Lily Adams, the daughter of Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood and Ann Richards works for Hillary

[CreekDog]

She previously held positions with the Democratic National Committee and last spring was hired to work for the Hillary campaign.

Here is some of her background:

Deputy Communications Director Lily Adams
(Sept. 2013) Press secretary to Sen. Tim Kaine (VA) after serving as press secretary on his 2012 campaign. Press secretary to Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT). Deputy press secretary on Gov. Ted Strickland's 2010 re-election campaign. Part of the press team on Creigh Deeds' 2009 campaign for governor of Virginia. B.A. in politics from Brandeis Universlty, 2009. Daughter of Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and granddaughter of Ann Richards.

Democrats and pro-choice advocates, and supporters of Planned Parenthood see this as a good thing and not a conspiracy.

Breitbart and anti-choicers see it as a conspiracy and talk about it in that manner.

[mhatrw]

1. Kid Pro Quo

[Ed Suspicious]

3. +1

[CreekDog]

5. show us where she is unqualified for the position

you don't even know when she was hired.

[mhatrw]

7. She is uniquely qualified for the position.

kid pro quo

[roguevalley]

25. agreed. How is this different than that cheney kid getting a job when daddy was vp? This is 1%

entitlement and because the WORLD HAS CHANGED when we see it we know its bs. Kid pro quo. Period.

[CreekDog]

58. actually that's not evidence

if you want to actually convince people, you should try some next time.

[Punkingal]

2. Bullshit.

I'm a democrat and I don't see it as a good thing. I see it a payoff for an endorsement that has seriously damaged Planned Parenthood.

Don't you even DARE lump me in with Breitbart and anti-choicers.

[CreekDog]

6. the granddaughter has been working for many campaigns and for the party for years now

what's the problem?

[Punkingal]

8. The problem is it was a sneaky, under-handed pay-off.

Are you naive?

[CreekDog]

11. Everything was done in public

the hiring was public and months ago.

the endorsement was this week and also public.

do you consider parades "sneaky"?

cause that's how sneaky this was, completely public.

[leftofcool]

30. Here's ya a tip: Don't donate to them.

And while you are at it, don't donate to any other Democrat that has endorsed Hillary. Hope this helps.

[CreekDog]

54. I wonder if some think Planned Parenthood should close now?

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where will people (especially low income women) get healthcare if they close?

Planned Parenthood is the largest Medicaid provider in the country --in other words, they provide healthcare for people at lower rates to more people than any other.

And you're advocating that people stop supporting them?

That's a great way to harm poor people and poor women especially because you feel a good organization's fundraising arm didn't support your preferred candidate.

I didn't realize it was all about them.

[leftofcool]

56. I should have used the sarcasm tag shouldn't I?

[CreekDog]

57. I think so, because people are advocating crazy things w/o sarcasm

anyway, I edited my post so that it wasn't aimed at you.

[senz]

55. + 1000 Thank you, Punkingal.

[Punkingal]

62. You're welcome, and thank you.

How dare these people tell me who I am and what I believe? I appreciate the support.

[Ed Suspicious]

4. Stick your framing where the sun don't shine.

"Breitbart and anti-choicers see it as a conspiracy and talk about it in that manner."

How insulting.

[CreekDog]

9. do you think she's qualified for the position? because she is.

Deputy Communications Director Lily Adams
(Sept. 2013) Press secretary to Sen. Tim Kaine (VA) after serving as press secretary on his 2012 campaign. Press secretary to Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT). Deputy press secretary on Gov. Ted Strickland's 2010 re-election campaign. Part of the press team on Creigh Deeds' 2009 campaign for governor of Virginia. B.A. in politics from Brandeis Universlty, 2009. Daughter of Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and granddaughter of Ann Richards.

I realize you see it as a giant conspiracy that someone who regularly has worked for Democrats over the years would sign onto the campaign of the frontrunner for the nomination and a pro-choicer at that.

Ohhhhhhh, what a giant conspiracy, Planned Parenthood supported the pro-choice candidate with the greatest amount of support of any in the field right now.

What a scoop.

You guys gotta stop being victims. I'm more than happy to vote for Bernie if you can get him to win the primaries and caucuses. But he's gotta win first.

[Ed Suspicious]

14. "Breitbart and anti-choicers see it as a conspiracy and talk about it in that manner."

You've thrown me in with Breitbart because I don't approve of the political back-scratching meant to sew up an election that is in its relative infancy.

My post is about your shitty framing.

[roguevalley]

26. her biggest qualification is her mom's endorsement. obviously, these women believe that

Hillary will win and she positioned her daughter to move up with HRC. If you don't see it, you are purposefully not looking. It isn't about this woman's qualifications. Its about her mom getting a perk for her endorsement. Kid pro quo.

[safeinOhio]

29. Please feel free to point out

any failure of Brenie to support reproductive rights.

Why would PP change it's history of not endorsing a primary candidate and only the nominee?

Sorry does not pass the smell test.

I will vote for HRC is she wins the primaries. But have cut off $ to PP.

