Notre Dame Trustee Resigns; Chicago Trib Relays Claim She ‘Didn’t Realize’ Emily’s List’s Proabort Mission
There must be something in Chicagoland's drinking water which causes either acute memory loss or a persistent inability to pay attention. First, we had presidential candidate Barack Obama, who sat in Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ for nearly two decades, but who supposedly had no idea Pastor Wright was so hostile towards America (” US KKK of A “), its history (we deserved the 9/11 attacks because of Hirsohima and Nagasaki ), and its white citizens (the ” white supremacy Rhetorical Ethic “). Now we have Roxanne Martino, a Chicago-area member of the University of Notre Dame's Board of Trustees, who resigned Wednesday after serving less than two months. The Cardinal Newman Society noted that Martino had made $27,150 in political contributions to Emily's List over a 12-year period. Her claim, relayed through the board's chairman and the university's president, is that she “didn't realize any of the organizations she supported also promoted abortion rights.” Uh, Roxanne — Emily's List has only one mission : “electing pro-choice Democratic women to office.” Here's some of the Chicago Tribune's skepticism-free take : A Chicago business executive resigned Wednesday from the University of Notre Dame's board of trustees after a conservative Roman Catholic watchdog group reported that she donated thousands of dollars to an organization that says it is “dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women.”
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