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...Maryland Democrat Paul Sarbanes is tops on NCPAC's list. Since April of 1981--when its pollsters detected some anti-Sarbanes sentiment in Maryland--NCPAC has been airing TV and radio ads reviling the first-termer as a do-nothing who loves to bus little children and fritter away tax money. Never mind that the iconoclastic Sarbanes has voted against busing legislation 29 times, or that he voted against the recent Reagan tax increases; the Senator, says NCPAC's Joe Stephen, is "a liberal in everything he does...
BEFORE 1980, a "hit list" was something only rival Mafia families worried about. But when the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) adapted the concept to U.S. Senate races by targeting liberal Democrats for an onslaught of negative media advertising, "hit list" joined the American political lexicon for good. And the committee's sharpshooters hit their marks with stunning accuracy--NCPAC-backed conservatives handily defeated progressive stalwarts like George McGovern, Frank Church and Birch Bayh. The chilling words of NCPAC chief Terry Dolan--"we want people to hate Birch Bayh without even knowing why"--conveyed an unmistakable message to jittery...
...already cost NCPAC $500,000 to air its tale of Sarbanes depradation, and the group expects to spend another $50,000 before November. Only in the last two weeks, however, has NCPAC actually been supporting anyone for Senator: Republican Larry Hogan, a former congressman and currently a County Executive in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Stephan claims that NCPAC took the unprecedented and--because of the organization's officially non-partisan status--possibly illegal step of endorsing Hogan because he was unknown in such of the state. Stephen denies that the move had anything to do with a September...
...part, Hogan has been awfully quick to accept NCPAC a support. "We don't mind anybody Laying nice things about him," a campaign side told the Washington Post. Once a moderate who acted to impeach Richard Nixon, Hogan now echoes NCPAC's calls for massive tax cuts, school prayer, and a beefed-up defense establishment. And Hogan is taking his born-again Reaganism on the road, telling well-heeled Western PAC-men like Justin Dart, Joseph Coors, and H.L. Hunt that the only way to "get" Paul Sarbanes is to bankroll his effort...
Although Weicker will have to renew his struggle to rally the irascible Connecticut Republican party behing his re-election bid he will probably overcome the sniping from the right generated by NCPAC. Confident that the Republican party will be forced to renounce Terry Dolan, Weicker says he is "proud to be a number one on that guy's hit list--wouldn't have it any other way." He predicts that even conservative candidates will disown Dolan--as several did in 1980--in an effort to maintain GOP unity. Raising his voice with characteristic emotion, Weicker has his own view...