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http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/02/black_pastors_vote_after_liste/print.html

Black pastors vote after listening to Jesse Jackson
Posted by kturner February 26, 2008 20:26PM
About 25 prominent Cleveland-area black pastors cast their primary ballots Tuesday as a sign to encourage their congregations to get out and vote.

Nearly all the clergy who gathered around noon at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections were supporters of Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

But their main purpose was to uphold the importance of voting, said the Rev. C. Jay Matthews, pastor of Mt. Sinai Baptist Church in Cleveland and president of United Pastors in Mission.

Now they can go back to their churches and say, "If we did it, we're expecting you to do it," said the Rev. Rodney Maiden of Providence Baptist Church in Cleveland.

The clergy cast their votes after a United Pastors' meeting at Antioch Baptist Church, where the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a black presidential candidate in the 1980s, spoke on behalf of Obama.

Jackson, scheduled to be an analyst for NBC at the debate Tuesday, said Obama represents "the maturing of the success of our struggle. .¤.¤. I see a new heaven. I see a new America, where we learn to live together."

Where is the DOJ and IRS when you need them?