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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
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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.
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