http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46295871/ns/health-womens_health/#

I tried to paste in the text for you but the site is incredibly slow and temperamental.  Karen Handel, the former candidate for governor of Georgia who instigated the policy change has resigned, probably because Komen would never recover some of their respect if she did not.

That's actually a good idea. Why let a "middleman" handle it. They're just giving themselves a paycheck at your expense.

Musta used a shotgun.
Shot both feet off at once.

I read somewhere that David Frum had something to do with this whole debacle.

Komen official quits after Planned Parenthood dispute

Who didn't see that coming after last week?  What's really funny is she would have been the VP in charge of their public relations. 

She not only lost her job - her career is in ruins. What a faux pas!

Her career was in ruins before she got the job so she didn't really take any major steps backwards.

Oh.....

OK...


ouch...

I predict that somehow/someway, Karen Handel will make BIG money from this ~ ~ Sooz

February 08, 2012 3:40 PM
Poor Handeling
By Ed Kilgore

As the Komen Foundation fiasco over its effort to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood continues to unwind, former vice president for policy and Georgia Republican pol Karen Handel continues to create mischief for her former employer. Yes, she quit her job at Komen yesterday, but instead of going on a long vacation from public attention, she’s now setting trashcan fires all over the place.

In an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Jim Galloway, Handel lashed out at Planned Parenthood for a “vicious, vicious” campaign to hang onto its funding, but in doing so acknowledged that Komen’s decision to drop funding in the first place was a highly political reaction to pressure from anti-choice activists.

Handel’s prominent role in the dispute was also underlined by a WaPo report today on how the de-funding decision was actually made. In sharp contradiction to Handel’s claims that the whole deal went down before she was on the scene:


The board itself decided otherwise.

At this point, Karen Handel has no connection with Komen, having quit her job and turned down a severance package (which would have, under normal circumstances, included a “confidentiality” clause keeping her from granting interviews). Quite possibly she is interested in a return to Georgia Republican politics, where Planned Parenthood is currently considered to be roughly equivalent to the special squads who manned Nazi Germany’s death camps. Her interest in helping Komen treat this saga as having arisen from a technical issue of grant-making is somewhere approaching zero.

It is increasingly clear that Komen’s decision to bring Karen Handel into its decision-making process was an act of monumental folly.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_02/poor_handeling035280.php#

Amen to that.

I think Handel's leaving and blabbing may draw some of the poison away from Komen, as in, oh, these people made a huge mistake hiring this woman, but they got rid of her. Maybe they're not so bad now that the witch has fled.

UPDATE ~ looks like my prior post was exactly right ~ it took her two years, but look who's back, still taking direct aim at PP and still shilling her "victimhood" and still using her anti-choice views as her weapon ~ ~ I'm very pleased with my decision to contribute to my local PP independently ~ Sooz

Former Komen Exec Karen Handel Fundraising Off Planned Parenthood Debacle
Submitted by Miranda Blue on Friday, 1/31/2014 5:11 pm

Remember two years ago when the Susan G. Komen For the Cure foundation abruptly dropped its grants to a Planned Parenthood breast-cancer screening program, setting off a national outcry, and prompting the resignation of the Komen official reportedly behind the decision?

The fallout of the debacle is still hurting Komen, which recently reported a 22 percent drop in income over the past year. But the decision to cut off grants to Planned Parenthood seems to be paying off for one person: Karen Handel, the former Komen vice president who was widely reported to have been the driving force behind split.

Now running for Senate in Georgia, Handel has released a campaign video touting her role in severing Planned Parenthood from Komen and fighting back against the “left-wing groups” and “liberal media” that criticized her.


Back when the news first broke that Komen had dumped Planned Parenthood, Handel denied that the decision was motivated at all by her anti-choice politics, despite reports from sources in the organization that said she manipulated its rules to cast Planned Parenthood out.

The campaign video has a different take, framing Handel as an anti-choice crusader caught in a David vs. Goliath struggle. “As a strong believer in the sanctity of life, Karen Handel had to make a decision: keep quiet in the face of the liberal onslaught, or stand by her convictions,” the video announces.

In speeches and interviews, Handel has made the Planned Parenthood showdown a centerpiece of her biography. She even paved the way for her Senate run by releasing a book calling Planned Parenthood “thugs” and “bullies.”

Whatever Handel’s motivations or role in the Komen/Planned Parenthood split, the whole episode seems to be working out pretty well for her. The decision that Handel advocated for might have left Komen struggling financially, but Handel herself now has the perfect story to prove her status as an anti-choice activist martyred by the liberal media.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/former-komen-exec-karen-handel-fundraising-planned-parenthood-debacle