FDL Action: Donations Shouldn’t Go To Hadassah Lieberman

[spiritual_gunfighter]

Sign Letter to Susan B. Komen Foundation: Donations Shouldn’t Go To Hadassah Lieberman
By: Jane Hamsher Friday December 11, 2009 9:02 am


Nancy G. Brinker
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation Headquarters
5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250
Dallas, TX 75244

Dear Ms. Brinker,

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and Susan G. Komen for the Cure are driving forces in funding breast cancer research. Each year they take in hundreds of millions of dollars from people who want to end the suffering of those who are fighting breast cancer.

How these donations are channeled, therefore, is of great concern to those those who have invested untold amounts of money and support in its work.

It has come to my attention via an article by Joe Conason in Salon that Hadassah Lieberman – wife of Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) – is currently a compensated “Global Ambassador” for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. It is widely known, however, that not only has Senator Lieberman been an instrument of obstruction to the kind of health care reform advocated by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, but that Mrs. Lieberman is also a former lobbyist for APCO Associates, which represents the interests of the same major, private health insurance and pharmaceutical companies which Mr. Lieberman seeks to protect.

Mrs. Lieberman’s relationship with Susan G. Komen for the Cure is unethical and misleading. Important and often very personal donations made to Susan G. Komen for the Cure to benefit the sick and dying are essentially undermining their intended use. And as Hadassah travels the globe under the banner of Susan G. Komen for the cure, decrying the inadequacies of our health care system and the desperate need to reform it, her husband is at home to kill the reform efforts we so desperately need.

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/12/11/sign-letter-to-susan-b-komen-foundation-donations-shouldnt-go-to-hadassah-lieberman/

[Tailormyst]

1. That has to hurt !

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. I feel like the Komen foundation is a scam anyway.

Just a fucked up way for corporations to sell more units by slapping a pink ribbon on everything.

[Neecy]

3. A "compensated Ambassador"?

Wow....her husband is a US Senator, she's a well-compensated lobbyist, they have more money than you or I will ever know...and she takes a CHECK from the Komen Foundation?

What ever happened to the wealthy giving time to a worthy cause? Do they now require lavish compensation for that, too? Every dime paid to her is one less dime for research. Shameful and disgraceful.

Greed is destroying this country.

[unabelladonna]

4. i'm sick and tired

of spouses/family members of our already corrupt "public servants" collecting salaries from special interests. and equally nauseating is being compensated when working for a charitable organization. VOLUNTEER your time like the rest of us do!