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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand TM August 19, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 7 X The Rockefeller-finance- d National Committee for an Effective Congress is a political front for the Far Left which has helped to buy the seats of 200 Members of the current Congress and will spend lavishly to capture 70 House seats and 10 Senate seats in 1976. Its records show sitting Congressmen on the payroll. for you since 1948. It has always operated as a clearinghouse wherein funds from wealthy radicals, mainly allowance, but that wont matter, as long as they vote the way they are supposed to. And that includes being in the New York area, could be against military spending, bematched up with candidates willing cause Well, not just because, to sell out their constituents in adMiss Blue Jeans does cite Mo Udall vance. and her own intuition as the basis of Maurice Rosenblatt, who was a her opinion that the Russians dont Zionist lobbyist in 1948, saw an ophave a strategic bomber. Which of new a for rather takes the cake for arrogant political type portunity powerhouse as he watched Leftist ignorance, though in view of the Red would-b- e Chinese poster on the wall it may Congressmen from Consersneak of the country vative areas up have been arrogant contempt. to New York to sniff and1 whine Ninety Five percent of the time, around Bernard Baruch and his Wall the candidates come to us, our inStreet friends, ready to do anything formant yawned. We dont lobby for the financial backing that could them afterwards, she claimed, sayin and fame fortune to them propel ing that was the function of ComWashington. Rosenblatt saw the mon Cause and C.O.P.E. and Amerproblem at a glance. The Wall Street icans for Democratic Action (now internationalists wanted and needed headed by Senator George McGovern). Were a campaign organizpeople in Congress who could look and sound like good old local boys at ation; by not lobbying we show how election time, but who once in office much faith we have in the candiwould see things New Yorks way. On dates we have selected . So that is how low our representathe other hand, they had more pressing business than auditioning hicks tive government has fallen! You, the for political talent and pliability. voters, may have voted for one or the The money was no problem. Dont other candidate, but the candidate was perhaps selected for you, forget, some of these people create bemoney, and Baruch himself had groomed and propelled by slick come extremely wealthy by having Washington pros on behalf of rich thoughtfully accumulated titular donors who know what they want in the way of Congressmen from your of all sovereignty over the silver on Gods earth, just before District, and are more than willing to his friend, President Franklin D. buy it. Some of these bought CongressRoosevelt, thoughtfully set a new, high price oil silver to help the silver men even give testimonials. Memminers. bers of Congress are actually willing So auditioning the hicks for talent to grin into the fund-raisecamera and pliability, if not ideological conand say: I got my job through formity, became the function of the N.C.E.C. rather than through the National Committee for an Effecdumb voters at home. For instance, tive Congress. The future Members before the last election, Representaof Congress did not have to be comtive Bill Scherle was tarYork or or Socialists mitted Communists geted by New money in retaliawould be like better for Conservative that. his tion It anything voting recif they were not, since the danger of ord. So, according to N.C.E.C.s own disaster through exposure was real in literature, Joe Rothstein designed a those days. The main thing is that communications plan for Tom Harkin to get massive early visibility they would be sufficiently unprinby New York TV in cipled to support what the New York with paid and numerous free financiers, wanted over what their of questioning media and methods that they constituents wanted, would be politically talented enough whether Bill Scherles record represented the people. Bob Squier took to survive at the polls afterwards. From the beginning, the function over and . . . N.C.E.C. urged the of outfits like N.C.E.C. has been to campaign to build everything around change the entire complexion of the work day theme: In that ploy, Congress by choosing the candidates cameras followed the candidate as he in advance, on behalf of the radicals pretended to be a foundry worker or of the Eastern Establishment and . hog farmer or housewife. N.C.E.C. Big Labor, who would then provide timebuyer Jan Ziska used limited funds to strategically target the imthem with what they needed. It gives you