Faith groups targeting N.C. senators

kkiley — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:48:25 -0400

Faith-based organizations are targeting U.S. Sens. Kay Hagan and Richard Burr during the Fourth of July weekend.

A group of national religious organizations including Faithful America and the PICO National Network and are hoping to influence the senators to vote for more affordable family health care by airing radio commercials during Congress' Independance Day recess.

Joe Harvard, of the First Presbyterian Church in Durham, speaks on the commercial airing in North Carolina. "This is not who we are as a nation," Harvard says. "America can do better."

The group is also airing commercials in Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana and Nebraska, targeting legislators in those states. They can be heard at the group's Web site.