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...unfortunately for Andrew P. McMahon and Elizabeth J. Robertson, two newly-tenured professors of cellular and developmental biology, the facility should have been completed earlier...
...empowerment politics will remain visible. If Kemp is successful, his "Empowerment" umbrella--the group, its literature, its offshoot satellite series, its adjunct businesses and associated candidates--may achieve a shift in political thought, a reemphasis on the community as the center of political activity. Religious Right groups like Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition have been using the community-based tactic for years. The principle: field grass-roots candidates for local offices, thereby extending the political network before you enter the national arena...
Today Reed strives, by his lights at least, to make politics serve those causes as executive director of Christian Coalition, the advocacy group founded by Pat Robertson four years ago. Reed's organizational and strategic talents have made the coalition the most potent unit within what its leaders call the profamily movement. He is also becoming a prophet and a public promoter of the conservative Christian cause in general. When he experiences an epiphany these days, the event is complex and political rather than religious and personal. His changing visions become the subject of TV schmooze shows and Washington seminars...
Last year the religious right suffered a fiasco because of George Bush's defeat. Robertson and Reed had assumed early on that Bush would narrowly edge out Clinton. Thus, although they had little affection for Bush, they helped check the movement of social conservatives toward Pat Buchanan. Their expectation was that Christian Coalition would get credit, and legitimacy, for securing the critical margin of support. In exchange, Bush's handlers accepted many of Reed's choices for delegates to the convention and allowed the religious right to pack the platform committee. The upshot: Bush seemed a prisoner of his party...
...same cause lured Reed back to politics. In January 1989, when they met for the first time at a Washington banquet, Robertson told Reed of his plans for a new organization. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority was about to collapse. George Bush's accession threatened a return of country-club Republicanism. Reed had supported Jack Kemp rather than Robertson in the 1988 primaries, but no matter. Robertson knew of Reed's religious conversion; Robertson's cable show, The 700 Club, had done a piece on it. He also knew Reed's reputation as a conservative organizer. Reed wrote a memorandum...