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...Haley Barbour was worried, and he sounded the alarm. The chairman of the Republican Party knew that organized labor was about to launch the most audacious, best-financed attack his party had ever endured. So two Fridays ago, he brought together a dozen of his party's most powerful leaders. The meeting, in a glass-lined conference room in Republican headquarters on Capitol Hill, included top people from the Christian right, the pro-life movement, Big Business and small business. Barbour told the group that he thought the AFL-CIO's campaign on behalf of the Democrats would be worth...
...notion of Big Labor as a potent force might seem like a relic from the days of sock hops and soda shops. But Barbour and the Republicans were stirred up for good reason. The 13 million-member AFL-CIO tossed the President an early endorsement and backed it up with a special assessment of union dues to bankroll a blitz of saturation advertising, computer-assisted organizing and massive telemarketing. The enterprise amounts to an all-out war by organized labor to turn back the Republican tide of 1994. John Sweeney, the AFL-CIO's new rabble-rousing president, told TIME...
However, Dole can now count on a little help from his friends, as well as his erstwhile enemies. By Friday, Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour was not just hinting but boasting that he was ready to help the presumptive nominee by underwriting parts of his campaign. As soon as it is feasible, campaign manager Reed hopes to transfer much of the opposition research and field organization to the Republican National Committee, and throw in some Dole travel expenses too. The goal is to preserve what remains of Dole's $7 million war chest for the California contest...
...HALEY BARBOUR Party chair who calls G.O.P. a "big tent" fears Buchanan schism will turn it into a sideshow...
With the Big Tent collapsing on their heads--and in the week of Ronald Reagan's 85th birthday, no less--Gingrich and party chairman Haley Barbour were struggling to come up with a story that could paper over this growing gulf and restore a broad theme to their election-year drive. Their best effort: an argument that what their party stands for is major tax reform. Both went out of their way to emphasize that the flat tax is only one of several proposals for overhauling the hated federal tax system...