Talk to Action: Wade Leaps

By cyncooper
Tue Apr 03, 2007 at 01:02:26 PM EST

Wade Horn resigned as Assistant Secretary of Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services yesterday, and effective this weekend. I wrote about Horn in "Hand That Feeds" onTalk2Action a few weeks ago. Horn is a go-to guy for the Religious Right but he always seemed to get a free pass from the media. I focused a recent grant his department gave for $1 million to an organization that he founded, the National Fatherhood Initiative.

There were other questionable grants by Horn -- giving money to reporters to write articles, funding a group on whose board he had been seated. He oversaw the failed abstinence program, and set up "Responsible Fatherhood," which sounded identical to the right-wing pet project he previously ran. On the rare occasions when explanations were sought, they sounded absurd but never attracted much attention.