Komen in trouble, 'employee morale is in the toilet'

This from "Daily Kos" -- please follow link to original. Also, please DO NOT support the Susan Komen Foundation and their anti-choice politics. Their policies end up being ANTI-WOMAN.
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Komen in trouble, 'employee morale is in the toilet'

How do you take a powerful brand and completely destroy it in one fell swoop? Ask the people at Susan G. Komen for the Cure; they'll tell you.

According to Laura Basset at Huffington Post, things are not going well for Komen, even since it decided to shoot itself in the foot by siding with anti-choice extremists—including the Catholic Church—who had been demanding that Komen stop funding breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood.

And Komen has been paying the price for its disastrous mistake ever since:

Two top executives at Susan G. Komen for the Cure have announced their resignation, amid reports that the breast cancer charity is struggling to raise money and repair its reputation after its decision to defund Planned Parenthood and subsequent reversal. [...]

A Komen insider told HuffPost that "employee morale is in the toilet" since Komen leadership made the controversial decision to defund Planned Parenthood, one of the nation's most prominent women's health and family planning organizations. The move was led by anti-abortion executive Karen Handel, then Komen's senior vice president for public policy, who has since resigned.

And as for Nancy Brinker, Komen's founder and CEO, who couldn't keep her excuses straight when she tried to explain how Komen's blatantly political decision wasn't a blatantly political decision?

"Brinker in complete meltdown," the source wrote to HuffPost. "People want her to resign but she won't."

Brinker should step down, of course; it's one of several necessary steps Komen must take if it wants to restore its reputation. But since Brinker's too busy melting down, apparently, to do what's right for the organization she founded, Komen continues to lose executives, cancel its fundraisers, and struggle to find once-loyal supporters who are still willing to stand with an organization that put politics before women's health.

In other words, Komen is getting exactly what it deserves. As Komen's "staunchly and unequivocally pro-life" former senior vice president of public policy, Karen Handel, would say, "Cry me a river."