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RIPON RIPON NATIONAL GOVERNING BOARD MEETING: MAY 12

MAY 1, 1977 VOl. XIII, No.9 50 cents

Commentary: Young Repuhlicons THE TEAM PUTS ON A NEW UNIFORM

Most Republicans would prefer to for­ legal. And there was a precedent for get Watergate. They do not invite Rich­ everything I did. The Democrats did ard Nixon to give them endorsements nor things like this for years and years do they hire persons involved in CREEP's and nobody screamed about it. This is dirty tricks to aid their efforts. Most a double standard. Republicans would go to extreme lengths to disassociate themselves with the 19- In testimony before the Senateis 72 Nixon campaign. Watergate Committee in June, 1973, CREEP's Bart Porter testified: Not so the ruling elite of the Young I paid a hundred dollars, I believe Republican National Federation, known in approximately a hundr~d dollars to recent years as "The Team." They have Mr. Roger Stone on one occasion to chosen as their candidate for YRNF pres­ go to New Hampshire to leave a leaf­ ident, Roger J. Stone, Jr., director of let, I believe at Senator McGovern's administration for the National Conser­ headquarters, and I paid another vative Political Action Committee. At $200 to Mr. Stone, the same Mr. Stone, NCPAC, Stone joined a number of other to go a second time to New Hampshire conservatives prominently engaged in to make a cash contribution to Mc­ the Team in the past and more recently Closkey's campaign. These were all in the Reagan effort. J.David Nickels, at the direction of Mr. Magruder. former executive director of the YRNF, •.• l made total payment of about is a member of the board of directors, $6000 over a 3-month period again to as is Frank Donatelli; executive direc­ Mr. Stone that was passed on to a tor of the Young Americans for Freedom. Mike, I cannot remember his last name Stone was a board member when he was again now, I believe it was McMinaway employed as director of legislative from Louisville, Ky., who worked in services for the Public Service Research Council in 1974-75. Briefly, in 1973-74, Stone was a staff aide to Sen. Robert Dole(R-Kan­ sas). He was until columnist Jack An­ derson revealed that he was the same guy who donated $20,000 of CREEP's money to U.S.Rep. Paul McCloskey's New Hampshire primary campaign in 1972. An­ derson said the money. was-given in the" name of leftist organizations like the Young Marxist League. At. the time, -, Stone said: .. What. I did was not illegal. I was 19 at the time. Remember that. It was a serious error in judgment. I re­ gret it very much and I can assure you that I will weigh very carefully ever­ ything I do in politics in the future. But this whole thing has been blown out of proportion. I did nothing il- two or three of the primary campaigns cludes for co-chairman, Ann Quirk, a mod­ as kind of an eyes and ears and kept era,e conservative 'Ford backer from Texas the campaign, kept Mr. Stone informed and ,current assistant secretary~ for vice of morale and this kind of movement chaift1t1an at large, iMartha McCrery, a YR and that so~t of thing. 1- nati~nal committee~oman from Illinois and Cook County Ford backer; for secretary, Michael W. McMinoway, known to C~EP cheryl Gordon, a re~ional vice chairman as Sedan Chair II, was hired by one' from Utah and Ford ~acker~ for assistant " Jason Ranier" to work as a volunteer' secretary, Linda Reed, a South Carolina in .the Muskie, Humphrey, and McGovern Reagan backer; for Treasurer, Louis Bar­ campaigns in 1972 and provide informa­ nett, a Ca~ifornia Reagan activitist~ and tion on these Democrats to Ranier. ! for ,uditor, Ed Stanley, a Washington . Ranier was identified in the Watergate Reag,n backer. Committee hearings as Roger Stone, i though McMinoway never knew him by that B]ack is confident that the Stone slate name. McMinoway, who said he was intro­ willibe successful,saying,"I don't think duced to Stone by Martin (sic) Black­ ther~'s any question about." Black, NCPAC well, never participated in any active chainman and so Stone's boss, claims back­ sabotage of ~he Democratic campaigns. ing f,rom two-thirds the 824 delegates.

