Word: anticaucus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic congressional staffer sympathetic to the council candidly calls it "an anticaucus caucus." Many Democratic leaders sneer that the group is trying to cure the party's excessive factionalism by introducing still more factionalism. "You can't rebuild something that is split by splitting it further," says an official of the AFL-CIO, which suspects that the council is out to reduce labor's influence in the party. South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings calls the group "divisive and harmful." Others suspect that the council is likely to become a vehicle for the 1988 presidential ambitions of some of its founders...
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