Endorsement of Wendy Davis
Triggers National Boycott of Girl Scout Cookies
by Austin Ruse 29 Jan 2014
A part of every Thin Mint and Do-Si-Do,
every Samoa and Savannah Smile goes to support
abortion advocacy. So say John Pisciotta, who runs a tiny pro-life organization
in Waco, Texas,
and a dozen national pro-life organizations he has convinced to join him in a
national boycott of Girl Scout cookies that will be announced in Texas tomorrow.
A few weeks ago, the Girl Scouts
designated Wendy Davis as an “incredible woman” who deserved to be on the list
of 2013 “Women of the Year.” Only a month earlier, the organization promoted Kathleen Sebelius as a woman of “courage” on its Facebook
page.
Davis is not known for much more than
exaggerating her life story and for her filibuster of a pro-life bill in the Texas legislature. Her
critics point out that the bill she filibustered was one that limited abortions
after viability.
Kathleen Sebelius has been the bĂȘte noir
of the pro-life movement for her role in Obamacare and
mandating abortion coverage even for religious entities, what some Catholic
bishops have called the largest expansion of abortion in the country since Roe v. Wade.
All this was too much for Pisciotta, who
will ask families across America
not to participate in the Girl Scouts' fundraising through cookie sales.
Pisciotta told Breitbart News, “The Girl
Scouts were once a truly amazing organization, but it has been taken over by
ideologues of the left, and regular folks just will not stand for it. Anyone
who cares about this ought to go to www.cookiecott.com and find out why.”
Pisciotta says people should look closely
at where the money goes from these sales. The Girl Scouts claims that 100% of
cookie revenue stays with the regional councils, with a portion going to the
local troop, and that the national office receives no revenue from cookie
sales. However, Girl Scouts USA receives millions in licensing fees for every
box sold, money that contributes substantially to its enormous budget.
Ann Saladin, who runs
MyGirlScoutCouncil.com, points out that even the regional councils, and
therefore much of the cookie money, are directly implicated in abortion
advocacy. Her website lists all the local councils with abortion troubles.
The Girl Scouts also claims that no cookie
money goes to any other group. However, Girl Scouts USA makes an annual
donation of $1.5 million to the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts, a group on record as supporting reproductive health and rights for its
members.
There is a quixotic aspect to Pisciotta’s
fight. Pro-Life Waco
is hardly a match for the Girl Scouts. Guidestar, the online tracker of
non-profit organizations, doesn’t even list a tax filing for his organization
because his group never raises more than the $50,000 annual minimum that
requires tax filings. Pisciotta is a volunteer, as are all the rest who work
there.
On the other hand, the national office of
the Girl Scouts raised more than $100 million last year. This does not include
$700 million in cookie sales. Pisciotta’s group can’t even compete with the
Girl Scout Council of San Jacinto, which raised more than $15 million last
year.
The Girl Scouts is fighting back against
its detractors. Just yesterday, Ann Saladin received a threatening email from a
Girl Scout attorney threatening legal action if she persisted in using the Girl
Scout logo on MyGirlScoutCouncil.com. “We demand that your organization
immediately cease using the Girl Scouts® logo on your flyers. We would
appreciate receiving your assurances by return mail, email, or fax on or before
February 7, 2014 that you will comply with our demand,” wrote Brian Crawford of
the Girl Scouts.
Even so, Pisciotta believes he can have an
effect. After all, he’s been here before.
In 2003 Pisciotta ran what started as a
local boycott after the local Girl Scout Council sponsored a controversial
conference with Planned Parenthood called Nobody’s Fool, at which a booklet was
offered to young children that included, among other things, a boy masturbating,
a drawing of a boy standing at a school chalk board looking at the bulge in his
pants, a naked woman straddling a man, and more. The local council also named
the CEO of Planned Parenthood-Waco as a Woman
of Distinction.
That campaign put Pisciotta and his allies
on local and national television and caused Girl Scouts USA CEO Kathy Cloninger
to go on the Today Show to try to cauterize the wound. It was on that program,
however, that Cloninger admitted that the Girl Scouts works with Planned
Parenthood groups around the country, a statement that has bedeviled the Girl
Scouts since then.
After that boycott, a veritable cottage
industry of Girl Scout reform and opposition groups has sprung up around the
country including MyGirlScoutCouncil.com, 100questionsfortheGirlScouts.com,
SpeakNowGirlScouts.com, GirlScoutsWhyNot.com, and even a Facebook page called
“Make The Girl Scouts Clean Again.”
