Religion News Service: The Guru from Grenada

Date: 
Tue, 06/24/2008
By: 
Daniel Burke

Three former advisers for Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, including her top religious outreach strategist, have joined a veteran religious consultant to form the Eleison Group.

Burns Strider, a former congressional insider named by RNS as one the top 12 people helping Dems "get religion" in 2006, headed Clinton's outreach to religious voters. By many measures, it was a successful endeavor, with Catholics and many evangelicals turning out in droves for the New York senator. He's also the only native of Grenada County, Mississippi ever to earn the nickname "guru."

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