WASHINGTON -- Organizers of a Draft Powell committee that seeks to win the Republican presidential nomination for Gen. Colin Powell said yesterday that they had formally filed with the ,, Federal Election Commission.
The committee, Citizens for Colin Powell, has not been authorized by General Powell, but its filing with the election commission would let it be converted into an official campaign committee should the general announce his candidacy.
"The extent of the outpouring of support for Colin Powell for president . . . prompts our filing at this time," said Charles J. Kelly Jr., a retired investment banker who heads the group. Besides Mr. Kelly, the directors are Stephen E. Ambrose, a historian and biographer; Charles L. Bartlett, a journalist; former Rep. Bill Frenzel of Minnesota; George H. Walker III, who heads a stock brokerage firm and is a cousin of former President George Bush; George B. Weathersby, vice chairman of the Cambridge Corp. in New York; and John Reagan "Tex" McCrary, a radio commentator and journalist.
