Dillard's Join Huckabee, Palin in supporting Heroic Media

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Dillard’s joins Huckabee, Palin in supporting Heroic Media

By Sofia Resnick
03.15.11

Next month in Houston, Texas, anti-abortion advocates will gather for two hours of prayer, lunch and spring wear — made possible by Dillard’s Memorial City, which will be fitting a team of 10 Heroic Media supporters to model nautical-themed outfits — to raise money that will fuel an anti-abortion campaign in the Houston area.

The event, scheduled for April 9, will be the second fashion show the Fortune 500 company, headquartered in Little Rock, Ark., has sponsored for Heroic Media, the Austin, Texas-based anti-abortion media group that creates television, billboard and Internet advertising targeted at pregnant women and, lately, specifically aimed at African-Americans.

Heroic has actively promoted its message in Florida, placing a controversial billboard in Jacksonville and enlisting Florida resident and likely 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to raise money for a similar campaign in Orlando.

Both Heroic Media and the Dillard’s branch insist that the partnership is not political. Dillard’s Memorial City manager Stephen Brophy says the store accepted the request to sponsor a fashion show because another branch had done one at a previous store and it was successful.

“We try to not get too political,” Brophy says. “We’re about fashion. We try to appeal to the masses.”

Brophy says he doesn’t know much about Heroic Media and isn’t aware that its focus is abortion issues. He asked The Florida Independent if Heroic Media supports abortion rights.

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1. Will not purchase anothe damn thing from Dillards! nt