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Institutional
Affiliations
Project
for the New American Century: Signatory
to 2002 letter to President George W. Bush on Israel, Arafat and
the War on Terrorism; Signatory to 2001 letter to Bush on the War
on Terrorism (9), (10)
Of
The People (parental rights organization): Co-founder and
Chairman (1), (2)
Campaign
Finance Institute: Board of Trustees; Member, Task Force
on Financing Presidential Nominations (3), (4)
Foundation
for Community and Faith Centered Enterprise: Research Associate;
also was former lobbyist for the foundation through his Capital
City Partners (1), (5)
American
Conservative Union:
Board of Directors (6)
Council
for National Policy: Former member
Bauer
for President 2000 Campaign: Senior Consultant (3)
Ronald
Reagan Presidential Campaign: Wrote and produced TV commercials,
1980 (1)
Richard
Nixon Presidential Campaign: Campaign Aide (8)
Citizens
For America: Member, emphasis on Tax Reform Act, 1986 (1)
Manhattan
Institute: former President (1)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Capital
City Partners: Principal (1)
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Highlights
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Bell,
the former president of the rightwing Manhattan Institute (called
by one writer a "launch pad for conservative writers"), is a long
time Republican Party operative. He is associated with several rightwing
outfits, including the Project for the New American Century, the
American Conservative Union, and the Council for National Policy.
Bell has twice run for the U.S. Senate, in 1978 and 1982 (he lost
both times), and he worked as a campagin aide to former presidents
Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. (8)
Regarding
Bell's organization Of The People (OTP) and its proposed Parental
Rights Amendment (PRA), People for the American Way opines: "[Greg
Erken, OTP executive director] and Jeffrey Bell -- Of The People
founder and chairman, anti-abortion activist and former strategist
for both President Ronald Reagan and former Congressman (and now
vice presidential candidate) Jack Kemp -- generally stick to their
claim that the PRA is a simple affirmation of parental rights and
responsibilities unconnected to a right-wing agenda. OTP's second
national conference in December 1995, featuring speakers from the
Family Research Council, National Center for Home Education and
the Free Congress Foundation, belied that assertion. OTP's editorial
board includes such notable conservatives as William Kristol, former
Vice President Dan Quayle's chief of staff and editor of the Weekly
Standard , and Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform
and a leader of the effort to 'defund the left.'" (2)
Bell
has written for the New York Times , Washington Post , and The Weekly
Standard . He also wrote a book in 1992 entitled Populism and Elitism:
Politics in the Age of Equality . (1)
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