TO SUCCEED IN LIFE, YOU NEED THREE THINGS: A WISHBONE, A BACKBONE AND A FUNNYBONE. - REBA MCENTIRE
Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood working to get out the vote
Bam's Blog Oct 8, 2008
Female country music stars Reba McEntire, Martina McBride and Taylor Swift will appear on the November cover of Redbook and appear in Lifetime Television public service announcements to encourage millions of women to vote.
The cover feature and PSAs, titled “Vote (For Your) Country,” are part of Lifetime’s and Redbook’s nonpartisan, yearlong Every Woman Counts campaign to empower and engage women in the political process as voters and future candidates, according to a news release. The stars won’t be touting their party affiliations, just working to encourage voting.
“Who better to represent the heart of America at election time than country stars?” said Redbook Editor-in-Chief Stacy Morrison in the release. ”Redbook readers have always been huge country fans and so we are thrilled to partner with Lifetime Television in this latest expression of our Every Woman Counts/What We Share campaign, which has been wildly successful in motivating women to speak up and talk about what matters most for our country in politics.”
Meredith Wagner, executive vice president of public affairs for Lifetime said the netowrk is particularly pleased to partner with McEntire, who was born in McAlester and raised in Chockie.
“We are thrilled to work with Reba, the queen of country and star of our hit series, and so many other passionate and talented artists. Thirty-five million eligible women did not vote in 2004. With these powerful and respected country voices and with Lifetime and Redbook teaming up to amplify them, we can and will change this statistic and get millions more women to make their voices heard.”
McEntire said in the release, “There are people in foreign countries who stand in line all day just to be able to vote, and when people here take it for granted, I think it’s a shame. If you have a gripe, you have the right to voice it and try to fix it by voting.”
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Country star REBA MCENTIRE has weighed in against the DIXIE CHICKS again, after they criticised fans of her music. The pair first came to blows after the group criticised US President GEORGE W BUSH’s - a close friend of Republican MCEntire - decision to go to war in Iraq. Although they later apologised, singer MARTIE MAGUIRE recently took back the apology and claimed the furore had helped them connect with their audience, adding an attack on MCEntire: "I’d rather have a small following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc (CD) changer with Reba MCEntire and Toby Keith. We don’t want those kind of fans. They limit what you can do." MCEntire is furious. She’s quoted in the New York Daily News, saying, "(I’m) very disappointed. I’ve never turned my back on country music. "So when somebody talks bad about my music, my family, that does not set well with me. And when you bite the hand that feeds you, I just don’t think that’s very nice."
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