From: Christopher.Young@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU From: Michael.Mauldin@G.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Without permission from "Ms.", March 1989: The Pizza Connection Is a slice of the Domino's pie giong to fund antiabortion activites? Seems that way. Appearing on a telethon last fall, Tom Monaghan, president and founder of Domino's Pizza, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, donated $50,000 to Michigan Right to Life's "Committee To End Tax-Funded Abortions." Their November referendum passed; Medicaid-funded abortions are now barred in the state. The donation from Monaghan, a devout Catholic, was "a personal contribution," Domino's spokesman Ron Hingst said. But searching through state records, Zipper also uncovered a $10,000 gift to the committee from Domino's Farms Corporation, a Monaghan-owned company that, though separate from Domino's Pizza Inc., "obviously" makes its money from pizza sales, Hignst said. Domino's is also embroiled in a battle with the Ann Arbor chapter of NOW. Last May, the group alleges, Domino's Farms canceled a NOW event at its publicly available facility after learning it would raise pro-choice monies. (A Right to Life fund-raiser had already been held there.) NOW filed a civil rights complaint, charging religious discrimination; the case is pending. Says Jan BenDor, president of Ann Arbor NOW and the event's organizer, "There's no reason any self-respecting feminist should by Domino's pizza." **==> That was Doug Philips's plan file.