The fundraising mailing says $10,000 is needed to reach voters in New Hampshire with the enclosed TV spot before the first primary of the 1988 presidential election. Thousands of potential supporters of presidential candidate and Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole will learn the shocking facts about Dole's support for the brutally repressive Botha regime in South Africa. The ad says: "While government guns keep millions of South African blacks in squalor and starvation ... Senator Bob Dole just turns his back on apartheid." Candidate Dole will be forced to respond and publicly defend his shameful support for the atrocities inflicted on the people of South Africa. As he travels around the state,...
The fundraising mailing says $10,000 is needed to reach voters in New Hampshire with the enclosed TV spot before the first primary of the 1988 presidential election. Thousands of potential supporters of presidential candidate and Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole will learn the shocking facts about Dole's support for the brutally repressive Botha regime in South Africa. The ad says: "While government guns keep millions of South African blacks in squalor and starvation ... Senator Bob Dole just turns his back on apartheid." Candidate Dole will be forced to respond and publicly defend his shameful support for the atrocities inflicted on the people of South Africa. As he travels around the state, voters will be demanding at every speech and at every news conference that he stop opposing U.S. sanctions against apartheid. If this effort is successful, we plan to produce more ads that turn the spotlight of public outrage against any presidential candidates who are unwilling to take a strong, public stand against the racist regime in South Africa. The TV spot was produced for only $1,500, with help from a top television producer in Los Angeles. But $10,000 more is needed to make "media buys" in areas to reach most of the voters of New Hampshire --Burlington, Vermont; Portland, Maine; and Boston. The mailing discusses recent repression in South Africa, including against young people and mine workers. During this past year, TransAfrica produced a series of hard-hitting full-page newspaper ads called "Faces Behind Apartheid" that ran in the New York Times and the home-state newspapers of Jesse Helms and Robert Dole.