a different view of pact of paid air time. The result was that the pros from Congressmen to walk into N.C.E.C. headquarters in Washington, as your New York and Washington dumped reporter did recently, and hear some Representative Scherle out of his d girl sitting by a wall seat for not voting their way, and decorated with a poster for the replaced him with someone who could Peoples Republic of China Perform- never have made it on his own ing Arts Troupe talk about them. according to N.C.E.C. itself. Would-b- e With the slogan A Michigan voice Members of Congress? Well, we have them come in for an in Washington, not a Washington interview, she told us casually. They voice in Michigan on their lips, are checked out on the issues they N.C.E.C. staffers Squier, Rothstein, have to be against defense spendand Brunell flew into Saginaw from ing, for instance, and must generWashington, D.C. , to saturate the folks in the Eighth Congressional ally meet N.C.E.C. standards of how the country should go eviDistrict with propaganda for Bob Trailer. Money was no object, since dently down, to judge from the record of N.C.E.C.s captive RepresenTraxler had received nearly ninety tatives. Then, said Miss Blue Jeans, thousand dollars from Big Labor we assess their needs. which could pay for the N.C.E.C. Theyre often trouble-shooterwide-eyes from Washington but were all very experienced here. She mentioned their and buy them everything they Campaign Services Project. Its needed. This was a special election, wasteful to give them money, taking place the day after Blue N.C.E.C. had decided, since their Monday, April 15, 1974, so the big wide-eye- d candidates didnt know spenders focused everything around how to spend it, so its better to give income-ta- x all the Films, TV day them services. and radio spots, and newspaper ads Marvelous the N.C.E.C. is which the boys from Washington choosing wide-eye- d Congressmen could buy Continued on page 11 for us it knows can't even handle an. .... -- Harrison Williams Jersey Democrat Bought for $153(466 New John Tunnay California Democrat Vance Hartka Bought for $105,840 Bought for $93,531 Indiana Democrat Some of 50 Senators bought by Big Labor one-sixteen- Walter Mondale Minnesota Democrat Bought for Declared 1974 cash payoffs only. See Congressional Record, February 21, 1976. $55,025 th rs (R.-Iow- Frank Moss Utah Democrat Hubert Humphrey Minnasota Democrat Bought for $46,381 mid-Septemb- Gale McGee Wyoming Democrat Bought for $44,940 All of Quentin Burdick Democrat North Dakota Bought for $44,781 these Senators face doubt a serene confidence prevails that the law will be waived, as usual, in the face of force majeure. After all, the new guardian of the Federal Election Compurity mission just happens to have recruited its membership from the above organizations. Election Commissioner Tom Harris, for instance, is late of C.O.P.E., while his administrative assistant, Susan King, was until recently the Washington Direc- tor of the National Committee for an Effective Congress. Fine guardians! An unlikely duo, Senator James Buckley York) and former Senator Eugene McCarthy, took to the courts in outrage at what ap(R.-Ne- w peared to them to be gross violations of everybodys constitutional rights in those stringent new limitations on political activity by individuals. The result was a rather diddly compromise out of the Supreme Court, designed to save the law without leaving a total constitutional wreckage in its wake. So now, in the guise of reform, Big Brother has his feet planted firmly in the electoral process. Subsidies and regulations lead straight down the garden path even re-elect- ion Maine Democrat Bought for $39,350 this year. when intentions are relatively pure; when they are coupled with election commissioners and staff drawn from rabidly partisan political organizations, and combined with an refusal to take on d the most massive violators of exista lot of ing law, then it can be called one of things, but reform isnt across-the-boar- spending limits are now predid on a few pennies per person of Dis- ng age in the Congressional eight cents, t or state. Pennies Ive cents. The tally of just Big ors cash handouts to buy an ska Senator in 1974 was about two dred thousand dollars. Which ks out to two dollars per voter. ce Big Labor is literally untouchon spending as , and will go right whatso- reason looses, we have no : to imagine that income from t source will be frowned upon. object of the exercise is to dry up 1 sources of campaign financing. tat, as we noted at the beginning, job of buying the Congress begins i identifying the reliable product. National Committee for an Ef-ive Congress has been in the busi- i of, choosing your Congressman io i i blue-jeane- d, er a) |