After she left office as Georgiaâs secretary of state and lost her bid for governor, Handel joined the Susan B. Komen Foundation, where she served as the vice president for public policy. Handel made headlines in 2012 when she resigned from the foundation over her role in a push to end funding for Planned Parenthood. She later wrote a book titled âPlanned Bullyhood,â in which she described the organization as âa bunch of schoolyard thugs.â
Letâs be specificâŚshe spearheaded Komenâs movement to stop giving grants to Planned Parenthood for free breast exams for women who canât afford them because Planned Parenthood does abortions. Sheâs a horrid individual. If Komen hadnât caved to pressure, sheâd have succeeded in killing low income women. Schoolyard thug, thy name is Karen Handel.
EDIT: On a side note, donât donate to Komen. They waste the money on administrative expenses. Find another charity that actually spends the money on womenâs health.
I had disabled my ad-blocker, and up popped two spots for this awful woman. I turned it back on and poof! (I was having problems getting to the comments, but thatâs apparently been fixed too.) Sorry, I donât live in GA and wouldnât donate to this personâs campaign with Donald Trumpâs money. She is the worst of the worst, and I hope she gets spanked in the real election.
"I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures.â
Well, I think we can all agree on it, but apparently your buddies in Congress canât agree on it. Or maybe you just havenât following the news much lately, Karen. May want to actually start paying attention for once.
Yet, had Democrats voted in the numbers republicans do we would not be here discussing this. What is it going to take to get people off their ass, I wonder? Yes, I know turnout was good for this special election, but it wasnât good enough considering how hard Ossoff and his campaign worked. Itâs the same thing with how Obama left it all on the road for Clinton, yet the fucking voters still couldnât pull her across the finish line. This doesnât happen with republicans. They always win the close ones. They show up. Itâs as simple as that, and until that dynamic changes this is what we will keep on getting.
Healthcare is Ossoffâs top issue. Closely followed by the GOP plan to attack social security. Stopping âextremismâ is the kind of umbrella term something a lot of people can get behind (or under, since weâre talking about an umbrella).
Itâs a bit early to start blaming the voters. Ossoff can still win this squarely red district. Probably best to keep giving this thing absolutely everything weâve got.
But on the subject of the resilience of Republican voters: I call it the cockroach vote. Republicans could nuke Georgia, and their voters would still crawl out of the rubble like cockroaches and pull the lever (for the guys who nuked them, of course).
Thick male face, bad hair and large body balanced on tiny feetâŚHow does the GOP keep finding this type of hateful female candidate?
Voter suppression and Planned Parenthood scare tactics - in a word, ugh.
âBut on the subject of the resilience of Republican voters: I call it the cockroach vote. Republicans could nuke Georgia, and their voters would still crawl out of the rubble like cockroaches and pull the lever (for the guys who nuked them, of course).â
Good analogy. It is this âcockroach voteâ that may very well allow the republicans to close an almost 30 point gap between Ossoff and Handel. The republicans can actually contemplate this as being doable and probably likely. If the tables were turned it wouldnât even be possible to think about. I would like nothing more that to be proven wrong but I donât think my view is anything that hasnât been discussed before.
I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures.
Have you paid any attention to the policies of the party you are running as part of?
âItâs all hands on deck for us,â she continued. âWe know whatâs at stake here, and I donât think this is about any one person. We need to rise above it.â
Palin n Trump will be reunited soon.
I live in Georgia and think this horrid woman is the best rival for Ossoff. Sheâs one of those perennial candidates for any open position, and has lost more times than sheâs won. Sheâs not very likable, has no college degree, and is widely reviled for the mess she left at the Komen Foundation. Compare her to the highly educated Ossoff, and she does not come off well. She also has to decide how to deal with the large orange elephant in the room; either way shes does is problematic for her, I believe. I think Ossoff has a real chance to pull this off, though I wish heâd put a lid on the âvictory for the agesâ talk (from his speech last night).
âObamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen. -I thought it was bad legislation in 2010 and I support full repeal and replacement of the law today,â she said. âA small part of my job at Komen included advocating that mammogram screenings be covered under plans available on the exchanges âjust as they are covered in other plans in Georgia. I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures.
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There is that âaccessâ word again. Access is not coverage. Donât be fooled.
The thing for Ossoff and his people to do is to build on the base that heâs built. Two months to get a lot more people out to the polls. As Joe Hill said, âDonât mourn. Organize.â*
*Yes, I know. Joe Hill didnât really say it. But itâs become associated with him indelibly.
Tie her to Trump. He is erratic, unhinged and dangerous.
She welcomes help from Donald Trump. âAll hands on deckâ she says. Well I hope our POS president accepts her generous offer and inserts himself in the June general election. I have a tingly feeling that this special election will be awesome.
To paraphrase the great Dylan
The Trump wonât work because Handel is a vandal.