Brownback's Biggest Supporter: Monaghan (Domino's Pizza)

[CurtEastPoint]

The pizza tastes like crap anyway. Interesting comments by a priest!

From the KC Newspaper:

Brownback’s big backer
Help of ex-pizza mogul could start a domino effect of fundraising for the Kansas Republican.
By MATT STEARNS
The Star’s Washington correspondent

WASHINGTON | Domino’s pizza founder Tom Monaghan, one of the nation’s richest and most controversial Roman Catholic philanthropists, wants to deliver Sen. Sam Brownback to the White House.

Monaghan is advising the 2008 presidential exploratory committee for Brownback, a longtime social conservative who converted to Catholicism a few years ago.

Monaghan is expected to play a lead role in “Catholics for Brownback.” But, more important, his support and network is likely to spice up Brownback’s fundraising, which is currently regarded as the weakest part of the Kansas Republican’s candidacy.

“He brings to the table recognition in the Catholic community,” said Marlene Elwell, a Michigan political activist who used to work for Monaghan. “It’s always positive to have a leader in a community endorse you.”

“I hope he’ll help us in a number of ways, with people he knows around the country,” Brownback said. He downplayed their relationship, however, saying last week the two had seen each other “a couple of times, not on a regular basis.”

Monaghan declined an interview request.

The extent of Monaghan’s religious fervor could raise eyebrows among more secular voters.

“In the Catholic community, he’s looked upon as kind of on the fringes,” said the Rev. Robert Drinan, a liberal Roman Catholic priest and former Democratic congressman who teaches at Georgetown University. “The world view is, ‘We have to get back to a Catholic civilization.’ They want to go back to a Christian society imposed from above. … It’s just another world they want to build.”

Literally: Monaghan, who sold Domino’s for nearly $1 billion in 1998, has spent a chunk of his fortune developing his own utopia on 5,000 acres in southwest Florida — Ave Maria, a planned community of 11,000 homes, built around a massive church and a doctrinaire Catholic university also called Ave Maria.

Monaghan founded Ave Maria University and funded it with $250 million of his own money.

[tblue]

1. I didn't know Domino's was sold. Good, cuz now I can go there again. I don't like spending money

only to have it end up supporting r/w causes.

[emulatorloo]

2. required reading on Brownback, if you haven't already

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9178374/gods_senator

God's Senator
Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brownback

<snip>

After little more than a decade in Washington, Brownback has managed to position himself at the very center of the Christian conservative uprising that is transforming American politics. Just six years ago, winning the evangelical vote required only a veneer of bland normalcy, nothing more than George Bush's vague assurance that Jesus was his favorite philosopher. Now, Brownback seeks something far more radical: not faith-based politics but faith in place of politics. In his dream America, the one he believes both the Bible and the Constitution promise, the state will simply wither away. In its place will be a country so suffused with God and the free market that the social fabric of the last hundred years -- schools, Social Security, welfare -- will be privatized or simply done away with. There will be no abortions; sex will be confined to heterosexual marriage. Men will lead families, mothers will tend children, and big business and the church will take care of all.

<snip>

[tridim]

4. Wow, that sounds like fascist hell.

Why would a "religious man" like Brownback want America to resemble hell?

[Clark2008]

9. Sounds more like a neo-con white man's daydream than anything Jesus

would support.

[saintsteven7]

3. Just What We Need

The infuence of religion on politics. That hasn't gotten this country into trouble before, has it?

By the way, Domino's is not real pizza.

[Daylin Byak]

5. I don't know what your on

But I had Dominos yesturday, I had a thin crust with chicken kickers and cinnastixs and I will say it's the most delicious pizza and food all together I have ever had, it is real pizza. If you all want to go on a tyrad about the company cause because they donate money to Republicans that's your business but i'll go on supporting Domino's cause 1. they make damn good pizza and 2. cause they can donated to and support whoever political party or candidate they want, it's there choice. Why just because there Domino's there forced to donate to Democrats...give me a break.

[HockeyMom]

6. 12 years of Catholic Schooling,

turned me off at the age of 16. That is just from the MAINSTREAM Catholic viewpoint, let alone the extremist Opus Dei.

[Fovea]

7. That just lost him the pizza hut vote.

Say so long to Wichita voters Sam.

[greenbriar]

8. I have his campaign commercials when he first ran for senator

he thinks his wife and kids are nothign but props


he is a sick pervert