Helms Ad Campaign Against Hunt Signals Start of '84 Senate Race (Charlotte Observer)
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June 9, 1983

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Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Working Files - Guinier. Helms Ad Campaign Against Hunt Signals Start of '84 Senate Race (Charlotte Observer), 1983. 08a8fc14-dc92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/2cdcfda8-15a8-4cb3-b332-0e08542ffd44/helms-ad-campaign-against-hunt-signals-start-of-84-senate-race-charlotte-observer. Accessed April 22, 2025.
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.) .{,, Helms Ad Campaign Aguinst Hunt Signals Start of 'Ba Senate Rac" I they've got to try to attack that ln some way." _- Hackney calls some of the H.etrn8 ads, especially the one de.plctlng.Hunt wlth Jbsse Jackson, r8cist.."The.y obvlousty are (riij rst) and are intended to be," Hack- ney say8, adding that Hunt has not addressed the issue; 'out-of-state campatgn contriuu. ;;'ffir- itil'i;irdb":ti#Jr rro..tions.'create o.uugauoiJvor-iiifit iirir r.not to have,"'the ad.says. .,Jim ',,Those small.ctrcutatton news- i,lg,(fl jll'"TStltr?,,:?*1i,3$if[.i,'#;i,ft;{i"ai#;J,.?ffI to New York Cltv ralse out-of.state .fgt_"i-i"6.i iiiii"fgn. .,Th,e readers wilt readmo:ley to defeat lesie uetmi.;' -' ",,ifiole papers from cover to' _ The ad descrlbes some N.C.":';;;.,, Campaign Fund contrtb.uto*: - :: *!iiirf,.n, says the ad campaign ",!,,{i,i,iii:t}&i".:,:,::5l:.lnilX#".if r*liffio Andrew young, ..former ttriitairi;ii,ribiiainewimeaia.,,U.N. ambassador wi-o sal<t the "'iSo rany ttmes, so much of theAvatouah Khomernr was,a meaJi rriri"niilp-iiru-ni.iii.,i, ..-salnt."' l**iif*r,':*i::rfffi iH':q"#ii'tt\k;ti#$_ ,. ,. .Sol Linowttz, ,,negotrator of iriiviliiri to;rfi;;ii:;'-.the deal.paying panam]a to talii ...3t.ptun. refuses to say howour canal." .ff:r1._ ffiHH ril [1,. nrtThe ads are nrnnrng. marnty. !n iri-d'Miiuil6;;iu;6i-ons oi-sma[-town dailies ani weerlei, iiJt-or- i6i" ir,i-'iii.C"'ilm"ocraticand on the N.C. News Networli, i;fi;, says the newspapers adsZ2 radio stauons tn mostty smCli ifi,i". .o.t roughty $20,000 a.:and medtum-stzed to_yl:-^tl11 ro ili.'ti, u..ordtng to her survey ofl:9.etv.e Ralelgh-based newscasts on o"iri"p.r. carrytng the ads.the hour. . accoiaing to Mrk€ Edwards, ,#nTl, ?,'rlTdt#","t'l;.:::,#": the network's stafion retatitns ii"'ri" "f Jim Hunt,s political im- ffifijdli,if,.#id6:liifl fir;i;Ts ;"r,.:*.nrw,statlon. coupred with thi l 2-week ;ai' ;;y_. a.iiitv"ii..?J'!l'il.,"rv -",9111. iil lhe lsqlewspspers, sreht ir;.k;;i'. I:ii".i"lno* i-.;-:.-.'.: j'ir'/ p-.qfi;i,1. ffiIi-A't#'lt*rX1! : .,fe$ Jesse Herms , ..3,,,o:ti-.Lr-.lr:: iln -HIl! ^:S_dl Hei 6 i;s me ssas es h ave gone out Continued From page tA cal leaders want Jesse Helms out of the Senate?" the ad says. o Hunt flying by staie aircraftto Marion to open the new McDowell County Democratlc headquarters. ,.FACT: Jim Hunt has repeatedly used the state heli- copters and state airplanes to at- tend Hunt political events. North Carolina-taxpayers are paylng the blll for the Jim Hunt political-ma- chine," the ad says. _ o Hunt associating wlth Sen. Edward Kennedy, D--Mass., and Georgia- state Ser. ,rrulian Bond, whom the ad, relers to as head of _th_e "Blac PAC." ..Ask yqurself -Why do Blac PAC and. Kennedv P-AC -want !o elect Jtm Hunt to thi U.S. S^enate?'! the ad says. a Out-of-state fundralslnc bvthe N.C. Campalgn funa,- thi - 9ne recent radio ad, descrlblnq Julian Bond as a .:Blac-rAE Ieader", was changed to ..llberat polltlclan," Stephens says, not be- c.ause of raclst- lmplications, but,"Decause people did not under. stand what a black pAC w8s." . Stept-rens denles the ads are rac-Ist. "That's lust comethtnr - ttrev wgltd. [ke to -do-to chanle thi subject matter," he--gays. _ . tlgt has not reapo-nOea. ..It's a Dad.tdea st-rateglcally to get down ID tJte mud wlth tbem,,'-Hackney88y8. ,* .. But- the Campalin Fund took out rutl-page ads ln some newspa- pgls garly thts year crlttctzinr Helms's posltlons bn Soctat Seculrlty. The state DemocraUc Fartv also placed an ad chtdtng Hanil,for votlng to increase the- ta;;l tobacco-tax. Those aas appearJd before the recent Hetms iri camlpalgn. . ,.ir .ttqtt!(_e- past campalSns, In which Helms sald he Lnei+, nottr. ll! oI neSafive adverttstng taiuli, Jrepne-ns says Helme revlews most of the 8ds @fore pubUcatlon or broadcast. .'i( : ^- Asked lf Helms approved them, stephens replled, .,If the scnatoi was.dtspleased wlth anythlng, he' would certalnly let us kriow."'' . Campalgn Fund Chalrman Rlch- ardson Preyer sald the Camoaten Fund wlll turn the negattve ailvjr. tlsing lnto a campalgi tssue. Hu;tpress se_c,retary Gary pearce a_grees: "We wfll ralse-the gues- tion, 'Js thls the klnd of poitttcs you want to.see? Is thls litntl of cqmp-algn good for Xorth Car. olina? Is this the klnd of camoelon a U-.9. Senate candidate oughii; run?" ., Says Stephene of the ads:"They're good, soltd factual pieces-. I believe we're maklng thepoint." j......