Politics: 2000 Dollars
Norquist, Grover G.
POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist 2000 Dollars I t's rare these days to see GOP incumbents campaigning only for themselves. In 1994, after then—Republican whip Newt Gingrich announced that members...
...I ndividual party building is now increasingly complemented by ever more groups from the Republican coalition...
...While gun control advocates take comfort in claiming two successes, Carolyn McCarthy won largely because her opponent, Dan Frisa, was nowhere to be found in the last month of his campaign...
...In addition to traveling with the campaign, Bill attended a fundraiser for Kansan Sam Brownback, who was elected to Bob Dole's old Senate seat...
...According to the memo, he traveled to forty states, spoke at more than 43o events, gave 760 media interviews, and campaigned on behalf of at least thirteen Senate, forty-five House, and eight gubernatorial candidates, as well as a slew of local office-seekers...
...His Republican replacement is both pro-gun and pro-taxpayer...
...The Madison Project, a campaign bundling operation patterned on the pro-abortion Emily's List and run by national home-school leader Mike Farris, raised and gave more than $335,000 to seventeen House and Senate campaigns...
...In the Senate, which is slowly coming on board, Majority Leader Trent Lott's New Republican Majority Fund PAC contributed $619,000...
...NFIB was active in 280 House, Senate, and gubernatorial races, running radio ads in 76 districts...
...Bill Bennett served as national vice-chairman of the Dole campaign...
...Its "Safe Trusts" PAC raised $1 million, a 6o percent increase in two years...
...Colin Powell, once touted by the establishment as a presidential hopeful, attended one fundraiser—for Virginia's John Warner, who defeated conservative challenger Jim Miller...
...Its 263 training seminars trained 15,431 activists...
...In Wisconsin, Tommy Thompson worked for twenty-four state candidates and four House candidates...
...It had a volunteer coordinator in every congressional district...
...75o,000 directly to GOP candidates from his PAC, and raised $2.5 million for Republican candidates and causes...
...The National Right to Life PAC distributed more than 8 million brochures to voters and spent $300,000 on advertising...
...Under new president Jack Faris, the NFIB has greatly increased its political operation...
...Staffers say NAM has never been this active, and they expect NAM to make formal endorsements next time around and possibly form a PAC...
...In 1994, after then—Republican whip Newt Gingrich announced that members who wanted to chair House committees would be judged not only by seniority but by what they'd done to help elect other GOP candidates, Republicans quickly got the message that Newt believed party-building was the key to long-term Republican success...
...I'm so grateful to you for it...
...Its success rate in 1994 was 82 percent...
...The rest of the leadership was not far behind...
...its members made more than 525 campaign visits on behalf of candidates last year, contributed $13.8 million to GOP races, gave $5.7 million to the NRCC for television ads, and raised $7.5 million for other candidates and $4 million for the NRCC...
...Among GOP up-and-comers, David McIntosh contributed $183,000 from both his campaign and his "Faith, Family and Freedom" PAC to House and Senate candidates, while directing $275,000 to Indiana candidates for governor and the state legislature...
...Tom Delay visited sixty-five districts in thirty states, contributed GROVER G. NORQUIST is president of Americans for Tax Reform...
...John Shadegg contributed $4o,000 of his own campaign funds to other candidates and raised another $20,000 in his district for other candidates...
...Republican state chairmen say they're looking for a solid party-building record inpotential presidential candidates for 2000, and a kind of friendly competition has emerged to see who can do the most for the Grand Old Party...
...The NRA was successful in 84 percent of the races it backed...
...The National Rifle Association was active in io,000 races at all levels...
...Counting his direct mail solicitations, phone calls, and events, Gingrich raised $no million for Republican candidates and party organizations in the 1996 election cycle...
...Powell also attended Republicans are racing to raise money for each other...
...1 ing thirty-seven congressional districts, as well as on two million report cards mailed to targeted constituents in forty-four districts...
...In the last two years Bush has brought fifty-five Democratic office holders into the Republican Party...
...It placed op-ed articles in twenty districts...
...Dan Quayle, another possible White House aspirant, traveled to thirty states on behalf of seventy congressional candidates...
...Chamber, along with the National Federation of Independent Business, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Restaurant Association and more than twenty-five business and conservative groups, spearheaded "The Coalition," the business community's flagship answer to the AFL-CIO's new aggressiveness...
...More than ever, Republicans know that party-building is the name of the game—and those who want to be president know they have a great deal of party building to do before they can be named their party's nominee...
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...Chris Cox contributed $69,500 to House candidates and $105,000 to the NRCC...
...Governors did their part...
...Long-time activists continue to do their big part...
...Meanwhile GOPAC, which Shadegg now heads, trained 4,000 candidates for state and local office in 1995-96 and sent out 15,000 training audio tapes every two months to all GOP candidates for federal and state offices...
