At the fourth convention of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, which met in St. Louis in June 1983, supporters of the nuclear freeze founded Freeze Voter '84, an independent Political Action Committee (PAC). In response to the growing threat of nuclear war and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the PAC's main goal was to "elect a President and Congress who will enact a nuclear weapons Freeze between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The Committee [will] achieve this goal through the electoral process." At the time of the PAC's inception, the elections were only 18 months away. It had no operating budget, no office, no staff, no press lists, and no network of politically savvy volunteers. This picture changed quickly....