Word: antiboss
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...present nominating process is a prime example of reforms that have not worked. The 1968 Democratic Convention, an embarrassing spectacle dominated by Chicago's jowly Mayor Richard Daley and his helmeted riot police, inspired the party's liberals to push through a series of antiboss rules requiring a more open process. The number of delegates elected in primaries increased from 40% to 75%, and rules governing state conventions were liberalized; the "unit rule," requiring all of a state's delegates to vote the same way, was abolished, and more seats were made available for women, young people...
...primary campaign, Carey was induced to lose 30 pounds, and his antiboss, neighborhood, pragmatic image was stressed as part of a $2.5 million campaign financed in part by his multimillionaire brother Edward, the president of New England Petroleum Corp...
When Frank Lausche was mayor of Cleveland in the early '40s, he sculpted his political totem in the form of a mugwump and named it antiboss. Through five terms as Governor and two as U.S. Senator, the conservative-minded Democrat was well served by his cult of independence, although party leaders from the White House to the Ohio state committee were frequently and understandably distressed...
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