Regarding "Abbott's campaign-year brag misses mark" (Wednesday City & State), with her analysis of the fraud perpetrated by Planned Parenthood in Texas, Lisa Falkenberg ignores the forest of corruption so as to exploit the politically correct tree. Rather than focus any attention on Planned Parenthood for the theft of perhaps $30 millions from Medicaid in Texas, Ms Falkenberg instead uses her platform to attempt to discredit Attorney General Greg Abbott for his role in exposing the crime.
I can't say that she's not consistent. Falkenberg is a reliable supporter of Planned Parenthood, and predictably, she made no mention of their Medicaid misdeeds during the abortion bill debate. What is curious is that even after the initial story of massive fraud was published by the Chronicle, she would consider a little grandstanding by Greg Abbott to be the story. For my money, the thing she ought to be focusing on is that an iconic women's rights organization like Planned Parenthood has revealed themselves - through Medicaid abuse and their fight against abortion reform - to be an organization that is first and foremost in it for the money, however they can get it.
I too am curious as to why Abbott hasn't launched a criminal investigation against Planned Parenthood, but I'm doubly curious as to why President Obama's justice department hasn't either. Perhaps Ms Falkenberg could investigate both angles and get back to us.
Pete Smith
Cypress
And lest you think I'm exaggerating about Lisa Falkenberg's endless capacity to get her back up when people even inconvenience Planned Parenthood, check out her Riff about the sinister pro-lifers that upset a Planned Parenthood Happy Hour:
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