I'm loving this with a passion. Planned Parenthood was vital to me early in my life, and as most know, is sometimes the only venue of contraception/gynecological services for many low and no income women.
Last week I read a post at Tbogg's about an email he recieved-
Instead of us all sending around more emails about how horrible Sarah Palin is, let's all make a donation to Planned Parenthood.
In Sarah Palin's name.
And here's the good part: when you make a donation to PP in her name, they'll send her a card telling her that the donation has been made in her honor.
Here's the link to the Planned Parenthood website
You'll need to fill in the address to let PP know where to send the "in Sarah Palin's honor" card. I suggest you use the address for the McCain campaign headquarters, which is:
McCain for President
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington , VA 22202
PS make sure you use that link above or choose the pulldown of Donate--Honorary or Memorial Donations, not the regular "Donate Online"
We wrote about it soon after, encouraging our readers to viral the email. We got tons of great feedback about it.
Today, this from the Rocky Mountain News-
Planned Parenthood receives donations from grassroots e-mail campaign
A grassroots e-mail campaign is asking Obama supporters to stop complaining about Republican GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and to donate $10 to Planned Parenthood in her name instead. Subsequently, the non-profit has received tens of thousands of dollars in donations the past week. Furthermore, for each donation they receive in Palin's name, a hand written thank you note will be sent to the McCain headquarters in Virginia.
The most important part (other than one source quotes an end total of close to 100k)?
"We are so excited to see that people are writing checks to us instead of just complaining about it," Ellis said Tuesday.
Amen.
Just imagine all those "donation cards" flowing into McCain/Palin World HQ, each one representing a woman who can get her contraception or exam when before she couldn't. Awesome.
Here's a video from the Rocky Mountain site at this link. I can't get it to embed and there is a commercial to start.
ADDED-
webranding has the Alaska addy if you'd rather have the donation card sent there to await her return to the frozen tundra after Obama/Biden whup their butts.
Alaska State Capitol Building
Third Floor
P.O. Box 110001
Juneau, AK 99811-0001
Send around the original link to the Rocky Mountain News storyto any news outlets you know of. I'll start a list here-
shuster@msnbc.com
countdown@msnbc.com
rachel@msnbc.com
Only email addy I can find for the Anchorage Daily News- online@adn.com