In 1972 Jesse Helms won his Senate seat with money from conservative
financiers. He and his old friend Thomas F. Ellis put together a national
political money machine, one of the most effective ever seen on the Right.
Called the Congressional Club, it funded candidates and solicited support
on favorite issues through direct-mail campaigns. Some of its affiliates
included Jefferson Marketing and Hardison Corporation (for-profit companies
to handle logistics), and non-profit institutes such as the Coalition for
Freedom, the Institute of American Relations and its Foreign Affairs Council,
the American Family Institute, the Center for a Free Society, and the
Institute on Money and Inflation. Helms came into his own during the Reagan
years, when ideological conservatism enjoyed a resurgence at the same time
that many fundamentalist Christians with homespun values felt under siege.
In the Senate, Helms is mainly a maverick "spoiler," who uses his seniority
to gum up the works in one area until he gets what he wants in another.
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