by David Safier
The "Which right wing group is going to hire soon-to-be-ex-Rep Terri Proud?" game is over. She's the Executive Director of 4Tucson. From the About 4Tucson page:
4Tucson, a nonprofit organization, was founded in 2009 in Tucson Arizona by a local pastor, Mark Harris. Mark was brought together by locals with a common belief that Tucson lacked meaningful guidance.
The group has what it calls a Domain Strategy: "12 Domains of influence within our city." I looked up the Education Domain.
[The Education Domain Director, Bernadette Gruber] has a passion for equipping Christians to confidently live out their faith in the school, work, and public arena. She has organized educational workshops and trainings for teachers and administrators impacting 9 school districts throughout Tucson. In addition, she has facilitated Bible Studies focusing on how to connect our faith with our culture, which spread across various Christian denominations. Bernadette had been a featured guest on Women to Women, America’s Fabric, Family Life Radio and KVOI. She has presented constitutionally sound Bible lessons to hundreds of students in 3 major Tucson public school districts and was instrumental in establishing Arizona’s first Religious Freedom Day Proclamation signed by Governor Brewer in January 2011.
You can find the names of other Domain Directors here. They include Rick Stertz, from the Independent Redistricting Commission and Paul Parisi, former Oro Valley Town Council member.
It's been around since 2009, and hasn't made much of a ripple, but it looks like it plans to be more of a presence. Its website is unfinished and looks like it was either recently created or updated.
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How does a high school graduate get a job like this?
“Domain” or “Dominionism,” the term used to describe politically active conservative Christians who are believed to seek influence or control (or “dominion,” to use a Biblical word) over secular civil government through political action, especially in the United States, with the goal of establishing either a nation governed by Christians or one governed by a conservative Christian understanding of biblical law.
“…constitutionally sound Bible lessons to hundreds of students in 3 major Tucson public school districts…” Oh, I would love to see how those lesson plans fit into the State curriculum.
This group is the perfect match for Terri’s “strengths”: Her need to dominate and her inability to think critically.
Right wing welfare funded by fundies.