the check written in Mrs. Romney's name was one of those donations made in response to the fundraising appeal.
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Nope. I tore it to pieces.
No, Reagan from radically pro-abortion to pro-life inside of two years. Nor did his conversion conveniently come right before he decided to run for President.
And, this is far from the only issue Romney has flip-flopped in a span of a few short years.
You are not proud of your god-given fertility then. Prochoice movement hate the fecunidty of the ancient,holy womb-man.
I am not from Massachusetts and i am not a liar and a spammer like you are.
He gets a Christmas card every year from Darth Vader.
If he did all that, he would have gotten high grade from the Cato Institute, which didn't get.
He RAISED fees by $500 million in Massachusetts. That is how he balanced the budget, which he was required to do by law.
Further, fiscal conservatives don't push socialized health care plans which dramatically increase spending.
I was referring to Slick Willard.
I do not spam. Since you said I do, you are a liar, despite your denial.
The point I was trying to make was that if the wife of a candidate today, was to say she consulted an astrologer, he wouldn’t stand a chance.
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Using Fees to balance spending is a conservative fiscal policy. Fees are paid by the user of the services and if the services cost more than the fees they pay, then fees have to be increased. This is a user pay system and is solid conservative fiscal policy.
I am not aware of the CATO rating, i doubt the rating was given for Romney’s fiscal and budget initiatives.
He threatened not to call out her secret name when he got to heaven...
I don’t feel you did, but okay.
Sounds like I was right back then when this was originally brought up.
I'll bet if you check, the suggested donation for attending the event was either $75 or $150. Like I said previously, I've seen this before with a number of Republican candidates. They or their wives attend an event, pay the expected donation/fee/whatever, and they get creamed later for "donating" to that cause.
Our AWESOME and very conservative State Republican Party Chairman in Arizona got caught up in this same stupid kind of "gotcha" game. He's a hardcore, pro-life conservative, in fact the moderates hated him and ran against him because he was "too conservative". Yet, those who don't understand that perfect is often the enemy of good and who demand an impossible level of lifelong perfection in a conservative candidate (and his wife), attacked Randy Pullen and almost cost him the election to National Committeeman and then to State Party Chairman. Pullen was the conservative committeman who worked to toughen the illegal immigration portion of the GOP platform and has been a champion of the pro-life plank.
It would have been a bad thing for conservatives if such "gotcha" games about things that happened over a decade ago, brought up out of pure ignorance and malice, had kept Pullen out of his party positions. The same thing is going on with Romney and his true opponents, Giuliani and Clinton, are playing you and your type like a Stradivarius.
Randy Pullen, by the way, was one of the originators and central organizers of the successful Proposition 200 movement in Arizona which cracked down on benefits for illegal aliens and demanded proper identification to vote. He made national news for this proposition which has been emulated in several states.
If there's anything that offends me as much asn liberal Democrats it's so-called Republicans who object to truly conservative Republicans on the basis of ONE ISSUE that's already part of the Republican platform!!! (So I guess that both makes you a One-Issue Objector & according to your own personal standard, makes you offensive to yourself!)
I learned things I never knew, or maybe cared to know.
Life happens, and hopefully we all get smarter.”
My views are probably similar. I would have been described as unaware of what abortion really was before having children.
The ultra sound of our first daughter made a huge impression on me concerning the life issue. I find it to be an extremely evil thing.
The problem with Romney on this issue is that he h supported abortion well after his kids (5 I think) were born. He would have personally experienced the birth of a new baby more than once. Yet he was still in favor of letting a woman kill her own child after this.
And then when it appeared he would be moving out the Massachusetts political arena into a more conservative one; his positions started changing.
That’s not the sign of a changed person.
That’s just saying what you think you need to say to get something done.
BTW the CATO institute is a Libertarian institute and not a conservative one, check the high ratings they give to some Dem governors.
The Club for Growth and Heritage foundation are Conservative organisations and both give positive reports on Romney and his record.
Stuart...it obviously doesn't mean much, if anything, to you. But can you agree....that it means a lot to others?
I guess you’ll just make out of anything, whatever you want.
And I guess...you will continue to make it appear like it's nothing.
BTW...I don't give .10 cents to entities that I don't agree with. Do you?
Obviously, it means a lot to some.
To me, it is nothing, besides, I never planned on voting for him anyway.
Sometimes.
Maybe you should post this in “Breaking News”. </sarcasm>
Did you miss the half-dozen or so debates in which he said he has always been personally pro-life, but was wrong about the government’s role regarding the abortion issue?
“Did they have the dog on the roof of the car when they went to this?”
LOL
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