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...Republican National Convention this summer in Dallas, National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) Chairman Terry Dolan announced plans one morning for a fund-raiser to be held at the ranch of multibillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. Included in the press packet was a "Statement of Principle," which read in part: "We believe that if one is indeed hungry, there is always honorable work. We believe that aid should be forthcoming to the truly troubled, by a body most likely to know him by name...
...NCPAC could easily be dismissed as merely one more selfish, extremist, right-wing group. After all, it is. But last year, this selfish, extremist, right-wing group managed to raise about $15 million from Americans all over the country...
...wary alliance with the crusaders and polemicists of the New Right. These include Richard Viguerie, the guru of direct-mail fund raising and publisher of Conservative Digest, Paul Weyrich of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, and Terry Dolan of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). Their avatar is Senator Helms of North Carolina. But one of the New Right leaders concedes, "We could go with Jack Kemp. We like him. But we still have to see whether he has the guts...
What's more, Reagan will be helped significantly by a host of independent spending campaigns by conservative groups around the country. Campaign laws have allowed groups like the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) to spend as much money as they like in support of a candidates as long as they are not in cahoots with the regular campaign, NCPAC, for instance has budgeted $2 million for an independent campaign for Reagan as well as a $2 million campaign "to expose the liberal voting record of Walter F. Mondale," says NCPAC spokesman Craig Shirley. While some observers believe the negative...
...senatorial races this fall, the one in Maryland was supposed to be a special New Right showcase. Attacks on one-term Democratic Incumbent Paul Sarbanes would, NCPAC hoped, push malingering liberals in neighboring Washington onto the path of conservative righteousness. Said Dolan: "When members of Congress drove home, we wanted them to hear an advertisement against Paul Sarbanes saying he was anti-Reagan and should be defeated. We wanted them to see the television ads and have them say, 'It isn't going to take much for them to go after me for the same reason.' " Instead...