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...different type of political influence develops when an ideological PAC targets a race. NCPAC, for example, is notorious for mounting negative campaigns against candidates it hopes to see defeated. In these races, NCPAC rarely makes direct contributions to a candidate, and thus can spend as much as it wishes. (In 1976 the Supreme Court ruled that parts of the federal election law violated the right of free speech. It said that candidates may personally use as much of their own money as they want, and that unaffiliated groups, like NCPAC, can spend unlimited amounts on their own advocacy campaigns...
Liberal groups have responded to NCPAC and other right-wing organizations by forming PACs of their own. Among the new groups is Progressive PAC (ProPAC), which will spend $150,000 in this election, most of it having gone into now abandoned negative campaigns against conservatives. Another is Democrats for the '80s (nicknamed PamPAC for Founder Pamela Harriman), which is spending $500,000. One of the richest ideological PACs is that of the National Organization for Women, which hopes to donate more than $2 million this year to candidates who support its feminist positions and who oppose Reaganomics. Says newly...
...used to be the most feared of all PACs. The National Conservative PAC (NCPAC), known as "Nickpac," mounted a series of harsh negative advertising campaigns in 1980 that it insists were responsible for defeating Democratic Senators George McGovern of South Dakota, Frank Church of Idaho, Birch Bayh of Indiana and John Culver of Iowa. In the heady aftermath, NCPAC grandly announced that it planned to shoot down 20 more liberal Senators in 1982. But NCPAC's aim has proved less deadly than thought, and its guns are beginning to backfire. NCPAC is now heavily involved in only five Senate...
Maryland Democratic Senator Paul Sarbanes, who is on the receiving end of a $650,000 NCPAC attack, has made the organization's tactics a major issue in the campaign. His success in running against NCPAC has frustrated his real opponent, Republican Lawrence Hogan. In a televised debate last week, after Sarbanes again tried to hang NCPAC around Hogan's neck, Hogan threw up his arms and declared: "I hereby denounce NCPAC!" Says Hogan's campaign manager, George Nesterczuk: "They've certainly provided Sarbanes with a convenient issue...
...million NCPAC will raise for 1982, $4 million will go for negative propaganda unauthorized by any candidate, $1.5 million will be donated directly to candidates, and the rest will go for maintaining its expensive direct-mail lists and other administrative costs. A similar PAC, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms' Congressional Club, will raise another $10 million...