Stone, then head of the Distrist of . Th~ Team ticket is opposed by one Columbia Young Republicans, also recom­ heade~ by KentuckyYR National Committee­ mended the hiring of Theodore F. Brill man R~ch Evans, a 1976 Reagan delegate. as a CREEP spy on radical activists. Dan M~ntz, one of Evans' backers and the Brill, then head of the College Repub­ Maryl~d YR chairman, disputes the long lican organization at George Washing­ lead plaimed for Stone. Mintz thinks ton University, was hired by the CREEP the K~ntucky conservative is running youth division. Ken Rietz, who headed close behind "sure thing" Stone~ that effort, "worked on the Ronald Rea­ I gan presidential campaign last year--­ Ev,ns, a 28-year-old owner of an auto as did Stone, who was Reagan's national dealetship, is older than Stone, now 25. youth director. But b~th are younger than the 35ish lead­ ers the YRNF has chosen in the past. The The Team, according to its former co­ Evans'slate, however, contains what its leader, Charles Black, has been effective­ backe~s feel is a broader cross-section ly disbanded. It broke up, he says, in of moderates and conservatives than does the aftermath of the 1975 Young Republi­ the team ticket. It includes for co­ can National Convention when its leader­ chai~an, Margie Cook, a Michigan Ford ship split between the Ford and Reagan backer and former YRNF officer; for camps. Black became a regional chairman treasurer, Clay Maitland, a New York for Reagan and Peter MacPherson, the State progressive and former state YR Team's other co-leader, had a similar chairman; for secretary, Alexa Bennett, job for Ford. The Team was a formal a moderate-conservative who is Texas YR management setup which somewhat resembled national committeewoman; and for vice a political party within the YRNF---com­ chairman at large, Mark Abernathy, for­ plete with a regional leadership struc­ mer YR national committeeman from Cali­ ture. Mac~herson and Black, for example, fornia. Still open are the designees controlled microphone access at the 1975 for a~ditor and assistant secretary. convention in Indianapolis from their campaign pdst at the rear of the conven­ Evtns backers hope to block a merger tion hall. of th~ interests of NCPAC and the Young Republicans while promoting a stronger The newlorganization is less formal YR vehicle for party training and growth. and less structured, according to Black. The s~owd6wn will come . .f.nM:emphis June It was initially organized in Albuquerque 7-12. after last !year's elections. "Instead of a Team, we have a Stone campaign," says Meclmwhile, Black was the leading Black. But the Team's co-leaders will candi4ate for director of the Republi­ still be calling the shots at the 1977 can National Committee's political di­ convention1in Memphi~, asserts Black, visio~. It would be th~ first real since that is, after all, the efficient "Reag~" appointment on the committee way to run campaigns. since Bill Brock took over as chairman.

I Black' is widely respected by both con­ The Sto~e slate has brought regionar serva,tives and moderates as a cool pro­ and geograrhical distribution. It in- fessional who elicits personal respect •• r I ------I - I , ~ T T COlDDlenlary: EI ecloral College 'IN DEFENSE OF AN IMPERi'ECT COLLEGE , by M1cnae1 C. Ma bach.

The Electoral Co1~ege met December 13, since American presidential elections 1976 to ratify the e~ection of Jimmy Car­ 'are traditionally tight cdntests. ter. As is customa~, Carter's election I has prompted fresh calls for the elimina­ I Imagine a case whe:rle only the tion of the Electoral College. Before it popular vote is counted. 'lIn 1912, is summarily abolished, however, the Eugene Debs, the Socia1istl candidate, Electoral College rates another assess- received 6 percent of the-bopu1ar vote ment of its effectiveness. , and no Electoral College vbtes. It I is ,conceivable that he might have There are two major arguments against under other circumstances baused Wood­ the current system. The first is that row Wilson and Theodore Robsevelt to the Electoral College "has permitted, the tie with 47 percent of thel popular election of three Pre~idents who trailed vote. Perhaps only 58,0001 votes sep­ their opponents in the nation's popular arated the two men and thel loser le­ vote (John Quincy Adams in 1824, Ruther­ gally demanded and receive~ a national ford B. Hayes in 1876, and Benjamin Har­ recount. Even excepting the possibi1i­ rison in 1888). Such results are con­ tyof corruption and lost ballots, the sidered unacceptable in our democratic_ redount process in all 48 states would republic. have taken days and even then perhaps never satisfactorily been tesolved. Second, the f~es of the Electoral Col­ The Electoral College sys·t¢m has rare­ lege argue that 'it unfairly cancels out ly,given rise to request alrecount in the votes in each stat~ that are not cast eVjn one state because suc~ an action for that state's presi~entia1 winner. It wo ld seldom have made any I difference in might argued that if the second place th final results. (The decisions by candidate receives 45 percent of the pop­ tw Repub1icans---Richard Nixon in Illi­ ular vote in Illinois, then that candi­ nois in 1960 and Gerald Ford in Hawaii date should receive 45 percent of our and Ohio in 1976---are of dourse signi- 26 electoral votes. The winner-take-a11 fidant exceptions.) I provision is also considered undemoqratic. I I

