Reply #67: More on Stone's early days

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http://www.eco.utexas.edu/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/357Lsum_s2_Crawford.html

"The official youth weapon of the GOP is the Young Republican National Federation (YRNF), which is composed of the teenage and College Republicans. The Young Republicans were controlled by the right–wingers as early as the Eisenhower years. YRNF was considered anti-Rockefeller, anti-Eastern and anti-liberal. A young leader of YRNF was recruited by a right-winger (Roger Stone-former NCPAC treasurer) to infiltrate several 1972 Democratic election campaigns.

"This action gave the YRNF a bad name, which a number of its members were distressed about and ready to clear themselves of the Nixon scandal. In 77 Stone and Richard Evans (right-winger from Kentucky) were competing for the chairmanship of the Young Republicans and in spite his involvement in the dirty tricks of the Nixon campaign Stone was able to win. His success can be attributed to the skillful campaigning of his supporters who were able to portray the Young Republicans as an ideological battle and painted Evans as a follower of the Rockerfeller liberal. Stone put into practice a direct-mail fund raising program which successfully increased revenue greatly. The organization became active in other areas and concentrated on training young political leaders. This led to the New Right domination of the 1979 Young Republican Leadership Conference."