Word: reed
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...Angeles -- because Brown didn't want to let "Hymie boys" from L.A. push him around. It was the kind of gaffe that might have paralyzed a fledgling presidential campaign. But at Dole headquarters in Washington, no one came unhinged. Instead, sources told Time, campaign manager Scott Reed telephoned Rollins last Monday and asked him to step down. Ed Rollins no longer works for the Dole campaign. Simple as that...
Other conservatives play down the importance of Reed. Says Gary Bauer, a former Dobson associate and now head of the Family Research Council, a conservative think tank: "I don't think the movement depends on Bauer or Dobson or Reed or any of the names the press focuses on. I see this as a permanent force in American government and politics, and I think it will have a lot to say about public policy for the foreseeable future...
...moment, however, Reed is the most attractive name attached to the movement-and he shows no sign of resting. "You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part." He speaks about forming a cadre of at least 10 workers in each of the roughly 175,000 political precincts in the U.S., raising his budget to between $50 million and $100 million and gaining access to 100,000 churches, compared with his current reach of 60,000 churches...
...Christians are close to winning the whole war; they might do it by '96," says Frank Luntz, the pollster behind the Contract with America. "By playing hardball they may win everything, but hardball also risks losing everything." Reed frankly admits, "We're on the very threshold of having to make that kind of decision. It's fraught with both opportunity and hazard. If we make this decision the wrong way, 20 years from now we're going to look back and regret...
...Whatever Reed decides-to press for control of the Republican Party now or to rise above partisanship for a while-the religious right is moving toward center stage in American secular life. Henceforth, Reed told Time, "issues are going to have a moral quotient." The Christian Coalition, says Arthur Kropp of People for the American Way, "won't be content to be background music." They will want the oomph of the big band. And a choirboy will lead them. --With reporting by Laurence I. Barrett, traveling with Ralph Reed, and Richard N. Ostling/New York