i If a plurality is unacceptable, The best way to consider the would a runoff then be necessary with merits of the Electoral College is all! its contingent problems and expenses. perhaps to consider the consequences Imagine the chaos that: might have of abolishing it. Withbut the Elec­ had Lincoln's 1960 ei1ection been toral College, for exam~le, how would en~ued the winner of a presidential election referred instead to a runoff while the be determined? The can4idate who nation headed toward a civil war. That received over 50 percent of the vote e1~ction is a perfect example of the might be declared the winner, but be~eficia1 effects of the Electoral Col­ that would create a whole new set of lege. In a sense, it creates a majority problems. Very often, np single can­ fo~ each President regardless of his dida te receives a maj ori ty of the ! margin of victory. The systems lends vote. In the 49 presidential e1ec- i an aura of victory to the election of tions since 1789, 15 "wirmers" failed even a candidate with 39.8 percent of to received the magic 50 'percent. the vote---such as Lincoln. It 1egiti Abraham Lincoln received 'only 39.8 , mizes the winner's mandate no matter how percent of the popular vdte in 1860;1 c1o~e the election. Without the Klec­ Woodrow Wilson, 41. 8 in 1',912; Harry to~al College, the people in 1860 might Truman, 49.6 in 1948; and' John F. Ken­ have dwelled on the fact that six of eve'ry ten Americans did not vote for nedy, 49.7 in 1960. Thes~ men did, however, assume the presidency because Lincoln. Lincoln fashioned his victory all of them received a majority of the in 'the Electoral College, receiving Electoral College vote. 18~ votes compared to 72 for his c1os­ es~ rival, John Breckinridge. ! Critics of the Electoral College must first ask themselves: if 50 per­ The second criticism of the Elec­ cent is not practical, what percentage toral College is that it ignores the of the vote would be an acceptable de­ losing votes in each state. Yet, with­ terminant---45 percent? 40 percent? out the Electoral College, the same Any. plurality? An acceptable answer phenomenon would be observed on a na­ tional scale. If the second place can­ will be difficult to find, especi~lly didate received 45 percent of the na- tional vote, is it any less "unfair" to College brought balance and mod~ration discount those votes in declaring the to the election results, as well as a man with 55 percent the winner. Wheth­ clear victor, Woodrow Wilson. er on statewide or national scale, it is still the concept of majority rule The Electoral College holds certain at work. Every election is won by the problems for our political system. So person with the most votes without any do the alternatives. The Electoral Col­ concrete return to those who voted in lege has served the nation well. Only the minority. eight electors have not followed the wishes of the people of their states. If the Electoral College were abol­ That is only eight of 16,168 cast since ished, it would be a blow against our 1820. And those eight never changed federal system. Our whole legal and the election results. political system rests upon the idea of a nation composed of 50 socio-political Our Constitution is the world's old­ communities called "states." Our 50 est and most successful written politi­ political communities, under the Elec­ cal document. We have chosen to amend· toral College plan, vote for the Presi­ it only 26 times in 200 years. The Elec­ dent, community by community. toral College is an important part of that document. As Alexander Hamilton The Founding Fathers built a remark­ said of the Constitution," ••• if the man­ able and successful national government ner of it be not perfect, it is at least with three distinct branches. One, the excellent." • Congress, is elected directly by the people. The second, the President, is Contributor Note: Michael Maibach was elected by the people, state by state. an alternate delegate to the 1976 Repub­ The third, the Supreme Court, is ap­ lican National Convention and is a mem­ pointed jointly by the two other branches. ber of the Ripon Society's National Gov­ Because of their separate and distinct erning Board. As in all signed commen­ forms of selection from the same consti­ tary articles, the views expressed are tu.ency, the three branches offer real those of the author. balance and creative diversity found in no other government in the world. Ripon: Update The abolition of the Electoral Col­ lege would put that great federal idea into question. It would undermine the I CUBA Writing radio commen- role of our two-party system, which taries is a tough life. You have to be rests on the strengths of 50 individual constantly alert for potential subject state parties. Without the electoral matter in the most unlikely places. In vote scheme, presidential candidates a syndicated broadcast in April, it was would not campaign to win the votes of reported, for example: states as units. Rather~ they would, Last October the Castro regime in Cuba more so than today, concentrate their invited seven members of the Ripon Soci­ efforts in urban, industrial regions. ety to tour their country. Now, the Rip­ on Society is a liberal Republican organ­ Finally,the Electoral College en­ ization whose membership might be a lit­ sures a truly national campaign. Region­ tle less skeptical of the glories of Cas­ al and extremist parties cannot win nor troism than the ordinary Republican---or make much impact unless they campaign at least that's what the Cuban government across the entire nation. The Founding must have thought. And, frankly it's Fathers gave thought to the possibility what I would have thought. I'm delighted that one large state, region, or group to find I was wrong. The report of the might control the Presidency. The Elec­ Ripon excursion has appeared, authored by toral College reduces that change by Richard W. Rahn, and I'm afraid the Cuban spreading the electoral votes out more have discovered their pesos were misspent evenly among the states and regions. For The Ripon visitors were, to be sure, ap­ example, Eugene Debs received 900,000 preciative of the hospitality shown them. votes in 1912. Although that is six But their reports of life in this social­ percent of the votes cast that year, he ist paradise are not very flattering for received no electoral votes because his Castro's image. support was not sufficiently broad. And so went Ronald Reagan's commentary. Without the Electoral College his Social­ ist candidacy's six percent could have I RONALD REAGAN I A series of regional been the deciding factor in a purely meetings convened this past winter have popular election. Instead, the Electoral kept the Reagan presidential operation r

