What we also know now is that their senior management is a vipers den of 'Phant political operatives, (their founder and CEO is a former Bush appointee) and failed right wing candidates, and (only a Wiki away) that they have aggressively harassed other non-profits in an attempt to prevent them from using the term "for the cure".
What you may not know is that their top top public-health official resigned in protest over the decision, and that the board overruled the professional staff who recommended against defunding PP.
And finally, we have a report that they aggressively lobbied against the Breast & Cervical Cancer Prevention & Treatment Act because they wanted the money to go through them, they lobbied against single payer in Obamacare, and fought to neuter the Breast Cancer & Environmental Research Act, and they appear to be attempting to use this as a wedge in order to create a Republican political opening.
That, and the fact that Republicans want women to be punished for having sex, so they oppose birth control and things like the HPV vaccine.
I'm with what Atrios says:
It's OK To Say You SuckI don't think that they realize is just how much scrutiny they will be getting as an organization now that they will no longer be seen as synonymous with the fight against breast cancer.
Just echoing what tbogg had already said, but what Komen has done is made it ok to point out that they kind of suck. And they kind of sucked before all this, but not many people ever want to rain on the pink paradise parade. They managed to associate their brand with a cause, and to criticize the brand was to criticize the cause.
Now we all get to say: you suck hard.
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Well, now that their original explanation, that they cut off any organization under an official (trumped up in the case of PP) investigation, because they are continuing to give to Penn State, home of the pedophile friendly athletic department, which is under a legitimate investigation, they have a new alibi.
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Keep in mind that the Susan Komen foundation is world wide and has achieved many surprisingly positive things. Susan herself is a Saudi (I have met her) and her contributions to health of Saudi women have been spectacular. The focus of your campaign should be to pressure the home organization to dump the fanatics that have infested their organization in the US.
Susan Komen died in the mid 1970s, and was not a Saudi.
As to the Komen foundation, they have lobbied against federally funded breast cancer screening, against investigations of environmental causes of breast cancer, against health care reform, and then there is heir legal harassment of other charities.
They also have a low pay out to research efforts, and they blacklist organizations that have embrionic stem cell research projects. (I don't mean that they don't fund those projects, I mean that they blacklist organizations that have projects that they don't fund themselves)
This, along with their pink-washing of companies that increase the risk of breast cancer (KFC, seriously?) makes them the very epitome of corrupt corporatist right wing charities.
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