Komen Sees Significant and Predictable Decline in Ohio’s Race for the Cure Participation
LatestThings are going predictably poorly for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, saw about 2,000 fewer participants in this year’s Susan G. Komen Northeast Ohio Race for the Cure than last year’s pre-controversy version. The organization had guessed that, ever since it decided to pull funding for breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood, fewer people would show up to race for the cure, and on that score Komen has proved extremely prescient — turnout for Saturday’s event in northeast Ohio was only about 10,000, way down from a peak of 21,000 in 2006.