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...post-dinner press conference, Hart said his remark was "not in derogation of Vice President Mondale or the labor organization." The Coloradan insisted he is a "pro-labor Senator," claiming an "80-plus percent" approval rating from the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Responsibility (COPE) for "over 10 years...
...with a slight lead, Hart said, "Fritz Mondale is not ready to claim the title of front-runner again because he's a very humble man. Instead, I think, Fritz, you'd rather be considered a little-known dark horse struggling to get by on $12 million and the AFL-CIO endorsement...
Hart's dinner remarks seemed to anger party officials, some of whom hissed and whistled after he joked about Mondale's AFL-CIO endorsement...
...wily AFL-CIO president, Lane Kirkland, sat down with Political Columists Jules Witcover and Jack Germond in March 1982 and floated a whooper. He felt the AFL-CIO should endorse a candidate in 1983, long before the primaries and the conventions, something the federation had never done. Kirkland, its turns out, had been brooding about the idea since 1968 and had had it on the tip of this tongue the day after Ronald Reagan was elected...
...eight Democratic candidates sponsored by the Des Moines Register, so pointedly raised the question of how beholden Mondale is to organized labor, whose support could be worth as much as $20 million. At a press conference in Atlanta last week, John Glenn followed with a harsh rhetorical question for AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland. Asked Glenn: "What does Kirkland think he's buying with his $20 million? A President who will never disagree with the AFL-CIO? If the Democratic nomination can be bought for $20 million in the spring, it isn't going to be worth...