[Art_from_Ark]

10. Extremely insulting

Nauseatingly insulting, even.

[CreekDog]

13. and completely true

[Art_from_Ark]

15. You make it sound like only wackos oppose this

when it's obvious that lots of DEMOCRATS are not at all happy with this quid pro quo.

[CreekDog]

16. In the General Elections, they endorsed Kerry in '04, Obama in '08 and '12

[Art_from_Ark]

17. You do understand the difference between PRIMARIES and GENERAL ELECTIONS, right?

Right?

[CreekDog]

19. Yes and why is it news to you that groups sometimes endorse during the primaries?

and not just the general election?

why is that news to you?

The League of Conservation Voters and Sierra Club endorsed Al Gore before he got the nomination in 2000.

[Bluenorthwest]

42. they are exploiting an important cause and organization which is entrusted to them.

And your post is McCarthyist bullshit. I've defended clinics with my body this is not an issue that is suited to the dividing of the very people who have risked injury and faced down mobs for them. They do not ask only for money. They ask for our physical support and at times for defense of clinics, 'stand with us' they say.

I sent them a check with a note that if they ever asked me for anything other than money again I'd never give them anymore money. If they are a primary endorser, they will not get my body nor my words and they have no standing at all to make such requests.

[Punkingal]

18. Oh don't you get it? We aren't real democrats...we are with Brietbart and anti-choicers.

[CreekDog]

20. I'm sure you're a real Democrat

but some of the arguments are sounding like what I'm reading on Breitbart.

[Punkingal]

21. What arguments? Facts are facts, despite your denials.

Hillary hired the daughter, PP did something they have never done before and endorsed a primary candidate. The facts are quite clear.

[CreekDog]

23. how much did the daughter make as an employee of the campaign?

take a guess?

[roguevalley]

27. if you resort to breitbart insults, it tells me you know what this is and you have nothing.

anyone who calls me that ....

[Art_from_Ark]

22. Damn--

And here all this time, I had thought I was diametrically opposed to the Breitbart Bunch

[Tanuki]

37. Last night, when this story first showed up on DU as an unsourced report of a twitter post,

I googled to see what I could find out. The first dozen or more links were to anti-choice websites and Breitbart or sources quoting Breitbart. I found that interesting to say the least, and can see why Creekdog made the connection he did. Not saying you aren't a real democrat, but you might want to examine the long-term consequences of making common cause with anti-choicers, Breitbart, and others who are trying to neutralize HRC.

[Punkingal]

46. Yes, there are Brietbart sources, which I never read. I posted a link to an article in that thread:

http://www.pacificcitizen.org/democratic-hopeful-hillary-clinton-looks-to-new-staffer-for-outreach-on-asian-americans/

And someone else posted this link:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-planned-parenthood-ties-120794

You and others might want to stop accusing democrats of not being democrats. If Brietbart had been the only source, I would have ignored the whole thing. I am not an anti-choicer, either.

[99Forever]

53. That's exactly why the OP framed it that way.

A very flamebaitish tactic at best.

[CreekDog]

61. No, the flamebait is what I was responding to when I wrote it

all the horrible things I was reading here on DU about Planned Parenthood, Hillary Clinton and Cecile Richards, not to mention her daughter who has her own resume and qualifications and record of working for our candidates.

*that* was the flamebait, not my defense of Lily Adams and Planned Parenthood.

[99Forever]

63. Oh please.

You actually think you can fool anyone with a functional brain with that steaming pile?


Don't bother answering, more bullshit on the pile won't improve the smell.

[CreekDog]

64. That post is how you got four hides in the past 90 days

Seems like you're trying for a fifth.

[99Forever]

65. The alert trolls have been trying for a month to do just that.

I'm still standing.

[CreekDog]

67. Don't blame your hides on trolls

They have been so frequent since you joined DU, people can look for themselves to see, that you are clearly ducking responsibility for the consequences of your own words.

[JTFrog]

50. The truth hurts don't it?

There seems to be a certain faction of so called progressive liberals here that jump at any opportunity to join hands with the Republicans. As long as they think it will somehow hurt Hillary. I thought some posters had jumped the shark when they started bringing up Monica and Vince Foster again. But this shit here is truly vile.

You know who's been trying to tear down Planned Parenthood for months (actually years) now? The fucking Republicans, anti-choicers and yeah, Breitbart.

So some of those DUers here saying that they will never support PP after this have just joined in with some of the nastiest people in this country.

[geek tragedy]

59. truth hurts, nt

[BlueStateLib]

12. Deputy Communications Director Lily Adams

Deputy Communications Director Lily Adams


(Sept. 2013) Press secretary to Sen. Tim Kaine (VA) after serving as press secretary on his 2012 campaign. Press secretary to Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT). Deputy press secretary on Gov. Ted Strickland's 2010 re-election campaign. Part of the press team on Creigh Deeds' 2009 campaign for governor of Virginia. B.A. in politics from Brandeis Universlty, 2009. Daughter of Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and granddaughter of Ann Richards.

