==Dan Richey and Woody Jenkins==
Richey met his future legislative colleague [[Woody Jenkins|Louis "Woody" Jenkins ]] of Baton Rouge through their Key Club activities. When Richey ran for international Key Club president, Jenkins managed the campaign. Jenkins was Richey's unofficial "campaign manager" during the three legislative races and was "Best Man" in Richey's wedding on January 4, 1976, to the former Jessie Valcarcel of San Juan, [[Puerto Rico]].
Richey supported Jenkins' Democratic campaigns for the U.S. Senate in 1978 and 1980, but Jenkins lost to the popular incumbents, [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], of [[Shreveport]] and [[Russell Long]] of Baton Rouge. Jenkins, like Richey, switched to Republican registration in 1994. In 1996, Jenkins ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the Senate against the retiring Johnston's preferred choice, former state Treasurer [[Mary Landrieu]] of New Orleans. Many Republicans charged that Landrieu's narrow victory was based on "phantom voters" from Orleans Parish. [1]
In the middle 1980s, Richey served as vice chairman of Friends of the Americas, a non-profit organization founded by Woody Jenkins and his wife, the former Diane Aker. FOA was a "non-political" group which attempted to establish humanitarian programs in[[Latin America]] to help the people overcome poverty, natural disasters, or war. The group became a major relief organization with principal operations based in [[Honduras]], along the border with [[Nicaragua]]. [1]
Jenkins and Richey are members of the conservative think-tank, the [[Council for National Policy]]. The group also included until their deaths Nelson Bunker Hunt of Texas, [[Phyllis Schlafly]] of [[Missouri]] and [[Paul Weyrich]] of [[Washington, D.C.]] [1]