Where's the beef? What happened to tax bucks, Planned Parenthood?

The Government Accounting Office recently released a report showing a huge discrepancy between the amount of tax dollars funnelled into Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion chain in the world and the amount they're spending. Where's the money, Washington Times' Rita Diller wants to know:

Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) audits show the organization spent just $657.1 million between 2002 and 2008 from federal government grants and programs, but the abortion behemoth's own annual reports show that it took in $2.3 billion from government grants and programs during the same time period.

That's not pocket change. Why the discrepancy?....

Why the discrepancy, indeed. And why also, Diller asks, does PP continue to receive massive tax funding when most Americans oppose abortion?

Since 2009, at least five nationwide polls have confirmed that a majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

Someone, then, needs to explain to all those people why $2.3 billion in tax dollars have been doled out to an organization that admits to systematically having killed more than 1.8 million pre-born babies between 2002 and 2008 and then reports it only spent $657.1 million in federal dollars

Planned Parenthood appears to have a special relationship with the government even in Virginia where Governor Bob McDonnell promised to defund the killers during his campaign. After his election the tune changed and now McDonnell supports pouring Virginians' hard-earned money into PP's insatiable maw. Diller goes on:

Planned Parenthood affiliates continue to build huge abortion megacenters in minority neighborhoods in an attempt to polish its image and gear up for the veritable tsunami of clients that will be headed its way under President Obama's health care plan, which earmarks $11 billion for community health centers.

Is there no end to the amount of our hard-earned tax dollars that will be poured down the bottomless pit known as Planned Parenthood to quench this social-engineering agency's thirst for sexualizing our children, stealing their souls and dumping the mutilated bodies of our children's children into our nation's waste bins? (Read full article here.... )

Wow! Give this lady a medal and let's get the government out of the bedroom. (Isn't that what the abortionists' always say?)  Why would an organization that kills millions of babies blink an eye over stealing the taxpayers' money? Demand that your public officials stop funding PP with our taxes! Take the pledge and ask them to take it as well.

Bob McDonnell is a Big Disappointment!

I'm posting this email from Virginians for Life (VFL) because I'm really disgusted with Governor Bob McDonnell. He promised on Laura Ingraham's radio show to defund Planned Parenthood, the biggest killer of Virginia's tiniest citizens. He didn't do it and he's playing politics to hide his actions. Read the message from VFL and I hope you'll call the governor's office and tell him you're not only disappointed, but think he missed an opportunity to act like a real Catholic defending the most defenseless.

Virginians for Life April 22, 2010

Tell Bob McDonnell to apologize for breaking his promise

Planned Parenthood has just claimed VICTORY because our gutless Governor refused to defund them.

In a clever sell out last week, Governor McDonnell managed to provide evidence that he was cutting money for abortion, while INCREASING the amount of Virginia dollars flowing into Planned Parenthood.

There is nothing we can do for the babies until next year, but we can press on in the fight to defund Planned Parenthood by making our outrage at Governor McDonnell's sell-out to baby killers heard from the roof tops.

Here are the facts:

Remember, a few years ago the General Assembly removed Planned Parenthood as a line item in the budget. This way, each year legislators could say, "I never voted for Planned Parenthood funding," while the money continued to flow to Planned Parenthood out of a non-specific "general fund."

That is why Virginian's for Life specifically asked Governor McDonnell to refer to Planned Parenthood in the budget amendments and ban them from receiving funds.

Instead, Governor McDonnell borrowed from the bureaucratic play book and, while he stipulated that no funds be used for "providing abortion services," he simply failed to mention Planned Parenthood. This means that Governor McDonnell is continuing to allow tax dollars from the "general fund" to flow to Planned Parenthood.

To make matters worse, Governor McDonnell approved a new form of revenue for Planned Parenthood. He signed a separate law, creating a "Trust Women/Respect Choice" specialty license plate in Virginia. Proceeds from these new Virginia license plates will also go to Planned Parenthood.

Earlier in the legislative session, some TRUE pro-life lawmakers amended this bill to redirect funds to Virginia's Crisis Pregnancy Centers, but their amendment was killed in the senate.

Governor McDonnell could have used the Governor's veto pen to kill the bill or reinstate that amendment and allow the money to go to Crisis Pregnancy Centers.