Since that time, the Girl Scouts has been
on a remarkable slide. Its membership is down 7% from 2.8 million members to
2.2 million. It has had to consolidate councils from 312 to 112. From 2007 to
2011, donations dropped 29% from $148 million to $104 million, and a once $150
million in the black pension fund is now $347 million in the red.
The Girl Scouts organization has shown
sensitivity to the political and humanitarian concerns of its members.
According to the Girl Scout FAQ page, the cocoa used in the cookies is
“conflict free,” and no cookie can be made with genetically modified crops. It
even promises its cookies are made with “corporate sustainability” and “social
responsibility” in mind.
When it comes to pro-life concerns,
however, the Girl Scouts lines up opposite the wishes of millions of former
Girl Scout members who have walked away over that issue in recent years.
Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen
Sebelius is the secretary at the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services for the Barack Obama
administration, and Dora Hughes was
her counselor at HHS.
Note: Howard
K. Koh is the assistant secretary at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services for the Barack Obama
administration, and Harold H. Koh’s
brother.
Harold H. Koh
is Howard K. Koh’s brother, was the State
Department legal adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, Harry A. Blackmun’s clerk,
a director at the Human Rights First,
a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a lawyer for Covington & Burling LLP.
Harry
A. Blackmun’s clerk was Harold H. Koh,
and wrote majority decision for Roe vs. Wade.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Human Rights
First, the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the NAACP Legal Defense &
Educational Fund, the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the Natural Resources Defense
Council, and the Committee for Economic
Development.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American
Constitution Society, the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, and the Natural Resources Defense
Council.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the American
Constitution Society, and the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
Eric H.
Holder Jr. was an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense &
Educational Fund, a board member for the American
Constitution Society, a partner at Covington
& Burling LLP, a director at the Eugene and
Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, and is the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama
administration.
Newman
T. Halvorson Jr. was a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, and is a director at the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer
Foundation.
Barbara
J. Krumsiek is the chair for the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer
Foundation, and a director at Girl Scouts of the USA.
Ingrid
Saunders Jones is a director at Girl Scouts of the USA,
and a director at the Apollo Theater Foundation.
William
Lighten is a director at the Apollo Theater Foundation,
and a director at the NAACP Legal Defense &
Educational Fund.
Henry
Louis Gates Jr. was a director at the Apollo Theater Foundation,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), is a director at the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund, an Oak Bluffs
(MA) homeowner, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, Antoinette
Cook Bush’s stepfather, Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Antoinette
Cook Bush is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s
stepdaughter, and a director at the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer
Foundation.
Barbara
J. Krumsiek is the chair for the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer
Foundation, and a director at Girl Scouts of the USA.
Nancy A.
Reardon is a director at Girl Scouts of the USA,
and was the SVP for the Campbell Soup Company.
Denise
M. Morrison is the president & CEO for the Campbell
Soup Company, and her sister is Mary Agnes Wilderotter.
Mary
Agnes Wilderotter is a Denise M. Morrison’s
sister, and a member of the Belizean Grove.
Henrietta
Holsman Fore is a member of the Belizean Grove,
and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
Henry A. Kissinger
is a member of the Bohemian Club,
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a director at the General
Dynamics Corporation.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), a director at the General Dynamics
Corporation, and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Nicholas
D. Chabraja is a director at the General Dynamics
Corporation, and a director at the Northern
Trust Corporation.
David W.
Fox Jr. is the head of the Americas
for corporate & institutional services for the Northern
Trust Corporation, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Connie
L. Lindsey is the EVP for the Northern Trust Corporation,
and the president of Girl Scouts of the USA.
Susan Crown
is a director at the Northern Trust Corporation,
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and was a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense
Council.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Natural
Resources Defense Council, and the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
R. Eden
Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Dora Hughes
is a senior policy adviser for Sidley Austin LLP,
and was Kathleen Sebelius’s counselor at HHS.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama
was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton N.
Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
W.
James McNerney Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company.
Barbara
G. Fast was a VP at the Boeing Company,
and a VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI
Group Inc. was the Obamacare
contractor that developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Donna S.
Morea was the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.,
and a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Committee
for Economic Development, and Media
Matters,
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, a contributor for MoveOn.org,
is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations,
and the co-chair, national finance council for Ready for
Hillary.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
Ilyse Hogue
is a senior adviser for Media Matters,
the president for the NARAL Pro-Choice
America, and was a director of political advocacy for MoveOn.org.
Amber A.
Mostyn is a national finance council member for Ready for
Hillary, and the chair for Annie's List.
Wendy Davis
was a supporter for the Annie's List,
is a Texas Senate senator, and the candidate
for the 2014 Wendy Davis (TX) gubernatorial campaign.
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