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If you want to leam more about your place at Teradyne, visit your Career Services Office. An Equal Opportunity Employer Page 10 • The Battalion Thursday • January 19, 1995 Support gathering for new conservative Congress bill WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are assembling a mammoth grassroots lobbying machine to promote their “Con tract With America,” built of con servative interest groups and trade associations that can ener gize supporters on short notice. The informal structure in cludes the Christian Coalition, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several business associations, and it is getting its first test in the fight over a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. The groups have at their disposal computerized databases, fax net works, mailing lists and media outlets that can generate mil lion of calls and messages to Capitol Hill. ‘We are going to make a con certed effort to have our allies who have huge organizations of Ameri cans work with us to pass the con tract,” said Rep. John Boehner, R- Ohio, chairman of the House Re publican Conference. The Republicans hope to create a continuing network that can support conservative issues with out the need to reinvent it each time a close vote looms, said Tony Blankley, spokesman for House Speaker Newt Gingrich. “Generating national support for an issue is like setting up a medium-size company for one sale. It’s a big enterprise, and to be able to generate that again and again is challenging,” he said. A ready-made network “would be an evolutionary advance from where we’ve been.” Boehner has hired Joyce Hamilton, a former lobbyist for the NationaTAmerican Wholesale Grocers Association, to coordinate the outreach effort, which in cludes her former employer. Others who met with Boehner last Thursday in Gingrich’s office suite include: —John Motley, chief lobbyist for the National Federation of In dependent Business, which flexed its grassroots muscle last year in helping kill President Clinton’s health care proposal. The group’s membership includes more than 500,000 small businesses, an av erage of 1,200 in every congres sional district. —Grover Norquist of Ameri cans for Tax Reform, which has 60,000 members nationwide and grassroots links to 1,800 state and local taxpayer groups and another 800 property-rights groups, as well as relationships with conser vative talk show hosts across the country. —Bob Bannister of the 180,000-member National Associ ation of Home Builders, which is particularly interested in the bal anced-budget amendment and the issue of unfunded mandates on the private sector. The group maintains 12,000 “key contacts” across the country, people who have personal relationships with members of Congress. —Alan Kranowitz of the Na tional Association of Wholesaler Distributors, a federation of 115 wholesale trade associations with more than 40,000 members and 150,000 places of business nationwide. —Bruce Josten of the Chamber of Commerce, whose Grassroots Action Information Network is a computerized bank of 40,000 individuals and companies, 2,700 local chambers and 1,200 asso ciations. Also present were represents tives of the Christian Coalition, the National Restaurant Associa tion, the Republican National Committee and the Republican Governors Association. Lobby machine Conservative interest groups in Washington have mobilized a virtual “lobbying machine,” ready to hit Capitol Hill with millions of phone calls, letters and messages. How the network will operate: Republican Governors Assn. National Association of Home Builders The Christian Coalition State chapters Talk radio Americans for Tax Reform 1,800 state tax groups 800 property rights groups National Federation for Independent Business 500,000+ members House Speaker Newt Gingrich “Contract with America " House GOP Conference Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio Joyce Hamilton (former lobbyist) Outreach director National • American Wholesale Grocers Assn. Nc Association Wholesaler- Distributors 40,000 members Republican National Committee U.S. Chamber of Commerce 40,000 companies 1,200 associations :•:? T’’ I National Restaurant Assn. 100,000 members AP Graphic Political biographies really pay off’ WASHINGTON (AP) — For mer House Speaker Jim Wright says his first reaction when he heard Newt Gingrich was of fered $4.5 million for a book deal was “Wow.” Then the sense of irony set in. Of all Democrats, Wright may have the most reason to savor the current speaker’s predicament. The Texas Democrat was dri ven from office in 1989 — ending a 34-year career — because of an ethics probe of his personal fi nances, including a controversial book arrangement. The investigation was spurred and fueled by Gingrich. “The supreme irony is that the speaker has risen to his po sition by criticizing and trying to attack the reputations and characters of others,” Wright said in a telephone interview from Fort Worth, Texas. “In so many instances we find in life that he who poses as a purist and points the finger strongly at others is quite often involved-in the very same en terprise himself,” Wright said. Among other things, Wright was accused by the House Ethics Committee of using bulk sales of his book, “Reflections of a Fhiblic Man,” to evade limits on outside income. Gingrich’s situation involves his relationship, with a publish er owned by communications giant Rupert Murdoch’s compa ny — and Murdoch’s ownership of TV stations with legal cases before the U.S. government. Even though Gingrich gave up the $4.5 million advance from HarperCollins, saying he would take only $1 up front. Democrats have still cried foul and want a special prosecutor. The issue intensified with revelations that before the book deal was concluded Gingrich met with Murdoch and a top lobbyist for his Fox TV hold ings, which are being chal lenged by NBC before the Federal Communications Commission. Wright and Gingrich have not been the only public figures to reap financial benefits from books. It’s a long-established tradition. However, most such books don’t wind up biting their authors. 1948, the government gave a triumphant Gen. Dwight Eisen hower a special tax break for his World War II memoirs, “Crusade in Europe,” for which he was also paid the then- princely sum of $600,000 by publisher Doubleday. 1 ] 1 < < v r li e: BREITLING John D. Huntley, Inc. "Very Persona! Investments" 313B S. 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