Reprinted Bulletin exclusive from U.S. News & World Report:
Eaves To Attack Barbour From The Right On Social Issues. The Democratic consultants who have spent the years since 2004 trying to reverse the Democratic Party's secular image and who are credited with Democratic gains among evangelicals and other religious voters in the 2006 midterms have signed onto the campaign of a Mississippi gubernatorial candidate who will test the limits of the Democratic Party's willingness to embrace social conservatives. The Washington, DC-based Common Good strategies, started by the religious outreach director for Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, will be working to elect John Arthur Eaves, who announced today that he will be challenging Republican Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour in 2007. Eaves is an outspoken evangelical Christian who is anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage and whose internal campaign literature includes an emphasis on reintroducing school prayer to public schools. "When we took prayer out of school," the document says, "we denied our children the ability to explore one of the most important questions they should be asking: why do we exist and what is our purpose in being here?" A source close to the campaign says Eaves will also work to take advantage of evangelical discontent with Barbour over allowing casinos to come on shore.
Posted by David Mariner at February 27, 2007 11:19 PM