“Matthew 25” for Obama
June 10, 2008
The New York Times Michael Luo is out with a story about a new CHRISTIAN Political Action Committee that is out to raise money for Barack Obama. It’s called “The Matthew 25 Network”.
More below:
A fund-raiser is being held tonight in Washington for a nascent political action committee that is hoping to reach out to Christian communities on behalf of Senator Barack Obama.
Called “The Matthew 25 Network,” the new organization, which is still in its earliest stages, is being spearheaded by Mara Vanderslice, who was director of religious outreach for the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004 and did similar work for several statewide Democratic candidates, including Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio, Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Governor Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas.
Ms. Vanderslice, who has been active in the budding movement over the last few years to encourage Democrats to be more willing to discuss matters of faith, declined to detail the group’s plans, because she said the organization is planning an official rollout later in the month.
Nevertheless, according to a description of the group that came with the invitation to its fund-raiser tonight in which the suggested contribution is $1,000, the committee is hoping to reach out to “targeted religious communities that are key to electoral success for Senator Obama, including Catholics, moderate evangelicals, Hispanic Catholics and Protestants.”
Mike McCurry, a former White House press secretary under President Clinton, is the most prominent name on the invitation to the event tonight in which the suggested contribution is $1,000.
Mr. McCurry described the group as very much a “work in progress” and said tonight’s event is more of an “exploratory meeting” to gauge support.
But he said, if the group does manage to get going, his sense was the goal would be to focus most heavily on “white evangelicals who are non-conservative.”
“That could be a pretty significant component of the Obama vote if done correctly,” he said.
The whole article is here:
The Brody File will have more details on this soon. Standy for that. In the meantime, my goodness. First we had The Joshua Generation Project. Now The Matthew 25 Network. What next? Will the Obama camp break out the John 3:16 rally caps? This whole thing is pretty mind blowing. I think I found the Obama campaign theme song on You Tube. Watch it here.
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