Instead, Governor McDonnell did amend the bill slightly. He threw another meaningless bone to pro-lifers by stipulating that the money cannot be used to "provide abortion services." Then, Governor McDonnell signed the bill into law, sending all the proceeds to Virginia's largest abortion provider: Planned Parenthood.

While they are not tax dollars per-say, Virginia government employees will still be the ones distributing Virginia license plates, and processing money through Virginia's government offices before it is sent to Planned Parenthood. Rather than give Planned Parenthood tax dollars directly, the state is helping them to raise money through the sale of state license plates.

Since this is not a budget item, it doesn't have to be renewed year after year. This is an entirely NEW and PERMANENT source of Virginia funding for Planned Parenthood, signed into law by our own, "pro-life" Governor Bob McDonnell.

Planned Parenthood sent out an update hailing this as a "VICTORY," and well they should.
Every time you see a "Trust Women/Respect Choice" license plate as you are driving down Virginia's roads, remember that Planned Parenthood is thanking "pro-life" Governor Bob McDonnell for that new source of Virginia revenue.

Bob McDonnell is a typical politician trying to please both sides of the aisle and hopes that you and I are naive enough to buy it.
Do you buy it?
I pray that you do not.

We need a Governor with guts and integrity.

Please call Bob McDonnell at 804-786-2211 and let him know how disgusted you are and that you expect him to fulfill his promise next year.

For the babies,

Marnie Deaton

Communication Director

You can donate at http://www.virginiansforlife.org/

Virginians for Life
PO Box 1620
Front Royal, VA 22630

A Big Hurrah for Bob McDonnell and Laura Ingraham!

Get all your friends out to vote for Bob McDonnell on election day.

Pro-Abort Creigh Deeds to Face Pro-Life Bob McDonnell

Creigh Deeds won the Democratic nomination for Governor of Virginia yesterday. This pits a man with a 100% rating from NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) against pro-life Republican Bob McDonnell. The choice couldn't be clearer as far as unborn children and their mothers are concerned. The Feminist Majority (even their name is a lie) is thrilled.

Deeds doesn't have one word about the life issues on his website. It wasn't an issue in the primary since all three were pro-abort extremists. Let's see whether it becomes a hallmark of his campaign now that he's the Democrat's nominee. I noticed he was endorsed by my old delegate from Alexandria, Toddy Puller. You couldn't find a politician more willing to support killing children than Toddy. She continues that legacy today in the state senate.

Bob McDonnell, on the other hand, was clear and vocal on his pro-life position throughout his campaign. And he has the pro-life history to back it up.

Here's what's on his website:

"Bob McDonnell is pro-life. As Attorney General, Bob supported numerous bills to protect the unborn and defended the Commonwealth’s ban on late-term partial birth abortion.

"As a legislator, Bob McDonnell helped lead the effort to ban late-term partial birth abortion (House Bills 2513 & 1541, 2003), fought to successfully enact parental notification and informed consent (Chief Patron, House Bill 1110, 1992; HB 2570, 2001), and encourage adoption.

"Bob McDonnell believes marriage is the union between one man and one woman. As a legislator, Bob McDonnell was chief sponsor and author of a constitutional amendment protecting traditional marriage (Chief Patron, HJ 187, 2004). As Attorney General, Bob supported Virginia’s marriage amendment and wrote an official opinion explaining that it would not affect the current legal rights of unmarried persons."

If you're pro-life, wherever you live, support Bob McDonnell. There are only two governor's races this year and Virginia will definitely be a referendum on the policies of Barack Obama and the liberal democrats. If the Republican ticket in Virginia wins, it will send a message to Washington that honest government isn't dead yet.

More on Virginia Politics and Outside Carpetbaggers

Well, I got the answer to the question posed in my earlier post. Yes, Yoni Cohen, spokesman for Common Sense Virginia (CSV) which has nothing to do with common sense and everything to do with slimeball politics is the same political operative who worked for Pete Stark of California. He's originally from Boston and couldn't care less about issues important to Virginians which is why CSV doesn't address them honestly. CSV is nothing but a liberal attack dog funded by big labor. No doubt, we'll see many more Cohens shipped into the state during the next few months, to raise dead voters and register Donald Duck and Peter Pan. What fun!

