Code Pink founder an Obama bundler
Posted: Friday, June 13, 2008 11:34 AM by Domenico Montanaro
From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro
The founder of liberal activist anti-war group Code Pink -- known for disrupting Hill hearings and interrupted some of Clinton’s events -- is an Obama bundler, reports Politico’s Jonathan Martin.
Jodie Evans, the Code Pink founder, is listed on
Obama’s Web site as a “bundler” who is “raising from $50,000 to $100,000.”
But she’s not exactly completely in line with Obama. On why she supports Obama, Evans writes the following on her Obama
blog profile: “I want to stop Hillary, I am impressed with his ideas and ideals and that he has an amazing wife and listens to her. He plays it a bit too safe for me and I hate his lack of leadership on the war. But no one is perfect. I trust him more than anyone else in the race.”
Martin writes that the GOP is shopping research on Evans, quoting her as “saying that women were better off in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, ‘Men are dying in their Hummers in Iraq so you can drive around in yours’ and, my favorite, that the invasion of Iraq amounted to ‘global testosterone poisoning.’” (A few examples of what the right wing blogs are saying here and here and here.)
Martin continues, “Evans, though, is not just a single-issue crusader. She's worked in politics and liberal causes for decades, including stints working for Jerry Brown during his years as governor and in his 1992 White House run. That an activist liberal is raising money for Obama isn't all that surprising. But in a campaign that has been dominated as much by the associates of candidates as the candidates themselves (Jeremiah Wright, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush), Evans is a reminder that what may not have mattered much in a primary has the potential to be resonant in the general.”
From Evans’ Code Pink bio: “In 1991, she came back together with her friend Jerry Brown to run his campaign for President which was based on political reform and a $100. contribution limit. The innovations she began in his campaign have become the standard in all campaigns.” In Brown’s administration, she “held a cabinet post as Governor Brown's Director of Administration,” according to one Web site.
