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...oppose the NRA's goals and support Bush's resignation from the organization, but I hope they continue to give a voice to those who disagree with me, including the white supremacist separatists. The grass-roots organization the staff disparages is a superb channel for their frustrations. In providing that channel, the NRA serves a very useful purpose. It is ridiculous to condemn the NRA for being successful representatives of its constituency...
...with us, you're against us" attitude has its strongest repercussions in Washington. Local NRA members, the grass-roots companions of the federal lobbyists, lead extensive campaigns against candidates for national office who support gun control. They succeed because they have the money. The NRA contributed to the campaigns of 22 of the 35 winners in last November's elections for U.S. Senate. Of the 87 new House members, 60 received NRA funds...
...bring alienated citizens into mainstream political action. Were we not here, the ranks of the disaffected would be much larger." He adds correctly that the Coalition, despite its conservative agenda, does not coordinate with the National Rifle Association, nor does it lobby on gun issues. Nevertheless, at the grass-roots level, there is a large overlap among Coalition supporters and anti-gun-control activists...
...give the invocation before the senate because he did not want TV cameras to record him in prayer). There are two faces to the religious right, says Michael Hudson, executive director of the liberal People for the American Way, "the moderate face that meets Bob Dole and the grass-roots state chapters that are still bashing gays. Ralph Reed is trying to create a big tent in the religious right, but can he sell political expediency to his grass-roots movement...
Advised mainly by his daughter Claude, 32, Chirac pursued an energetic grass-roots campaign. He crisscrossed the country, shaking hands, kissing babies, meeting local groups and offering somewhat populist programs. He caught up with the more aloof Balladur and passed him, but in a shocking result, Jospin won the first round of the election. Chirac has never been known for his consistency, and having tacked left to defeat Balladur, he nudged more to the right for the final round to woo the Le Pen voters. He began hammering on issues like law- and-order and the fight against the legacy...