Mike McCurry joins Kerry campaign as adviser
Sept. 14, 2004
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A UMNS file photo by John C. Goodwin Mike McCurry
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Former
White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry , Baltimore-Washington,
speaks during a luncheon in Pittsburgh sponsored by the Methodist
Federation for Social Action. McCurry is a delegate to the United
Methodist Church's 2004 General Conference. A UMNS photo by John C.
Goodwin. Photo number GC04066, 4/28/04.
Mike McCurry, photo #04-397, accompanies story #412. |
By United Methodist News Service Mike
McCurry, former press secretary to President Clinton and a delegate to
the 2004 United Methodist General Conference, is joining John Kerry’s
campaign for the presidency as an adviser, according to news reports. The
Associated Press reported Sept. 14 that McCurry will be traveling with
Kerry as a non-paid senior adviser. He will start Sept. 15. "He
will be a very big part of the team," campaign spokesman David Wade
said in a Bloomberg News story. A call from United Methodist News
Service to the campaign had not been returned by press time. McCurry
was a delegate to the United Methodist Church’s top legislative
assembly last spring in Pittsburgh. He is a member of St. Paul’s United
Methodist Church in Kensington, Md., where he has served as Sunday
school superintendent and teacher. United
Methodists are on both major-party tickets in this year’s presidential
campaign. On the Republican ticket, President Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney are both United Methodists, as is John Edwards,
the Democratic vice presidential nominee. McCurry
served as press secretary for President Clinton from 1995 to 1998, a
period that saw the White House weathering the Monica Lewinsky scandal
and impeachment. Previously, he was spokesman for the Department of
State. He
is a principal in the consulting firm of Public Strategies Washington
and chairman of Grassroots Enterprise Inc., an issue advocacy software
provider. He
serves on several boards and advisory councils. He is an at-large
member of the governing commission of United Methodist Communications,
an agency of the United Methodist Church. (UMNS is a unit of the
agency.) He also has been on the board of governors of Wesley
Theological Seminary in Washington.
News media contact: Tim Tanton, Nashville, Tenn., (615) 742-5470 or newsdesk@umcom.org.
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