1n action, according to the Los Angeles scenario, Ford's most useful role Times' Richard Bergholz. The meetings would be outside the race, assisting have been only tangentially connected the stropqest moderate to emerge. The with Citizens for the Republic, the of­ relentless fact is tha£ a new genera­ ficial offspring of Reagan's presiden­ tion of Republican leaders has emerged tial drive. Writes Bergholz: and the party needs Ford more as a sym­ All the meetings have this in common. bol of its balance and dignity than as -The participants comprise the heart a candidate." and leadership of former Gov. Ronald Reagan's campaign for President last I NEW HAMPSHIRE I Gov. Meldrim Thomson year. may be trapped. He has been considering -Virtually without exception, they a 1978 campaign against Sen. Thomas Mc­ want him to run again. Intyre(D), but a recent independent poll ~until that happens in 1980, or until shows McIntyre defeating the anti-tax he tells them he won't rUTh' again, governor by a 2-1 margin. Thomson has they all want to keep the Reagan oper­ also talked of running for a fourth ~erm, ation together, working for causes and but the budget crunch that Thomson has candidates they believe to be compati­ so far avoided now appears inevitable. ble with the Reagan campaign." New Hampshire has avoided a broad-based Leaders in the "let's stay together" tax through Yankee penny-pinching and movement include Oklahoma's Clarence sin taxes c~llected from.residents of Warner and Charles Black of the Nation­ neighboring Massachusetts. There is a al Conservative Political Action Commit­ $51 million budget gap this year, how­ tee. ever. Thomson will have a difficult time finessing the next years and.even I RICHARD SCHWEIKER I Pennsylvania's sen­ a more difficult time seeking reelection ior senator has agreed to become a mem­ on a taxes-as-usual platform. If Thom­ ber of the steering committee for Citi­ son does not want to run for the Senate, zens for the Republic. Schweiker was Senate president Alf Jacobson is the quoted in the Philadelphia Observer leading candidate with House Speaker as noting:"I got an invitation to re­ George Roberts the GOP standin for gov- join forces with the governor [Reag~n] ernor. The difficulty in achieving GOP and I accepted. We formed an aSSOC1a­ unity in New Hampshire was reflected re­ tion and friendship back in July that cently by the Concord Monitor's Rod Paul: we both decided to continue ••• To some Wherever moderate Republicans congre­ extent this obviously keeps me active gate these days---at least those who in the national arena with some pretty make state politics a topic of conversa­ good ties. I did make a conservative tion---there is a common lament about link, and I'm going to keep it. I have the future of the party. lots of options in terms of time and I A few of the leaders in the moderate intend to exercise them." and progressive wing want to do some­ thing to improve the state's GOP for­ I GERALD FORD I Alone among the tunes---set goals, consider politics in GOP's Big Four, Nelson Rockefeller has New Hampshire apart from the rule of ruled himself out of elective office. Thomson. Gerald Ford has made it clear that he Others want to plot outright toward considers another campaign for Presi­ Thomson's political demise. dent in 1980 within the realm of poli­ And some-want to do anything that's tical possibility. On a recent swing required to keep Thomson at the helm through the nation's capitol, reports of state party politics, capable of di­ columnist J.F.terHorst, Ford was recting GOP policies along the conser­ "tougher, more assertive, less inter­ vative road he has tread for so many ested in small talk, more in charge of years. himself, and just possibly, his future." Part of the GOP strategy is to encour­ Commenting on the same Washington trip, age U.S.Rep. James Cleveland to become columnist Charles Bartlett wrote: "But, more active in internal GOP affairs. strange to say, there is no sign that the prospects of a Ford candidacy evoke I EQUAL RIGHTS I The recent defeats enthusiasm, even among some Ford loyal­ of the Equal Rights Amendment in Flori­ ists ••• lf Carter stumbles, the 1980 da and North Carolina were encouraged New Hampshire primary could become a by the active lobbying of the Conserva­ cabinet reunion with added starters tive Caucus. Writing on behalf of How­ from the Senate and state houses. The ard Phillips' group, Sen. Orrin Hatch array of moderate talent may threaten (R-Utah) told potential contributors: to split the moderate vote and leave This evil amendment to the U.S.Con­ the prize to a neanderthal. In ~hiR stitution would not only take away the i bas-ic 'Irights and protection women haye in the caucus' bank account to pay the under ~e laws of God and the laws o£ .$37,000-plus that is desperately needed the s tp. tes ••• to make the crucial effort to stop ERA .,~ .i~ will allow federal bureaucrats in Florida. I' t~ enter and dictate areas of your Back in New Hampshire, the Conservative and my personal lives where they Caucus has had its troubles. According have never been able to intrude be-II to the Concord Monitor's Tom Ferriter: fore. Gov. Meldrim Thomson's position as ***** national chairman of the conservative The effort the caucus made to reach I Caucus has brought little: comfort to North Carolina voters wa~ s~ vitally \ conservatives trying to organize the important that Howard Ph~ll~ps was caucus within the borders of New Hamp­ forced to dig into the Caucus' ~ast , shire. financial resources to pay for ~t. t After two years of struggles and in­ And in fact, the Conservative Caucu ternal quarreling, . conservati,ves in the is still facing unpaid bills for ov7r state are no closer to becoming an or­ $20,000 incurred in the North Carol~n ganized political force than they were effort. ' I before the Conservative Caucus was cre­ So there just isn't any money left ated. i I Duly NOled: The' GOP WHERE ARE THE VOTERS COMING FROM?

