New Gamaliel Foundation director says "I'm too Catholic to be liberal"

In January, Garcia-Ashley was promoted to executive director of the Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation. She's only the second person to hold that job in the 25-year history of the organization that once served as a training ground for a young Chicago community organizer named Barack Obama.

The job has put her organization on the radar screen of conservative critics of Obama, one of whom recently referred to Gamaliel as a "radical left-wing" foundation that "uses the tactics espoused by community organizing guru Saul Alinsky to incite church members to agitate for socialism."

She calls the socialism claim "very misguided, defamatory and untrue."

"We talk about social justice, not socialism," she says.

As for herself, she says she's not even a liberal. "I'm too Catholic to be liberal," she says.

In the face of such criticism, she's tasked with carrying out the new strategic plan for the group - getting networks going in all 19 states where the foundation operates. There's one already in operation, called WISDOM, in Wisconsin - that she helped create.

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It just so happens that Gamaliel is also supporting pro-abort public sector unions in Wisconsin and their unlimited entitlement to bargain for benefits that are bankrupting the state.  And of course they support taxpayer funded abortions of Obamacare.