Sebelius Caught Underreporting Campaign Contributions from Notorious Abortionist: HHS Nomination May be in Jeopardy

From LifeSiteNews
By Kathleen Gilbert

The Washington career of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius may be in danger after it was revealed that the Health nominee reported only a fraction of her campaign contributions from Kansas' late-term abortionist George Tiller. At least one GOP senator reportedly said the issue has raised doubts among Republican senators about the governor, a well-known champion of abortion that Obama picked to head the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS).

After the full senate confirmation vote was delayed earlier this month, the Senate Finance Committee probed Sebelius' connection to notorious late-term Kansas abortionist George Tiller in a list of questions that were published this week with the governor's answers.

However, in her answers Sebelius reported only about one third of the actual sum of campaign contributions that she received from George Tiller, despite a specific question from Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., about Tiller's contributions to her Political Action Committee (PAC).

The senator asked: "Can you describe your relationship with Mr. Tiller? Has he ever contributed to your campaign or has your PAC ever received money from Mr. Tiller or a PAC related to Mr. Tiller?"

Sebelius responded: "I have been familiar with Dr. Tiller for many years because he lives and works in Kansas. Dr. Tiller, like many Kansans, contributed to my campaign for insurance commissioner. I received $12,450 over an eight-year period (1994-2001), which represented 1 percent of my total contributions during that time. Since that time, I have received no donations from Dr. Tiller or any PAC related to him."

Contribution and expenditure reports on file with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission, however, reportedly show the figure to be closer to $38,450 - a discrepancy of $26,000.

The HHS said yesterday that the omission was an "oversight" Sebelius would correct.

A senior Senate Republican aide told the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) that the affair is now considered a transparency issue as well as a life issue, and is something the GOP intends to probe.

The Sebelius nomination has been stridently opposed by pro-life advocates who have cited her personal and financial ties to the abortion industry, in addition to her pro-abortion record. However, their concerns were not aired in Sebelius' first two confirmation hearings.

"Ironically, Sebelius' relationship with Tiller helped launch her career, and now her attempts to minimize that relationship could very well be her undoing," said Operation Rescue president Troy Newman. "You can't dance with the devil and not expect to have to pay the piper."

"Oversight of taxes is one thing, but this reveals a deadly alliance," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, told CBN today. Earlier in the confirmation process, Sebelius was forced to pay more than $7,000 in back taxes to fix improper deductions.

"It calls into question how she could oversee America's healthcare system objectively, and not be tainted by these alliances with the abortion industry," Perkins said.

He noted that Sebelius' apparent dissembling on abortion funds coupled with her entrenched opposition to minimal late-term abortion regulations could paint a troubling picture for senators.

"I think this changes the landscape of the Sebelius nomination," said Perkins. "At this point it raises the question: what else has she not told us? What other things remain in Sebelius' closet? ... What other political connections may have tainted her decisions as governor?"

Another Obama Nominee Tax Cheat

. . . Sebelius admits "errors," pays $7,000 in back taxes

From AP

Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors"—the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee.

The Kansas governor explained the changes to senators in a letter dated Tuesday that the administration released. She said they involved charitable contributions, the sale of a home and business expenses.

Sebelius said she filed the amended returns as soon as the errors were discovered by an accountant she hired to scrub her taxes in preparation for her confirmation hearings. She and her husband, Gary, a federal magistrate judge in Kansas, paid a total of $7,040 in back taxes and $878 in interest to amend returns from 2005-2007.

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Obama to Nominate the Doyenne of Death to be HHS Secretary

Governor Sebelius with "Dr. Death," Criminal Abortionist George Tiller

It is expected that Obama will announce tomorrow the appointment of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Virtually all the appointees of this, the most stridently pro-abortion administration ever, are pro-aborts. However, Ms. Sebelius has distinguished herself as the nation's doyenne of death. She has accepted over $20,000 in political contributions from the nation's most notorious abortionist, Dr. George Tiller, and even hosted a dinner for him in the Governor's Mansion. He has performed over 60,000 abortions and is now being prosecuted for 19 counts relating to illegal late-term and partial birth abortions.

Bill O'Reilly's "The Factor" has reported that Tiller was aborting babies of girls aged 10-15, including victims of forcible rape, "and those abortions were not reported to authorities as required by law" O'Reilly said, "so the criminals who impregnated the girls have so far gotten away with it."

The Kansas Attorney General has stated, "When you have a 10- or 11-year-old child who is pregnant, and gets an abortion, and no one calls the police, it's likely a family member that is abusing that child."

Efforts are now underway to gin up phony Catholic organizations to provide political cover and support for this outrageous nomination. But the last three Archbishops of Kansas City have made clear that Ms. Sebelius is no Catholic. She was rebuked in 1992 by Archbishop Ignatius Strecker for leading what he termed a "death march for the unborn." In 2003, Archbishop James Keleher asked her to move her inauguration interfaith service from Topeka’s Assumption Catholic Church because of her scandalous abortion advocacy. She refused. The current Archbishop of Kansas City, Joseph Naumann, has told her she should refrain from receiving Holy Communion.

Obama appointees have a tendency to derail themselves for such things as not paying the taxes they levy on everyone else. But this nominee needs to be vigorously opposed for her very public and militant record advocating unlimited abortion, and for her close association with the most unscrupulous profiteers in that demonic industry.

Kansas Governor Sebelius Considered for HHS

Radical Pro-Abort on Short List

By Jennifer Loven

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was very near the top of President Barack Obama's list of candidates to head the Health and Human Services Department, a senior administration official said Saturday.

The source, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private administration deliberations, said no decision was imminent. But the official said the former Kansas.

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