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Deception in the name of Christ! [Buchanan supporters]
``` [The received wisdom is that Ralph Reed's work on behalf of Bob Dole in the South Carolina primary greatly increased the Christian Coalition's standing as a broker within the Republican Party. But this was quite a risky move on Reed's part, given that so many people in his organization were working for Pat Buchanan or even Alan Keyes. The Republican Party now consists of two equally powerful factions, a corporate establishment group that controls the national party organization and a Christian Right group that controls most of the state party organizations. Both groups have extensive local organization. The question is whether the leaderships of both groups can keep their organizations in line long enough to take power, or whether factionalism will provide further ammo to Bill Clinton. I give them even odds right now.]
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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 17:52:22 EST From: TDRL77A@prodigy.com (MR KENNETH L LOWNDES) To: ASISTIM@aol.com, lmuller@iquest.com, PAULWTALK@aol.com Subject: Deception in the name of Christ!
The Free Voice Political Action Report
KENNETH L. LOWNDES Telephone 609-667-0396 [Contact Person] Fax 609-486-1405 POST OFFICE BOX 252 BERLIN, NEW JERSEY 08009
E-Mail: TDRL77A@prodigy.com
~Ye Olde Press Release~For Immediate Release
Subject: Baker-Swaggart, Now Robertson-Reed?
THE NEW BLASPHEMY: RIGGING THE ELECTION RESULTS BY FRAUD IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST!
Outraged members of the Christian Coalition are steaming at the abuse of that organization in favor of partisan politics seen as favoring the candidacy of "the cardboard candidate" Bob Dole. Not every rank and file member of the Coalition favors Dole like Ralph Reed and his mentor, Pat Robertson. The much touted Christian Coalition "Voters Guide," which claims Dole has a "100%" pro-life voting record in the Senate has left many members ready to lead a revolt.
"Bob Dole voted for F.A.C.E., he voted for Federal funding of fetal experimentation, he voted to confirm Clintons' US supreme court pro- abortion-to- the-core justices Ginsburg and Breyer. It isn't as if Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed don't know this, they do. The lie they are spreading is a deliberate lie, and in open contradiction of the I.R.S. C-4 classification they choose for the organization. They are deliberately perpetrating a fraud against the Christian voters by wide-spread dissemination of this lie, a calculated effort to illegally assist the Bob Dole for President campaign.
Many Christian voters are busy people like everybody else. If the Christian Coalitions Voters Guide state that Bob Dole has a 100% pro-life voting record, they vote based on that information. This is an outrageous fraud, which undermines and discredits the efforts of the coalition nation-wide to provide reliable information about candidates on major issues." declared Kenneth Lowndes, who still retains the title of Co- Chairman of the Camden County Christian Coalition of New Jersey.
"If Ralph Reed or Pat Robertson wish to support Bob Dole, that is clearly their right to do as individuals. It is clearly their right to do as individuals. It is clearly wrong for them to co-op the use of the Coalitions Voters Guide as a part of their private effort to elect Bob Dole."
Page 2. "Blasphemy" ....continued
"We are sick and tired of seeing the Christian Coalition take up partisan positions and efforts to support any body in the race but a true Christian. Could you imagine a Jewish coalition that every time it had an opportunity to support a Jewish candidate, refused to do so? Or a Black coalition that only backs white candidates, even when there is a Black candidate? This is clearly the pattern of the leadership of the National Office in Virginia of the Coalition. 'Let's take a look at the Christian candidate and find reasons to avoid backing their efforts.' Robertson-Reed clearly have an acquired Christian-candidate inferiority complex they need to work out on their own."
Bob Dole, as decent as he may be, did not discontinue his attendance at the Clinton/Dole Foundry United Methodist Church in WDC, out of a conversion of the heart but after their common affiliation with this "church" gained nationwide publicity. This so-called "church" preaches that the Bible isn't reliable, that homosexuality is good for individuals as well as good for America. Bob Dole may be a nice guy but that is not the Christianity found in the Bible.
Most Christians take the clear truth of the Bible very seriously. These are NOT fringe issues. These things matter. They may not matter all that much to Robertson or Reed but they do to nearly every other member of the Coalition.
"We call upon Robertson and Reed to immediately halt the distribution of the Bob Dole Campaign's alleged Christian Coalition Voter Guides; further, to issue public apologies to individual members of the Coalition who in good faith support good candidates like Pat Buchanan and others, and to make that apology substantial spend twice the amount of the money publishing and distributing these fraudulent voter guides on a radio/tv/newspaper media effort to communicate this apology. This apology campaign must be broadcasted through-out every state where they have attempted to rig the election outcomes with these fraudulent voter guides."
The Coalitions fundraising efforts came from supporters of other candidates across the board. They do not consent to have these funds used to advance one particular candidate; they especially do not consent to deception and lies about pro-life voting records.
Short of that, we call upon all those of good will to begin filing complaints with the Federal Election Commission in Washington, DC, by notarized statements, requesting the appropriate sanctions be applied to Robertson-Reed. Their miss-conduct must be addressed. This type of anti-Christian activity by people in the name of Christ is intolerable and must be stopped by all proper means. It is with great sorrow that this response has been made essential by the activities of these otherwise good men.
--30, end of press release
SPECIAL NOTE: It seems highly unlikely that such blatant support coming from Robertson-Reed comes without the knowing approval of Senator Bob Dole, presenting the additional appearance of collusion. The question that now comes forth is: "What did Bob Dole know, and when did he know it." It is our considered opinion that investigations are now in order.
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