President Carter's proposal for "inJ In defending the proposed legislation stant voting" on election day has raisJ,d Rhodes says,"After all, we are a minori­ a storm of Republican protest which co~ ty. In order to become a majority we trasts with the relative unity with ' need more Americans to vote---and vote which Republicans have approached most I for our candidates. I know there are issues in lithe new Carter Administrationl, those who say that a majority of the el­ igible voters who stay home I on election The GOP's first months out of nation~ day lean toward the Democratic Party. al power have been marked by restraint But I don't believe it ••• there are mil­ and realism. As the Washington Star's lions of Americans---people who for one James R. Dickenson wrote recently:"Re­ reason or another did ~ot vote in the publican congressmen and senators are last election---who do not approve of now talking about the party getting on the Democrat-run Congress. They should the right side of issues, of presenting be receptive to our case for switching alternatives in ways that will make the control of Congress." middle class working man think the GOP cares about him at least as much as the For such opinions, Rhodes has been Democrats dO." the subject of strong attacks. Five ultraconservative Republican congressmen Rationality has been a mark of the wrote their colleagues to complain: rhetoric and actions of GOP National Aside from the very real possibility Chairman Bill.Brock, Senate Minority of massive voter fraud, the walk-in reg­ Leader Howard Baker, and House MinoritYi istration plan and using tax money to Leader John Rhodes. The three even I finance campaigns are both made to or­ agreed recently to support President I der for labor bosses and organized. union Carter's instant,voter plan that would 1 grouns to use as the final tools in ob­ have allowed citizens to register at th~ literating the Republican Party in the time they vote. Later, Brock and Baker: House and Senate. At the very least, backed away from the plan---which has , we might have expected that our 'lead­ been criticized by former President i ers' would have called an appropriate Gerald Ford and knocked as an invitatioh party meeting to discuss their stand to voter fraud. before it was trumpeted to the press. The five---tJ.S.Reps. John Ashbrook(Ohio), One element is the Big Three' s thin~­ Phil Crane(III.), Steve Syrmns(Idaho), ing, noted the Washington Post's David' Robert Bauman(Md.), and Mickey Edwards Broder was the necessity for the GOP t9 (Okla. ) -~'-exemplify the pr:oblem some take risks if it expects to improve it$ Republicans have in taking the risks standing with the electorate. "I think necessary to expand the party's pitiful­ we [Republicans] have just as good an ly small base. It is a Custer mentality opportuni ty to earn that vote as they i that insists on pulling the wagons into do," cormnented Brock. a circle. Somehow the mentali~y that in- r

