{"id":155840,"date":"2016-11-01T19:56:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=155840"},"modified":"2016-11-01T19:56:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:56:55","slug":"planned-parenthood-uses-different-organization-name-recruit-canvassers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-uses-different-organization-name-recruit-canvassers\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood uses different organization name to recruit canvassers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes you really have to\u00a0read the fine print on advertisements. Not everyone does —\u00a0and that\u00a0seems to be\u00a0the way Planned Parenthood wanted it.<\/p>\n

The abortion chain reportedly used\u00a0deceptive job ads to recruit workers to canvas voters in North Carolina, but it wasn\u2019t to oppose toll roads, as the ad seemed to say. Instead, the recruitment was a front for a Planned Parenthood group\u00a0— the sole\u00a0motivation of which was to help Planned Parenthood further its political cause, local news station WBTV reports.<\/a><\/p>\n

WBTV uncovered the deception in one of its investigative segments\u00a0when\u00a0a local resident became suspicious after applying for job with an organization called Community Outreach Group (COG). The job seemed more partisan than advertised, and, oddly enough,\u00a0didn\u2019t seem to be focused on toll roads at all…<\/p>\n

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The $15 an hour job ad certainly<\/em> didn\u2019t say anything about working for Planned Parenthood, but a line at the end of the ad was perhaps a\u00a0hint:<\/a><\/p>\n

Community Outreach Group is hiring Outreach Workers to knock on doors and convince people to vote and vote for our endorsed candidates<\/em>. We’re not happy about the toll plans in Charlotte and we need your help to ensure this boondoggle is reversed. We’ll also be communicating a pro-women’s health<\/strong>, pro-education message.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’ve been paying attention long enough, you’ll know that women\u2019s health and education are keywords that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain,\u00a0uses to make its facilities sound like positive community-focused health clinics rather than abortion facilities.<\/p>\n

A WBTV undercover reporter asked the local Community Outreach Group office if they were talking about tolls when they went out to canvas, and the truth came out:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we\u2019re up in Huntersville, yeah, we talk about the toll roads. We\u2019re also talking to folks about getting out the vote and that sort of thing,\u201d an office worker said. \u201cIt all kind of depends on where we are that day and, kind of, what the messaging is that day. It\u2019s not exclusively tolls. When we\u2019re up in Huntersville, a lot of times it’s toll stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, though, the office worker told our producer the group wasn\u2019t affiliated with any anti-toll group and, instead, was a part of Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re part of, uh, I don\u2019t know how to describe it,\u201d one office worker said when asked by our producer what organization Community Outreach Group was affiliated with. \u201cIn-house vendor for Planned Parenthood,\u201d a second worker said from another room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that\u2019s exactly what Community Outreach Group, LLC is<\/a>\u2014a Planned Parenthood vendor. Its own web page description says:<\/a><\/p>\n

Community Outreach Group, LLC (COG) is part of Planned Parenthood, but a separate organization that is available to act as a vendor of large-scale advocacy and electoral programs for affiliates, local c4 organizations, Planned Parenthood entities for paid canvassing, organizing, short-term staffing, and full-service campaign management.<\/p>\n

The Community Outreach Group was created as an extension of Planned Parenthood to focus on the delivery of high-quality outreach programs. We grew out of Planned Parenthood\u2019s Affordable Care Act efforts in 2013 and tested our program in the 2014 mid-term elections.<\/strong> So far, the Community Outreach Group has helped Planned Parenthood to knock on nearly 4 million doors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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