Posted on 10/05/2015 10:59:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Nothing has defined Carly Forina's presidential campaign quite like her outspoken opposition to Planned Parenthood — a point she has brought up repeatedly at debates and press conferences. It might seem odd, then, that her Fiorina Foundation has given half a million dollars to Planned Parenthood since 2011.
The Fiorina Foundation isn't actually, legally, a foundation, per se; it's an account Fiorina and her husband hold with The Ayco Charitable Foundation, a "donor-advised fund" that stashes charitable donations for clients in case they want to quickly receive tax benefits, The Daily Beast explains. One expert on the topic described it as "a charitable savings account"; Fiorina's account just happens to give money to her supposed archenemy, distributing money to five Planned Parenthoods across New York, Connecticut, and Indiana:
If Fiorina feels as strongly as she claims that it's an abomination for American tax dollars — including hers — to be forced to help fund Planned Parenthood, it's perplexing that she would elect to be associated with any group that feels comfortable giving money to Planned Parenthood by choice — on behalf of an individual or not.
Asked if Fiorina has a problem with Ayco distributing funds to Planned Parenthood, and if she's ever lobbied them to stop, [Fiorina's deputy campaign manager Sarah Isgur] Flores said, "Carly has no control over those clients and their giving preferences."
Asked why Fiorina doesn’t just find a donor-advised fund that vows never to give money to Planned Parenthood on behalf of anyone, Flores didn't respond. [The Daily Beast]
The anonymity factor makes it hard to sort through Fiorina's possible motivations. As nonprofit consultant Al Cantor told The Daily Beast, it's a bit of an unsolved mystery. "[Fiorina] may be very generous and we don’t know it, or she may have not given any money out of her fund but got the charitable deduction [anyway], or she may have given to organizations she would rather not be associated with," Cantor said.
Asked if Fiorina has a problem with Ayco distributing funds to Planned Parenthood, and if she's ever lobbied them to stop, [Fiorina's deputy campaign manager Sarah Isgur] Flores said, "Carly has no control over those clients and their giving preferences."Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
I knew her and Trump were joined at the hip. Deux faux conservatives.
You relish making yourself sound absurd, we see.
Go back to a Trump thread and keep chipping!
Maybe, like Obozo, she just read about it herself and didn’t know a thing. /s
This is going to get interesting as the establishment is running out of choices in the coming election.
About the same amount of cash Trump has given to partial-birth abortion lovin’ pols such as Nancy Pelosi, which action had a much greater practical effect of keeping this barbaric practice legal and widespread.
Why does Donald Trump want to murder children?
This does not bode well for Carly.
Is she just anoher hypocrite, or has she really converted to pro-life?
How many abortions has she had? Does she have any living children?
We have to ask these questions.
Gee how rare, a RINO running for POTUS.
Two face Fiorina.
Another reason not to vote for her.
For some arcane, inexplicable reason, I am not at all surprised.
I suspect that her supporters will never even know this. Who is going to tell them?
That goes for me too. Bye, bye, Carly.
“Why does Donald Trump want to murder children?”
Do you walk to work, or carry your lunch?
The fact remains that by giving so much cash to the politicians who were crucial to ensuring that babies would continue to have their brains gored while being torn from limb to limb, Trump has proven that he is basically scum.
And you, mazda77, were beaten up too many times in grade school, so you support Trump and project yourself into Trump’s position while does his tough-guy act and engages in random insults against various people.
The rise of Trump is due almost wholly to the support of the emotionally retarded, such as yourself.
Yea, yea, yea, and your dog ate your homework too.
Well, I try to do my best! I talk to a lot of people.
Back-in-the-day, my late husband worked in IT. The “Holy Grail” was Hewlett-Packard. We heard stories about how WONDERFUL it was to work for them, benefits, salaries, work environment, camaraderie, etc. Perhaps it was all just rumors, but it was the prevailing attitude at the time among techies.
Then, suddenly, the perception of HP being the best place in the world to work in IT dissolved and the products reflected the same malaise.
I submit that perhaps this was during the era that Fiorina was “in charge”.
I don’t know for sure, but it adds up.
I flip the tv dials several times a day, I have not heard one word about this on Fox CNN or MSNBC
Is she getting a free ride for now because she is being pushed to bring down Trump, or so they hope
I remember she was for abortion when she ran for the senate. That was just one of the reasons I did not vote for her then. Boxer creamed her in that election.
What makes her think that she can win a presidential election when Californians didn’t want her as a senator? Because the RNC sees her as an excuse to get Hillary elected.
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