Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, January 19, 1995 TAG: 9501190110
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE LENGTH: Short
The organization will wage a 100-day campaign to reach its approximately 1.5 million donors through phone banks, computer bulletin boards, talk radio and direct mail, Reed said Tuesday during a speech at the Economic Club of Detroit.
The conservative group will also support what he called ``mainstream'' Republican ideas: eliminating federal taxes for families earning less than $30,000, downsizing government and reforming welfare to ``shift responsibility to private charities and the faith community,'' Reed said.
In the same speech, Reed called for an end to taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - agencies which he said ``promote values contrary to those that we teach in our homes.''
Reed also condemned recent attacks on abortion clinics in Massachusetts and Virginia. ``Demented and deranged individuals,'' he said, only harm the anti-abortion cause.
He said the coalition, founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson and based in Chesapeake, also wants to make sure taxpayer subsidies are not used for abortions.
by CNB