Who is Tom Golisano? – Ave Maria University’s New Face
» Thu, November 5th, 2009 - 12:45 pm CST- Address for this article: http://avewatch.com/?p=279
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UPDATE, 11/13/09 – Be sure to read the follow-up AveWatch articles “Ave Maria University’s Golisano and NARAL Both Endorsed the Same 50 NY Politicians Last Year“, “Ave Maria’s $4 Million Donor Gave $1 Million for Obama Coronation“, and “Ave Maria University Donor: “… I’m pro-choice.””
Original AveWatch article:
Early yesterday morning, AveWatch released the article “Who is Tom Golisano?” Later in the day, local rumblings started over a mystery donor to Ave Maria University.
Today, Tom Monaghan announced that a $4 million donation from Golisano will be used to build a new student recreation center at AMU, named after Golisano. See: Reuters, Buffalo News, Naples Daily News. Click below for more…
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Golisano’s powerful new involvement and influence at Ave Maria University has enormous implications. It is a fork in the road. In years to come, this will likely be the point at which many in the public start recognizing what is behind Ave Maria’s ideology, character, and management.
The fiscally conservative, socially liberal/tolerant Golisano…
- …is the founder of a political party that is content to tolerate abortion, serving as home to leftists such as Lenora Fulani
- …is a significant contributor to the political campaigns of pro-choice Democrats
- …is a significant contributor to the Bill Clinton Foundation
- …has a children’s hospital bearing his name, part of a facility where abortions are performed and local New York pro-lifers picket
- …is a thrice-divorced 67 year old dating a 35 year old woman
For the constant promotional talk given to how transcendent the Catholic Church’s teaching and marriage-centered pro-life values are for all that is Ave Maria, the pursuit of Golisano’s money by Tom Monaghan is dumbfounding.
Golisano ran three unsuccessful campaigns for Governor of New York under the abortion-tolerant Independence Party platform that he founded. He will find out soon enough that Tom Monaghan cannot deliver much of anything when it comes to Catholics and pro-lifers, including votes. Monaghan can’t even mobilize a crowd of protesters to the local abortion clinic.
Bottom line:
Political fiscal conservatism appears to be the last non-negotiable tenet to Ave Maria.
Who can still doubt the pretense that drives Tom Monaghan’s Ave Maria?
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