David Kuo Dies at 44, J. David Kuo, an evangelical Christian conservative and former top official of President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiative who attracted wide attention when he accused the administration of failing to live up to the values it espoused, died April 5 in Charlotte. He was 44.
He had brain cancer that was diagnosed a decade ago, his wife, Kimberly, said.
The arc of Mr. Kuo’s life and career had taken him from liberal to conservative, from hard-edged Republican activism in the 1990s to disillusionment with the idea that politics could serve as an extension of his faith.
After leaving his post as deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in 2003, Mr. Kuo became an open critic of that operation. He faulted the administration for failing to supply the office with anywhere near the $8 billion in federal spending that Bush, as a candidate, said would finance “armies of compassion.”
Mr. Kuo’s criticism echoed that of the first director of the office, John J. DiIulio Jr., who resigned in August 2001, only seven months after it was formed.
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He had brain cancer that was diagnosed a decade ago, his wife, Kimberly, said.
The arc of Mr. Kuo’s life and career had taken him from liberal to conservative, from hard-edged Republican activism in the 1990s to disillusionment with the idea that politics could serve as an extension of his faith.
After leaving his post as deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in 2003, Mr. Kuo became an open critic of that operation. He faulted the administration for failing to supply the office with anywhere near the $8 billion in federal spending that Bush, as a candidate, said would finance “armies of compassion.”
Mr. Kuo’s criticism echoed that of the first director of the office, John J. DiIulio Jr., who resigned in August 2001, only seven months after it was formed.
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