Shore was an aide to Gary Hart in the Senate and in his presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988. Shore was also Bob Kerrey’s chief of staff in the Senate and helped with his losing presidential run in 1992. In 1984, when a brutal famine in Ethiopia was killing hundreds of thousands, he founded Share Our Strength, a hunger relief organisation, with his sister, Debbie Shore. He realised he’d rather help hungry children than politicians hungry for the White House. Hunger, Shore added, “is a solvable problem, relative to so many other things we care about.

Source: The Irish Times December 07, 2025 20:32 UTC