Team Abortion Barbie keepin’ it classy.
Via Free Beacon:
Progress Texas last week released an attack ad implying that Attorney General Greg Abbot was potentially responsible for the deaths of cancers patients, an attack reminiscent of smears leveled at Mitt Romney in 2012.
The advertisement attempts to link the misallocation of funds at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to Abbot.
CPRIT was an initiative of Governor Rick Perry’s. According to the San Antonio Express, “two huge grants” in 2012 were awarded to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and a start up bio-tech firm. The grants were found to be “awarded hastily, without proper review and potentially involving conflicts of interests.”
This misallocation led to civil and criminal investigations.
Abbott was on the CPRIT’s governing board, which was responsible for providing oversight, but he did not attend any of the meetings. Instead, Abbott appointed Jay Dyer to represent him, and Dyer attended fifteen out of twenty-two meetings.