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Mike McCurry joins Kerry campaign as adviser

 


Mike McCurry joins Kerry campaign as adviser

Sept. 14, 2004

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by John C. Goodwin


Mike McCurry

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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