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Drew Ryun:
Current Executive Director for the American Majority of Texas and Oklahoma (www.AmericanMajority.org), Drew Ryun recently served as Director of Government Affairs for the American Center for Law and Justice in Washington, DC as well as Main Representative for the European Center for Law and Justice at the United Nations in New York City.
A twice-published author, Drew has appeared frequently as host and co-host of Jay Sekulow Live, a nationally syndicated radio show with 2 million listeners. A former Deputy Director in the political division at the Republican National Committee during the 2004 election cycle, Drew has played a key role in organizing grassroots activities for House, Senate and Presidential campaigns.
Currently residing in San Antonio, TX, Drew and his wife Becca direct the Jim Ryun Running Camps every summer (www.ryunrunning.com) and are the parents of two daughters, Skye and Lily.
A former scholarship runner at the University of Kansas, Drew graduated cum laude with majors in History and English in May of 2000.
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The Hits Just Keep Coming
For Planned Parenthood. On Friday, the Miami Herald reported that five chapters of Planned Parenthood in Florida had been temporarily shut down due to “financial mismanagement.” That is the kind way of saying, “We cooked the books and got caught.”
Planned Parenthood gets over $300 million a year from the American taxpayer. For fiscal year 2006-2007, Planned Parenthood reported a surplus (yes, surplus) of $112 million.
Two questions beg answers-why do we continue to give Planned Parenthood that much money? And two, what is Congress going to do about this? It holds the purse strings. It can say, “We gave you this money, we demand an account of it.” If it were any other organization that received millions of federal dollars there would be hue and cry to drag that organization and its officers before committees to explain themselves and their practices. As of yet, there has been no such cry.
From the Herald:
“Planned Parenthood clinics in Broward County are turning away thousands seeking their services as the national organization investigates allegations of financial mismanagement.
Over the past three years, the chapter’s two top officers have left, at least four trustees have resigned and allegations have been raised suggesting its annual report was falsified.
As a result, all four clinics in Broward are shut down, and it’s not clear when — and if — they will reopen.
Meanwhile, several former board members say that they brought their concerns about improprieties to the national organization almost two years ago.
The board’s current chairman, Alex Arreaza, says he can’t recall whether the local agency’s 2006 annual report was duplicated from the previous year, as one employee has charged. But he acknowledged the board is investigating whether the numbers in 2006 were fabricated and any money is missing. For now, the clinics remain in limbo.”
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