New Right fund-raising wizard vows all-out fight against Judge O’Connor

WASHINGTON – A major conservative fundraiser – declaring the New Right is not “a paper tiger” – vowed Wednesday to enter the fray to keep Sandra O’Connor from winning Senate confirmation as a Supreme Court jUBtice …

said committee Chairman Strom Thurmond, RS.C., told him the nomination is expected to clear the com.mittee and be reported out to the full Senate by Sept. 15. Fundamentalist preacher Carl McIntire, singling ont Judge O’Connor’s views on the rights of religious broadcasters and church ownership of property, said, “We believe (that} in the area of First Amendment rights, she’s very dangerous.” Viguerie served notice, while speaking to the Washington Press Club, of an all-out battle to convince senators to vote against her. “These senators have to be shown a tremendoUB outpouring at the grass-roots level” before they will oppose Judge O’Connor, said Viguerie, who has raised millions of dollars for conservative candidates and causes across the nation. Viguerie said the New Right – an informal coalition united by ultraconservative views on both social and economic issues – has to wage a battle against Judge O’Connor’s record on the abortion issue or else the White House “will just think we are a paper tiger.” But the White House repeated the administration•~ belief that she will be confirmed – perhaps unanunously. Meanwhile, Carolyn Gerster, former Right to Life president and longtime acquaintance of Judge O’Connor, was asked if she believes President Reagan was duped