Sign Letter to Susan B. Komen Foundation: Donations Shouldn’t Go To Hadassah Lieberman

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


AP Photo / Tammie Arroyo

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.

As a three time breast cancer survivor, I call on Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Komen Foundation to ask Hadassah Lieberman to step down as a “Global Ambassador” for the organization in light of the inherent conflict of interest her continued presence brings. It is counterproductive not only to Susan G. Komen for the cure’s positions and goals, but is also unfair to the millions of families that depend on its work.

Sincerely,

Jane Hamsher


Sign here:

http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/hadassah

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. Both Liebermans are traitors

everywhere they speak in public, they should be hounded with "TRAITOR" signs.

[crazylikafox]

2. signed. Let's send Lieberman a message

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear babylonsister!

Done! I gave them some money too...

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I am appalled at the actions of Hadassah Lieberman.

K&R

:toast:

[Happyhippychick]

4. Rec'd. Kicked. Signed.

Thank you.

[monmouth]

5. Signed...n/t

[VAliberal]

6. signed and kick

thanks for this heads up!

[undeterred]

7. signed

[Thickasabrick]

8. Done K&R nt

[hlthe2b]

9. K&R gladly

[Berry Cool]

10. I am surprised it comes as a surprise to Jane Hamsher that anyone associated with Komen for the Cure

should be actively involved in killing health care reform.

She just seems a bit naive to me.

Doesn't she realize that Nancy Brinker, who founded Komen for the Cure, is a Bush Pioneer, a Republican among Republicans?

The whole Komen for the Cure organization is nothing but a bunch of Republicans trying to make sure health care providers and health insurance companies stay rich by continuing to have breast cancer as an expensive disease to treat forever and ever and ever. As a progressive, I wouldn't give them the time of day.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. really???

I had no idea....

ugh, I feel even sicker than I did to see the LIEbermans stumping for the cure.

[Luminous Animal]

14. Hamsher knows.

That knowledge is immaterial to her point.

[dgibby]

11. Done!

Thanks for the info and link. They won't be getting any donations from me as long as she's on the payroll and that's what I told them. There are other groups that will use the money more responsibly.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. Done. And KnR