Word: reed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Behind Reed's cool blue eyes is steel. He is no innocent, talking tough politics like the late Lee Atwater, a Republican operative of decidedly secular mien. Last week Time got a close look at Reed and his organization by traveling with him as he moved from Washington to New Hampshire and back. He also provided a rare insider's glimpse at the real source of his clout-the satellite-Internet-and-fax machine juggernaut employed by his soldiers in the field...
...Reed got this far by refocusing the Coalition on more than its basic agenda of support for school prayer and opposition to abortion. It now works hand in hand with the congressional Republican leaders and defines its purpose loosely as "pro-family," which encompasses such mainstream issues as deregulation and welfare reform. Acting then as a team player for the Republican Party, the Coalition poured more than $1 million into the effort to pass the Contract with America, including $250,000 for advertising, direct mail and phone-bank work on behalf of the balanced-budget amendment -- not generally considered...
...real foundations at the grass roots. So other groups were formed to fill the void, including Pat Robertson's Freedom Councils. After Robertson ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President in 1988, he converted his huge mailing lists into the Christian Coalition and turned its operations over to Reed, then 27. Reed sought to build the organization from the bottom up, making it largely community-based, with activists much more involved in local issues. The strategy has paid off. A survey by Campaigns & Elections magazine reported last year that the Christian right exercised considerable control of Republican parties...
...future of America is not [shaped] by who sits in the Oval Office but by who sits in the principal's office," Reed told a group of activists in New Hampshire last week. If the Coalition grows large enough, he advised, "then everyone running for President will be pro-family; they'll have to come to us." And so they have. The latest closed-door meeting of Coalition state directors held in Washington in January drew both Dole and Gramm. Furthermore, Coalition lobbyists sat among the select group of outsiders who met regularly in House Speaker Newt Gingrich's suite...
...Reed gets that kind of respect because he can deliver. With a fat war chest and so many activists on call at all times, the Coalition can stir a flurry of telephone calls and letters to lawmakers on almost any subject within a matter of hours. To train its operatives, the Coalition runs leadership schools, instructing supporters to form rapid-response networks, connected by phone, fax and modem, in hundreds of counties, located in every state in the Union. They update their information on the third Tuesday of every month by attending satellite downlinks of "Christian Coalition Live," an hour...