...Ohio's George Voinovich raised $1 million to stop a gambling initiative, campaigned for five House candidates, and supported three state senate and seven state house candidates...
...I can't tell you how many people stopped me in the street and said, 'I appreciate your stand," said New York Rep...
...George W. Bush raised over $5.1 million for fifty-four GOP candidates and thirty-five Republican organizations, and made at least 125 appearances for GOP candidates...
...Texas Gov...
...Forbes labored hard on behalf of the GOP after he withdrew from the presidential race...
...His leadership committee released a memo the day after election day outlining his efforts for the GOP between July and November 1996...
...His "Monday Morning" PAC gave $1.2 million to candidates directly, while he contributed another $300,000 from his own campaign to the NRCC and a quarter-million dollars to the Republican National Committee...
...60 February 1997 • The American Spectator three Dole/Kemp rallies, and did not campaign for a single House candidate...
...John Engler campaigned for twenty-nine state and federal candidates and held twenty-four fundraisers in Michigan...
...Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum PAC contributed more than $500,000 to House and Senate races, and mailed 102,000 get-out-the-vote letters...
...It now operates thirty-six state PACs...
...It spent $5 million on more than 12,000 TV and radio ads in seventy-one major media outlets, target-44 Republicans say they're looking for a solid partybuilding record in potential presidential candidates for 2000...
...Steve Forbes is well ahead in this competition...
...I got my NRA magazine today and I want you to know I'm voting for you.' One person after another...
...Lamar Alexander contributed $195,000 to 245 federal, state, and local GOP candidates in twenty-four states...
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...The Christian Coalition distributed 46 million voter guides at 125,000 churches in the weeks before the November election, up from 30 million at ioo,000 churches in 1994—this despite labor-backed efforts to prevent such distribution...
...Meanwhile, pro-gun Democrat Harold Volkmer was defeated by his own statement that his constituents should pay higher taxes...
...Majority Leader Dick Armey visited 109 congressional districts in forty-one states and raised $3.1 million, as well as donating $750,000 from his own campaign fund to the NRCC's media efforts and contributing $809,00o from his PAC to House candidates...
...During the 1996 election cycle, Gingrich again led by example...
...My own group, Americans for Tax Reform, mailed 19 million letters and made 4 million phone calls to help counter the labor unions' disinformation campaign on Medicare...
...When the AFL-CIO decided to commit hundreds of millions of dollars to politics last year, it raised the stakes for all political players...
...The Coalition also mailed a million postcards and made 5oo,000 calls to members to increase voter turnout...
...During the first seven months of 1996, before joining the Dole ticket, jack Kemp campaigned in twenty-six states for Republican candidates, appearing at forty-two events and fundraisers...
...Conference chairman John Boehner traveled to sixty-one districts in twenty-two states and raised and contributed $1.6 million for the party and candidates...
...In addition to election coverage in NRA's two magazines that go to its 3 million members, it spent over $9oo,000 on radio ads, mailed four million get-out-the-vote letters, and made dozens of appearances for candidates...
...Sue Kelly, who had opposed the so-called assault-weapons ban...
...The Republican caucus also reflected the new House culture...
...It was wonderful...
...Bennett also campaigned in California on behalf of the California Civil Rights Initiative...
...Anyone will work to become president...
...To combat the Democrats' "Mediscare" campaign, it distributed a 3o-minute videotape in twenty states and gave more than a hundred media interviews...
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...Budget committee chairman John Kasich traveled to fifty districts in thirty-seven states, and raised and contributed more than $1 million...
...Its fifteen campaign appearances with Linda Smith from Washington state probably saved that close race for the GOP...
...He appeared at 107 events, and his Campaign America PAC contributed $1.2 million to zoo candidates and party organizations...
...NAM encouraged all 14,000 of its member companies to thank pro-business members of Congress in letters and ads for supporting lower taxes, less regulation, and legal reform...
...The conservative seniors group, 6o-Plus, issued 288 endorsement letters for House and Senate GOP incumbents and 6o challengers...
...Kelly won by io,000 votes after direct mail, phone calls, and a personal visit to the district by NRA leader Tanya Metaksa...
...Schlafly personally raised $ioo,000 for candidates...
...The National Taxpayers Union bought $15o,000 of highly effective issue advocacy ads and distributed more than 5o0,000 voter guides in fifteen key congressionaldistricts...
...Chamber of Commerce made 324 political endorsements, ran direct mail campaigns to their membership in 155 congressional districts, organized 76 meet-and-greet events for candidates in Washington, and held 68 press conferences in key districts highlighting their endorsements...
...Florida's Jeb Bush, the likely Republican candidate for governor in 1998, helped campaign for forty statewide candidates...
...Bill Archer, for instance, who raised $5oo,000 for other Republican House candidates in 1994, was rewarded with the chair of Ways and Means...
...He traveled to 134 congressional districts and raised more than $10 million for House GOP candidates...
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