Word: backers
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Mondale's most influential backer may be San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, Texas' numero uno Hispanic leader. Cisneros says that Mondale's "personal relationships" within the state's Mexican-American community, many dating back almost two decades, "engender a deep-seated loyalty that is hard to counter in a caucus environment." Because of rigorous voter-registration efforts, there may soon be almost 1 million Hispanics on the rolls, twice as many as in 1976. They will make up about a fifth of the voter turnout, and Mondale could win as many as three out of four...
...Hart more than 37% of their votes vs. not quite 28% for Mondale. Moreover, Hart swept nearly every category of voter; one exit poll found that only those aged 60 or over delivered the expected margins for Mondale. In the judgment of House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a Mondale backer, Hart has pulled off "probably the biggest upset in Democratic politics since [Eugene] McCarthy went up against Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire in 1968." Says puzzled Pollster Claibourne Darden, whose soundings failed to gauge the extent of the Hart surge in New Hampshire: "It's just the damnedest thing...
Instead, Hart proposes using tax incentives to retrain workers and encourage industry to modernize. But unlike many, including Reagan, he does not want to abandon the traditional "smokestack" producers in the process. Hart is an early backer of Kennedy School lecturer Robert B. Reich's "industrial policy" to rejuvenate ailing industries using the government to negotiate compacts between management, labor, and the financial markets. Hart has also proposed a reform in entitlement programs to cut costs, and has advocated an active Federal Reserve Board to target interest rates to promote economic growth...
...CMAC is a way to bring the races together, so that they can enjoy and appreciate each other's culture," says City Councilor Saundra Graham, a staunch backer of the center. Adds the center's director, David Kronberg: "We're presenting different forms of culture and we're bringing different racial and ethnic groups together...
Married, with five children, Hambrecht lives in an Edwardian-style home in San Francisco's opulent Pacific Heights district. In recent years he has begun diverting some of his attention, and money, to Democratic politics. A major backer of Presidential Candidate Alan Cranston of California, Hambrecht explains that in politics, as in business, he has "a natural affinity for the underdog...