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...party unity when he appeared in Washington before Ferraro's platform committee. Although Hart did not mention Mondale, he urged the committee to reject "the traditional approach of some in our party who promise everything to everyone." He warned that "the Democratic Party cannot win if it is beholden to the old arrangements." Specifically, Hart opposed "a protectionist trade policy based on the proposed domestic content bill," which would require a share of American materials and labor in autos sold in the U.S. Mondale has firmly endorsed such legislation...
...probably no more than $500,000; Mondale is expected to spend a total of $24.2 million before the convention. But more than technicalities were involved. The controversy undercut the pledge Mondale made early in his candidacy that he would not accept PAC contributions and raised anew questions about how beholden he is to organized labor. Mondale took the matter so seriously that when Colorado Senator Gary Hart began taunting him for not actually returning the funds ("Give the money back, Walter-that's the way to solve the problem"), the former Vice President agreed to do almost exactly that...
...agenda for the press. When Hart asked Mondale in an Iowa debate to cite one issue on winch he had differed with labor, Mondale ducked the question; for days afterward, journalists kept posing the same query, fostering the impression Hart had sought to make, that Mondale is overly beholden to his supporters. In Atlanta, Mondale turned to Hart and cracked, "When I hear your new ideas, I'm reminded of that ad 'Where's the beef?' " That skewering sentence became perhaps the most excerpted "sound bite" from the 60-minute debate and served as effectively...
Hart had been the campaign's cold, hopeless egghead; now he was confident and beaming. Hart had used Mondale's pile of endorsements to make the former Vice President look beholden and dull. Last week, however, when Hart was endorsed by disparate bigwigs-South Carolina Senator Ernest Rollings, former House Speaker Carl Albert, a trio of liberal Los Angeles Congressmen-Mondale could only joke about the irony...
Mondale has taken a lot of abuse for being beholden to so-called special interests, but what does that mean? He has accepted endorsements by organized labor, teachers and womens groups, prominent minorities, and party leaders--backing any one of his opponents would have taken at a moment's notice. These are not ill-gotten friends--they are among the foremost groups being assaulted by Reagan, and Mondale should be proud for their support...