Komen CEO Nancy Brinker’s life among the 0.1 percent
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Nancy has always been a conservative. SKF was did not cave to pressure.
http://www.americablog.com/2012/02/does-ceo-nancy-brinker-really-earn.html Not to be outdone, the Newsweek-owned Daily Beast has an interesting background article on Nancy Brinker and Komen for the Cure. In it, there are a number of details that support what we wrote earlier. [Update: The Daily Beast appears to have incorrectly reported Brinker's salary in an earlier version of their story, and we reported that figure, with some skepticism. The Daily Beast has quietly rewritten their story, correcting the salary figure, so I've deleted the grafs relating to the higher (now incorrect) salary. The correct figure is close to the $500,000 we earlier reported here.] The article's details reinforce the picture we painted earlier. Brinker is not just a charity maven, she's a hard-core Republican and friend of the mighty: [T]he commanding, 66-year-old businesswoman, diplomat, and Medal of Freedom recipient, ... established the world's largest breast cancer nonprofit, with its signature pink ribbon, in memory of her older sister, Susan in 1982. (Laura Bush, a close friend, was one of her original supporters and volunteers. After their mastectomies, Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan joined the group.) When she married Norman Brinker in the early 1980s she was able to launch her twin careers — building Komen into a money-earning powerhouse and helping to finance the Movement Conservative project: in the early ’80s, she met and married multimillionaire restaurateur Norman Brinker, a major Republican donor. ... When they tied the knot, the union provided Nancy with a network of A-list political connections and friends, plus the funds to lead a luxurious lifestyle and create the Komen Foundation, now the Susan G. Komen for the Cure with affiliates in 170 communities in 50 nations. ... Several years later the couple divorced and with a hefty settlement, formidable drive, and her chum George W. Bush in the White House, Nancy was ready to step onto the world stage. First the [p]resident appointed her ambassador to Hungary and then U.S. chief of protocol. That ambassadorship was likely a thank-you gift for her fundraising (nearly $700,000 in political donations between herself and her husband). Most ambassadorships are; it's been an open secret for decades. How seriously did she take her ambassadorship? She was lonely, says a friend, and spent most of her time away from her post. Ah, the life of the 0.1% Can I have a job like that? Small people get lonely too, you know. So I'll ask again — how much have those twin paths merged? How much of her political fundraising benefits from her Komen work, and vice versa? Calling Jimmy Olsen; an opportunity awaits. Is Komen a right-wing "fog shop" — an actual charity with a hidden "confuse-the-progressives" Movement Conservative agenda? Said "charity" gives only 24% to Research and a whopping 50% (almost) to "Education." Education — is that what the kids are calling it these days? Maybe it's time to find out. |
Anonymous
| Maybe if you worked harder and did not spend your day knocking down someone who devotes her entire life to finding a cure for breast cancer, you could be part of the 1%. |
Anonymous
If only life were that simple, PP. |
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Yeah, she is rich and a republican.
But when she saw her sister die of breast cancer she swore she would do everything she could to prevent that from happening to anyone else, she has probably done more than any other person in the world to raise awareness and increase funding for research to cure breast cancer...all in the name of her dead sister, not herself. But yeah, she's a rich republican, what slime! |
Anonymous
A republican!??!?!?!??!???!?!?!?!? |
Anonymous
| She just making money off people. If she is so rich and care so much about her foundation work for free. She uses money donated by people who care to flies around the country in first-class and push her right wing agenda. |
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Maybe if you worked harder and did not spend your day knocking down someone who devotes her entire life to finding a cure for breast cancer, you could be part of the 1%.
She has worked her hold life to role back women's right. |
Anonymous
Now, I don't like what SGK did last week one bit. And I agree that the organization seems to have lost focus and suffers from mission creep. But, I'm not sure that attacking Nancy Brinker personally is appropriate or helpful now. She shot herself in the foot and dishonored her sister's name last week, which was bad enough. But PP is right in that on balance, SGK did a lot of good. But, they are done. They might have a chance if Brinker and the board stepped down alongside Karen Handel, but that's not going to happen. Time to move on. |
Anonymous
| You start a charity and you run a charity, you are allowed to decide what to do with the money. Journalists and the court of public opinion does not get to decide how SGK spends their money. |
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Yes and who they hire.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/02/turns_out_komen_exec_is_whole_heartedly_anti-gay_too.html Update 2/7/2012: On Tuesday, Handel announced she was resigning from her position at Komen for the Cure.] Komen for the Cure Vice President for Public Policy Karen Handel is anti gay everything. She’s “wholeheartedly” agaisnt gay marriage, civil unions, ‘absolutely agaisnt gay adoptions’ and domestic partner benefits. In a 2010 interview with an NBC affiliate in Georgia—just one year before she took the job at Komen—Handel bloated about supporting Georgia’s constitutional amendment against gay marriage. “I’ve been very clear. And you know, as a Christian, marriage is between a man and a woman,” she said in the interview with Atlanta’s WXIA-TV. “And it’s something that I supported wholeheartedly,” she said. Handel’s staunchly anti-gay comments are surfacing as a number of Komen employees leak information that she’s responsible for cutting ties with Planned Parenthood, a decision the pink-ribbon foundation reversed on Friday. “Karen Handel was the prime instigator of this effort, and she herself personally came up with investigation criteria,” a source, who requested anonymity for professional reasons, told HuffP ost. “She said, ‘If we just say it’s about investigations, we can defund Planned Parenthood and no one can blame us for being political.’” “Everybody in the organization wishes she would do the right thing,” the Komen insider told HuffPost. Below is the video of Handel’s interview with WXIA in which details she’s against gay marriage, same sex partners getting benefits and anti gay adoption. |
Anonymous
| Nancy lied on TV. What else does she lie about. Only 25% of the funds at SKF goes to research. The majority goes to "education". It real easy to hide spending by categorizing it as "education". |
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Like many, the money corrupted the initial drive to do good.
When you start judging people you help, you're not really a charity anymore, imo. Unless you tell the doners that you only help people you like. |
Anonymous
On the contrary, yes they do. Journalists inform the public about their monetary practices and the public, when outraged, justly stops giving. |
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Komen is a terrific charity, that deserves substantial credit for BC research, increasing awareness of BC, etc. I am a Democratic (generally liberal one), and have no issue with supporting Komen. Komen clearly made a mistake here,but Komen has corrected it, and I expect Komen will move forward. While I no doubt disagree with Brinker's politics, I give Brinker huge credit for Komen's successes. I also have no doubt that her political connections helped her with Komen. Komen itself is not promoting any right wing agenda, so why do I care about Brinker's politics. The logic of several PPs is that only Democrats or liberals care about BC. All Americans should care BC!
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The mission of SGK -- like most charities -- is to make more money for SGK.
I volunteered with a (different) cancer charity, providing direct service to patients. I quit the day I was asked to relocate the survivors' support group to a much smaller, darker and hotter room so the fundraising staff could stuff goodie bags for the upcoming gala. I stopped volunteering with another group the day I witnessed their ED go ballistic because her assistant booked her on a flight to Boston.... in coach. |