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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He’s a Massachusetts Republican - what do you expect? The political spectrum down there runs from far left to center.
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13 years ago. The audacity!!
I know. If this is all they can dig up on Mitt, I’d say he’s in pretty good shape. But they keep trying, don’t they.
It the lying.
He even denied any knowledge of his wife writing a check to PP.
ITS not it!
$150 contribution to the Romney’s, is like you or I dropping 25cents into a donation box somewhere. I’m thinking it was more a gesture, than an actual statement.
I don’t think Mitt keeps his wife on such a short leash to know about every check she writes.
Did they have the dog on the roof of the car when they went to this?
“This guy is such a liar. Poor Ann had to take all the blame for the donation to PP.”
Now the independent, free thinking wife has become pro-life, just like here non-authoritarian husband, I wonder what her “epiphany” was?
Yep it’s the LIE that will get you when the act otherwise wouldn’t have.
Nikki Gamble was separated at birth from Jabba the Hutt.
‘He’s a Massachusetts Republican - what do you expect? The political spectrum down there runs from far left to center’
Yep. If he acted in a manner that would garner 100% political support here at FR, he wouldn’t BE a former governor in the first place.
13 years ago. And Mitt’s still lying about it today.
The tone is that it is INCREDIBLE that a woman not remember writing a check of an amount insignificant to her 13 years ago.
What an absurd article.
Had Mitt written a $150 check to Dr. Mengele, but claimed to have forgotten it, would that be OK, too?
You aren’t looking for a president, you are looking for a saint.
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