Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...labor leaders has been to get their members selected as uncommitted delegates. This enhanced their collective power at the convention. But they are finding that unless they can stack a local caucus, uncommitted slates or individuals can rarely win now. AFL-CIO officials running as uncommitted delegates in Arizona, for example, were soundly defeated; five of Arizona's 25 elected delegates are uncommitted. This trend is pressuring labor to choose sides earlier...
...ARIZONA'S route to the Miami convention began a year ago when the state's Democratic leaders settled upon a complex, two-tier nominating system. First, registered Democrats would elect 500 delegates to a state convention. Then the 500 would elect 25 national delegates to go to the main event in Miami, apportioned according to the number of state delegates for each candidate...
...McGovern 20%, with the remaining 18% uncommitted to any candidate. On the face of it, that seemed a reasonable outcome. But when the Democrats tried to apply the formula, they found themselves with a confusing set of fractions. Muskie's 38% of the state convention, applied to Arizona's 25 national delegates, came out to 91 delegates, creating a Solomonic dilemma. Similar mathematical puzzles plagued each camp. Three into two wouldn...
...emissary present. The result of the meeting was a Lindsay-Muskie alliance favoring a change of the convention rules to eliminate fractions in the distribution of delegates. Under the new formula, the delegates would be apportioned on a base of 24, leaving the 25th delegate slot to Arizona Democratic State Chairman Herbert Ely, who professed himself for the present to be uncommitted...
When the convention was over, Arizona had picked two high school students, two blacks and six Mexican Americans among the 25 people who will represent the state in Miami. With only eight women in the delegation, there is the threat of a challenge, but the delegation approximates the character of the state's population. In 1960, one man picked the entire slate; in 1968, a handful of men drew up the delegate list. In 1972, more than 35,000 Arizona Democrats voted in the January election; 465 attended the state convention, and despite the smoke-filled room, the reforms...