OneNewsNow reports that the Family Research Council is criticizing Mike Huckabee for speaking at and receiving speaker's fees form some liberal organizations:
The Politico reports that last year the former Arkansas governor accepted $35,000 in speaking fees from Novo Nordisk, a biomedical firm involved in human embryonic stem-cell research. In August, OneNewsNow reported that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney actually holds stock in the drug-maker. Huckabee also accepted speaking fees from a non-profit group working to expand access to the "morning-after pill," and a group pushing to study whether tightening gun control laws will reduce violence.
Do conservatives typically speak at organizations which promote embryonic stem cell research, morning-after pills and gun control groups?
4 comments:
It wouldn't hurt my feelings or check book to have these groups pay me to tell them how wrong they are.
Did Huckabee or Romney stand in agreement or disagreement with them is what I want to know.
Bruce -
I don't know for sure, but usually when one speaks at an organization--especially when receiving a speaker's fee--there is at least a minimal level of agreement and implied mutual endorsement.
Novo Nordisk is a very large company known for its products for helping manage diabetes. It seems way over the top to judge a candidate on the basis of what companies he has been paid to speak at. In fact, I'd like to know the FRC's objective standard for determining an appropriate company to speak to? This rules out the majority. In fact, virtually every fortune 500 company has a program to give to the United Way which supports abortion via Planned Parenthood. Rule them out!
I don't know FRC's standard, but my personal one would be not to speak at any which support things in opposition to my values--even if that is most of them.
My understanding of the United Way is that contributions to local United Ways stay local, and I know that the one in my area does not support Planned Parenthood.
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