Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country," he told them, but he did say he would like to "minimize the requirement for nuclear power" and to shift toward "alternate energy supplies." Criticized Rally Organizer Donald Ross: "We told him he had to take a much more decisive antinuclear position." Translating such views into campaign terms, one Congressman predicted to colleagues in the House cloakroom: "Every one of us who doesn't come out against nuclear energy is going to face at least one candidate in the primaries who will make that his only issue...
...Scientists. The movement affected a wide coalition of national organizations: environmentalists like the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and Mobilization for Survival, antiwar groups like the War Resisters League, consumer groups like Ralph Nader's Public Interest Research Group, and economic activists like Tom Hayden's Campaign for Economic Democracy and William Winpisinger's Machinist's Union. Says Friends of the Earth mid-Atlantic Representative Lorna Salzman: "What we have here is a grass roots movement, one that includes students, farmers, engineers and the middle class." Noticeably lacking, however, have been the poor and minorities...
...ironic that in passing the campaign "reform laws of the 1970s, Congress claimed to be cleaning up politics and removing special interest influence. In some ways, the result has been quite the opposite. With political parties becoming less effective fund raising agents for candidates, and with the $1000 limit on individual contributions, corporate PACs have become a major source of funding in Congressional campaigns. And the room for further growth is tremendous. Two thirds of the 500 largest industrial firms have yet to form a PAC. Business is quickly leaving the once dominant labor union PACs far behind...
...Democratic incumbents as to Republican challengers. Alarmingly large amounts, according to Congressman Abner Mikva (D-Ill.), go to powerful committee chairmen who are in safe districts and don't really need the money. Senator Russell Long (D-La.) has been quoted as saying that "The distinction between a large campaign contribution and a bribe is almost a hairline's difference...
...recent publication, "How Money Talks in Congress," has analyzed FEC records. Some of its findings would surely cause our Founding Fathers to turn over in their graves. For example, from January 1975 through July 1978, the nineteen members of the House Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions received campaign contributions totaling $343,389 from PACs and individuals associated with financial institutions. No one got less than $1,000. Observes Fred Wertheimer, "PAC money is investment money, and you want to make a smart investment...