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Karen Handel explains Komen resignation, blasts Planned Parenthood
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| Last Edited | COSDem Feb 07, 2012 06:37pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, February 8, 2012 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Karen Handel says she resigned as a vice president for Susan G. Komen for the Cure because she had become "too much of a focal point" in the controversy surrounding Komen’s decision to cut its funding to Planned Parenthood -- a decision that, after a torrent of public outcry, was reversed within days.
"I really felt I had a responsibility to step aside so that [Komen] could refocus on their mission," Handel told Fox News in an interview Tuesday.
The resignation follows close on the heels of accusations that Handel, a former gubernatorial candidate in Georgia who campaigned partly on a promise to yank state funding from Planned Parenthood, brought that same intent to the Dallas-based Komen when she was hired as senior vice president of public policy in April -- an accusation that Handel denies. |
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