[Vision2020] Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms

[Glenn Schwaller]

Well perhaps if anyone had bothered to take a bit of a closer look at the
situation and weigh both sides of the story (now there's a novel idea . . .)
you would see it tends to be a tad bit different.

The funding in question was part of a facilities expansion (new building
construction, NOT operational funding) Federal Grant to the Covenant House,
a private organization whose "sole purpose is to be of value to this
community by remaining open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for kids in
crisis", and was more than 3 times the amount received in 2006 ($1,194,788)
from Federal sources.
 (http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?partner=justgive&npoId=332976

Please note that with resepct to operational funding (food, clothing,
counseling, schooling, job searching etc)  "Approximately 90% of our
(Covenant House) funding comes from the generous donations of friends like
you"
(http://covenanthouseak.org/about.htm).

Seems like the kids in question might be a bit more crowded (I guess a
"shortfall" of 1.1 mil may mean buddying up in a room) but even so it falls
far short of  "damage to other young women, unmarried and pregnant", and
certainly does not seem to indicate any lack of  "common sense or
compassion'"  once the total picture is seen.

All in all this seems to be a fairly health shot in the financial arm since,
according to the State of Alaska SB231 (
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/07_OMB/SB231bill.pdf) Covenant House was to
receive only $155,000 in 2007.

What a monsterous sociopath is this unknown Govenor Palin!!

Keep swinging Mix and Hansen - I wouldn't expect any less of you.

GS







On 9/3/08, keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com> wrote:
>
>  It's not fair to criticize her parenting skills or Christian morality just
> because her daughter is pregnant.  It's absolutely fair -- nay, necessary --
> to criticize her legislation, judgment, and Christian morality on the basis
> of votes like this.
>
> Palin won't last through September, but the damage to her daughter will
> linger, although perhaps not for as long as the damage to other young women,
> unmarried and pregnant, whose situations seem to not have beckoned forth the
> governor's common sense or compassion . . .
>
> Keely
> http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/
>
>
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > From: thansen at moscow.com
> > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:58:31 +0000
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms
> >
> > "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who
> > revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this
> > year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program
> > benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live."
> >
> > - From the Washington Post at:
> > http://tinyurl.com/6ndx4g
> >
> > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> > "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
> > students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."
> >
> > - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
> >
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