Great article in The Nation on Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood

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It was only after an Associated Press reporter broke the story in late January that Richards let loose the deluge. “Disappointing news from a friend” was the subject line on Richards’s January 31 late afternoon e-mail to more than a million supporters. The first Facebook posting on the subject received 2,438 shares.

Four days later, Planned Parenthood boasted $3 million in new funding; 32,000 new Facebook fans; 22,000 people who “shared” the freshly inaugurated Planned Parenthood Facebook badge, leading to upward of 100,000 new viewers of the site; the very public support of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who donated $250,000 to the organization; vast television and radio exposure; and… the Komen funding back in place.

How exactly did Cecile Richards pull off this trick?

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Ann, I am sure, is immensely proud of her terrific daughter.

more at: http://www.thenation.com/article/166670/genius-cecile-richards?rel=emailNation

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1. No WONDER!

THOUGHT she was special! Something in those genes!

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2. K & R