The CSV website is short on facts and long on attacks. Whenever I visit I have to turn down the sound because of the scary music. (It makes you imagine the evil laughter of the wicked Republicans? Wa-ha-ha-ha! Bob McDonnell the bogeyman is coming to get you, Virginia. Quick, call the Democratic ghost-busters who will tax and spend you into prosperity.)

Actually, the site does a pretty good job of giving me more reasons to support Bob McDonnell. He's pro-life, supports school choice, and opposed mandatory pre-school. He's a fiscal conservative and a right-to-work supporter who opposed some of the grandiose schemes supported by big-government guru Tim Kaine. At any rate, you won't find much information at the CSV website, just manipulation and distortion of Bob McDonnell's positions.

Here are a few articles about CSV. This is all about outsiders coming into Virginia to tell us how to vote (for liberals of course). Personally I think most Virginia voters are too smart for this nonsense.

Show me the $$

Small-minded Big-footing In Va. Governor's Race

Common Sense Virgnia top donors

Va. race takes tone, tactics of national politics

Big Labor Democrats

Democratic Carpetbaggers Target Bob McDonnell

Common Sense Virginia (CSV), a recently established political PAC funded by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA), is lobbing molotov cocktails at Bob McDonnell, Virginia's Republican candidate for governor. To date the DGA, has funnelled $100,000 to the group which immediately bought negative ads attacking Bob McDonnell as a "right wing extremist." Their website is replete with scary music (ala horror flicks) and "scary" headlines like McDonnell is "dogmatically conservative." (Does that mean he supports the party platform?) He's also portrayed as having scary friends like Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, George Bush, etc. I actually found the website humorous. Do they really have such a low opinion of Virginia voters?

Since there are only two governors' races this year (the other in New Jersey), the Commonwealth can expect to see carpetbaggers and outsiders doing everything they can to control the election. Common Sense Virginia will not endorse the Democratic candidate because that would require an openness and transparency into their donors and activities. But as an independent election advocacy group, commonly known as "527s," groups can suppress their donor lists. Considering the influence of outside groups flooding swing states in the recent presidential election, and the national benefit of shifting Virginia further to the left, we can expect large numbers of outside community organizers coming into the state to manipulate the vote. How many dead Virginians will attempt to vote for the Democratic candidate? (Sign up to be a poll watcher!)

I recently responded to an on-line article reporting CSV's strategy to portray McDonnell as anti-woman. It was the typical feminist, name-calling rant that he is a "right wing extremist" who wants to suppress women. Here's what I wrote:

These women don't speak for me, my five daughters and daughter-in-laws, nor for my many sisters, sister-in-laws, nieces, and cousins. We are a pro-life family and that means defending unborn babies (including little unborn women) and their mothers. My husband and I offered a shelter home to over a dozen unwed moms over the years who made a decision both they and their children could live with.

Bob McDonnell is no "extremist." Neither are the women of "Silent no more" who regret their abortions and share their stories of men coercing them into abortion, being lied to and mutilated at abortion mills, being abandoned by their partners and "feminist" friends, etc.

There are extremists in the abortion debate; Bob McDonnell isn't one of them. They work at Planned Parenthood clinics where they instruct underage girls to cover up for predatory adult rapists. They champion stabbing near-term babies in the neck with scissors and sucking out their brains. They think it's perfectly fine to leave living breathing infants born alive after abortion in dirty linen baskets to suffocate.

Thank God there are a few politicians with the manly courage to stand up to name-calling liberals and defend the fundamental right to life described in the Declaration of Independence. They are the equivalent of the patriots who fought against tyranny. I'm proud to be a delegate for Bob McDonnell at the Virginia State Convention, a man who recognizes the dignity and worth of women from the very beginning.

Check out articles on Common Sense Virginia here, here, and here. And whenever you see them rear their ugly heads, don't let their lies and name-calling go unanswered.

I'll be posting more on this as the campaign progresses. I'm curious whether the Yoni Cohen who is CSV's press secretary is the same Yoni Cohen who was press secretary for California's liberal Congressman Pete Stark and before that worked for Fox Sports. And I'd be really interested to know who the movers and shakers are behind the establishment of this (dare I say it?) hate group? Haven't seen any media criticism yet of their "negative campaigning" and I'm not holding my breath.