sists that businessmen should be trusted the $2 billion worth of aid proviqed in to operate without the interference of the Public Works Employment Act of 1976 the Occupational, Health and SaEety Ad­ (passed by Cong~ess over Presiden~ ministration idoes not see fit to place Ford's veto). By mid-December $'24 similar trust in voters. It is odd. billion worth of applications for pub­ lic works funds had flooded into Wash­ . I. . Th e reg1strat10n quest10n poses a ington. We Republicans are correct in our assertion that the American people problem for ~publican leaders. Their own pollster, Robert Teeter, has told want less government interference. But it would be wrong to believe---or to them that majbr political upheavals build a party around the belief---that are accompli sped not be shifting the al­ this is a rigid sentiment grounded in legiances of new voters but by bringing immutable political dogma. Regarding new blocs of roters into the electorate. unemployment, for example, the Ameri­ Although it if argued that 60 percent of today's no voters are potential Demo­ can people in effect have said,"Public crats, it can be argued that th:i.s bloc works funds? Now that's my kind of in­ is still ripe for GOP conversion---par­ terference. " Even in the good old ticularly in the younger, upwardly mo­ days of the early Republic, citizens bile middle class. looked to their government to help them solve problems. It will~continue to be so. Upon reflection, I think Writing in the Los Angeles Times last our job is to interfere where we can fall, Robert Samuelson noted: . do the most good, and refrain from do­ Fully 40 percent of the voting-age ing so when some other problem-solving popUlation now falls between the ages mechanism is more ~ffective. of 18 and 34. According to a recent survey by the Washington polling firm In a recent speech in Minneapolis, of Hart Research Associates, 46 percent Michigan Gov. William Milliken uttered of the people in that age group'are cur­ similar thoughts: rently nonvoters but that percentage is The fundamental step is to stop a likely to decline. As we age, we per­ moment and look at the world through ceive ourselves as being more responsi­ the eyes of those whose support we ble and having better-defined inter­ are seeking. We must understand their ests. legitimate problems and concerns and It is this predictable change in our address ourselves to those problems self-perceptions, coupled with the con­ and concerns. We must show them that tinuing influence of the baby-boom chil­ we care, not just with a few words, dren, that may be the ultimate guarantor but with our actions. of the GOP's survival." We must look at the world through the eyes of an elderly person whose fixed­ The key for Republicans is to enhance income is steadily being ~roded by __ :he~party's image at the same time it rising prices and taxes. We must see ippeals for these new voter's allegiance. the world through the eyes of the [t has to style itself_as a maverick small businessman caught in the bind ~hampion of the people's interests who of rising costs, lowered Brofits and )we no debts to Big Government, Big unfair taxes. We must lodk through 3usiness or Big Labor. the eyes of a young person with an . .idealistic desire to change the world One of the GOP's problems is to avoid immediately. We must haVe empathy,