[zappaman]

24. Huge kick and rec!

[cali]

28. This Bernie supporter has no problem with this hire

[Tanuki]

36. Thank you for your fairness. I get the feeling that some are using this

as the latest excuse for "piling on."

[leftofcool]

31. OMG! Democrats working for other Democrats!

How dare they????????????

[Dr Hobbitstein]

41. That's whay I've always been saying...

Democrats work for Democrats. It's not nefarious, it's how it works. Some act as if they're actually shocked by this.

[sufrommich]

32. So? To think that this whole organization moved to support

Clinton because she gave Lily a job is moronic almost beyond belief.

[NurseJackie]

33. Awesome! Hillary's campaign in lucky to have her!

[Thinkingabout]

34. As a Bernie supporter said yesterday if PP endorsed Bernie

All would be well, if not endorsement is wrong. A truthful Bernie supporter.

[Bluenorthwest]

44. Not this Bernie supporter. I am very much opposed to issue oriented groups making primary

endorsements. That goes for all of them, LGBT groups as well. It is an exploitation of the issues those groups claim to serve and I think it is ethically depraved and harmful to the unity of the community. When you are an advocate for a specific issue or community, that's what you need to do. When you put strings on the support for the group, you are using that group to serve those strings, not the stated objective of the group.
If people feel that by standing up for your group they will be seen as endorsing a candidate, many might hesitate to stand up for you. If I ask 'stand with me' it should not include 'stand also with anyone I endorse, when we march it is about the cause and the candidate'.

That's how I feel about it. And I get to use my money and my body as I see fit.

[Thinkingabout]

45. Do you think of PP as issue oriented? I know the Republicans

Are pushing the idea the only thing PP does is abortions, it is much more, providing health care, BC, cancer screenings to those who can not afford this care. Unions are issue oriented.

[Ed Suspicious]

66. I said I might be excited if they endorsed Bernie. I am human. I want my candidate to win. I

don't blame you for being excited about the endorsement. I blame PP for making it, and I blame this shitty OP for painting me a right winger for being puzzled and annoyed by it.

[quickesst]

35. Thanks to the magic of the Internet...

.... We have an endless supply of these.

[Ilsa]

38. I don't see a conspiracy.

It's democrats in public positions who've picked a side. There may be a price to pay.

[Starry Messenger]

39. Sounds like she's doing great too, since Hillary is leading.

[randome]

40. At what point does the sheer weight of all these conspiracies...

...lead to the inevitable conclusion that Clinton is simply the candidate voters want to elect?

Or maybe that's not a valid outcome. Stupid voters, what do they know?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[Dr Hobbitstein]

43. Clinton voters are just trying to stay off the Clinton Enemies List,

donchaknow...

[Blue_Adept]

51. But I thought Clinton voters were too stupid (and not liberal enough)?

If they're stupid for voting for her, which I've seen said many times, wouldn't they be too stupid to know that they'd get on her enemies list?

[Bobbie Jo]

47. Excellent addition!

[Mass]

48. I am not really surprised Cecil Richards endorsed Hillary Clinton.

I always thought they were closed and it is her right, and yes, the political world is just nepotism (children of politicians and political activists are more likely to work for campaigns and political operations, this is not new).

This said, I do not need Cecil Richards to tell me who to support in this primary. It is not as if Sanders was a anti-choice, anti-women person. So, at this level, women's right is not what makes me choose who I support for the nomination.

For the general election, there is not much choice either. Any GOP candidate is a big NO-NO when it comes to women's issues. Webb fares a little better, assuming he runs, but not good enough for me to consider him. So it will be the Democratic nominee.

[Hiraeth]

49. SHE EARNED THAT JOB. SHE DESERVES IT !!!

[99Forever]

52. Nepotism is alive and well in Camp Weathervane.

WTG, tone deaf cronies.

[vkkv]

60. Very SUSPICIOUS giving the recent public ENDORSEMENT of "H->"

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[Beacool]

68. Oooohhhh, it must be a conspiracy...........

[Number23]

69. Good grief, she's got a killer, solid Dem pedigree.

Which means this web site will start trashing and sliming her any milisecond now...

[stevenleser]

70. Ain't that the truth. DU went off the rails when the admins decided they would let unrestricted

criticisms of Democrats fly instead of the previous rule where the criticism had to be good spirited (I forget the exact wording)

Ever since that time DU has been morphing into the Old Elm Tree.

[Hekate]

73. Third generation Texas Democratic woman activist and highly qualified. Let the trashing begin! ...

Oh wait; the trashing is well under way already.

Who are these alleged Democrats exactly?

[sadoldgirl]

71. Thanks for the flame bait!

Are you hunting??? How obvious!

[aikoaiko]

72. I doubt there was any conspiracy, but you do illustrate a conflict of interest for PP.

And that COI is unfortunate.

[Bernblu]

74. It figures.

It probably has something to do with the Clinton foundation channeling money to PP. Follow the money.