Rudy Giuliani Liked Planned Parenthood Enough To Donate To Them

    Rudy Giuliani has said in his campaign speeches that he abhors abortion even though he believes that the right to choose should be kept legal.

   The Politico says dear Rudy was not always this way when it came to family planning and abortion rights groups, such as Planned Parenthood.

...But records show that in the '90s he contributed money at least six times to Planned Parenthood, one of the country's leading abortion rights groups and its top provider of abortions.

Federal tax returns made public by the former New York mayor show that he and his then-wife, Donna Hanover, made personal donations to national, state and city chapters of Planned Parenthood totaling $900 in 1993, 1994, 1998 and 1999.

The returns have been on the public record for years, but the detail about Giuliani's support for Planned Parenthood -- along with e-mailed copies of the returns -- was provided to The Politico by aides to a rival campaign, who insisted on not being identified.

   Provided by a rival campaign? I wonder which one that would have been?

On the campaign trail, Giuliani has a consistent mantra when the abortion issue comes up. "I'm against abortion. I hate it. I wish there never was an abortion, and I would counsel a woman to have an adoption instead of an abortion," Giuliani said last month in Columbia, S.C., in a typical comment.

Told of Giuliani's contributions to Planned Parenthood, Clemson University political science professor Dave Woodard said, "If he actually gave money to Planned Parenthood, boy, that puts him in a very precarious position, at least in the South Carolina Republican Party."

A Republican, Woodard noted that a personal contribution is something that is difficult to explain away to abortion opponents. "This isn't something like where your position is misunderstood," he said. "An overt act of giving money shows support for a position. That can't be a mistake or misinterpretation."

   I think that Rudy is now toast with the fundamentalist.

       You can read the whole story HERE.

    If the Democrats and Giuliani's rivals continue to bring this up, then I think that his chance of a presidential nomination are toast since this would pretty much make the social conservatives not want to back him.

  It is pretty funny with the Republicans and this election. You have John McCain ( wash-up ) as a choice and then you have Rudy Giuliani ( wannabe ) as a choice. That other character isn't worth the waste of time. McCain and Giuliani are both seeking the crown that Bush wears for the time being and they both wish to be like Bush, so they can't win no matter who the Democrats place in the running. That's provided the Dems don't screw up between now and November 2008.

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The Middle Class Economy Under George Bush

   Stats, stats, and more stats. I just love statistics, especially when they happen to make the spin machine from Bush and company look worse than idiots.

   Family Health Insurance has gone up 80.8 percent since the year 2000. the average premium for family health insurance comes in at $11,480 per year. It was at $6,348 in 2000.

The number of uninsured Americans is also up to 46.6 million in 2005 compared to 39.8 million in 2000.   Source

  The Wall Street Journal, “Since the end of the recession of 2001, a lot of the growth in GDP per person – that is, productivity – has gone to profits, not wages.   

The real median earnings of both male and female full-time, full-year workers declined between 2004 and 2005 by 1.8 percent and 1.3 percent, respectively.[15]  Median weekly earnings have risen only 0.9 percent between 2000 and 2006 compared with 7.1 percent growth between 1996 and 2000 under the Clinton Administration.[16]

   Job creation? Not hardly.

   Non-farm payroll employment up by only 5.2 million since Bush was elected while it rose 22.7 million under President Clinton. Employment growth has averaged only 70,000 per month under Bush which is much lower than the roughly 150,000 per month job growth needed to keep up with the population growth.  Previous administrations have been known to have had gains of 300,000 to 400,000 per month job growth.

Private sector job creation has been especially poor during the Bush presidency, with an average annual job growth rate of only 0.5 percent per year since 2001. Just 3.8  million private sector jobs have been created during the Bush presidency, compared with over 20 million private sector jobs during the Clinton presidency.   Source

    Check out this fact on our United States poverty levels.

More American families and children face severe financial problems.  The average annual increase in the poverty rate during President Bush’s first term is second only to that during George H.W. Bush’s administration and contrasts sharply with the declines in the Clinton and Kennedy-Johnson Administrations.[35]  The poverty rate has increased 12 percent to 12.6 percent since 2000.[36]  Nearly thirty-seven million Americans were living in poverty in 2005,[37] an increase of 5.4 million over the 2000 level, the year before President Bush took office.[38]  Poverty has hit America’s children particularly hard.  According to the latest Census report, almost one out of every six American children lives in poverty.[39]  The number of children living in poverty has increased 6.5 percent during the Bush Administration.[40]  

   Democratic Policy Committee for more stats and info.

   Though I generally try to stay away from statistics provided by any political party, I went to their sources, and they are valid.

 

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