:nee-jerk opposition while promoting ois­ not sympathy, for people. I, :inctly Republican policy alternatives. Now, I'm not talking about a cynical louse Republican Conference Chairman exploitation of their needs. I'm not rohn B. Anderson addressed this problem talking about a "me-too" appr09ch to .n an article in the Washington Post ear­ things as· some critics wo-ql.d-l1ave you .ier this year: believe. ,: ••• superficially at least, •• the Amer­ I'm talking about ~ Republican Party ican people want less government, less that is truly open to everyone, a interference in their private lives. Republican Party that encour~ges in­ Yet, a closer examination shows that ternal debate and tries tQ apply our Americans are turning more, not less, traditional commitment to 'individual to their government(at all levels) for freedom and self-help to these prob­ solutions to the problems that frus­ lems. trate them. To wit, unemployment. The American There may still be time for the GOP people and their local leaders can hard­ to heed the advice of Rhodes, Anderson, Iv be said to have turned their backs on and Milliken. But not·much •• --- PoUtics: Wisconsin AFTER THE AMBASSADOR

Republican fortunes in Wisconsin was an organizer of the New Republican have dropped steadily in recent years. Conference, a group of moderate Wis­ Las·t year, the GOP hoped to recapture consin Republicans. Petri, however, two House seats lost in 1974, but both got only 36 percent of the vote against Adolph Gunderson(3rd C.D.) and Harold Sen. Gaylord Ne1son(D) in 1974 and Froeh1ich(8th C.D) failed in their at­ York did even poorer against Sen. Wil­ tempts. The Republicans also lost liam Proxmire in 1976. two seats in the lower house and four in the State Senate to further deplete The state GOP must go on record their minority. this spring whether it will endorse at next year's convention. Petri backs an It is difficult to ascertain wheth­ open primary. A closed system is er the decision of Gov. Patrick J. Lu­ scarcely consistent with Kasten's rec­ cey to accept appointment as ambassa­ ord. Should York and Petri not run dor to Mexico has squelched or opened for governor, they would be attractive a GOP opportunity. One school of candidates for other statewide offices. thought contends that Lucey would have That would be particularly true if, for have been easier to beat than a new example, Attorney General Bronxon La­ candidate such as Lt. Gov. Martin Follette decided to challenge Schreiber Schreiber (D), who will succeed Lucey. for the governorship. . Lucey has increasingly alienated for­ mer supporters during his two terms as In addition to LaFo11ete and Schreib­ governor. He backed a losing transpor­ er, possible Democratic candidates in­ tation referendum in 1976 and has been clude David carley, president of the criticized by organized labor. It was Medical College of Wisconsin, U.S.Rep. not altogether clear that Schreiber Les Aspin,. and Secretary of State Doug­ would not have challenged Lucey in a las LaFollette. All would be formid­ 1978 primary. Another school of guess­ able challengers to Schreiber, who now work maintained that Lucey remained a has a year and a half to demonstrate popular governor whose record and per­ his gubernatorial capabilities •• sonality would be formidable obstacles to a GOP candidate. The frontrunner is U.S. Rep. Robert Ka~ten, a conservative former state sen­ ator who defeated U.S. Rep. Glenn Davis (R) in a 1974 primary. Young and weal­ thy, Kasten has the winning image the GOl' is so desperately search±ng··£or.·_· With Lucey out of the race, Kasten has a chance to pick up the business com­ munity support---and money---that would have been Lucey's property had he stayed in. If Kasten chooses .to run for reel­ ection rather than the governorship, the top two Republican contenders are the party's unsuccessful candidates for the Senate in 1974 and 1976: State Sen. Thomas E. Petri and former state energy director Stanley York. Both are progressives. Petri is a founder of the Ripon Society and York

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