Reply #11: Interesting comment...about who Reed says controls things....

[madfloridian]

"The future of America is not shaped by who sits in the Oval Office but by who sits in the principal's office," Reed told a group of activists in New Hampshire last week. If the Coalition grows large enough, he advised, "then everyone running for President will be pro-family; they'll have to come to us." And so they have. The latest closed-door meeting of Coalition state directors held in Washington in January drew both Dole and Gramm. Furthermore, Coalition lobbyists sat among the select group of outsiders who met regularly in House Speaker Newt Gingrich's suite to coordinate the campaign to pass the Contract with America."

Yes, they did go to them on women's rights issues...unfortunately.