Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inviting delegates and press up to their hospitality suites for a little free food and drink and some good conversation. About 5000 people showed up at Senator Bentsen's (D-Texas) suite Friday night and drank somewhere around $20,000 worth of liquor. A party given by the Latino caucus featured a seven-piece combo in green flowered shirts, an open bar, and tacos and enchalidas. The Louisiana delegation rented a room and filled it with tubs of shrimp and liquor. They also handed out colored beaded necklaces which could be seen on many a haggard delegates' neck the next...
Violence on the floor was nonexistent except for a small fracas occasioned by a confrontation between a labor representative and Willie Brown, a black caucus member and Los Angeles Assembly man who had led a walkout of blacks and some reformers at an executive meeting of the Charter Commission in August. The labor delegate apparently had charged that blacks were applying undue and unprincipled pressure to gain passage of affirmative action guidelines...
...full-fledged fight did occur, however, between two members of the press. Christopher Lydon, a reporter for the New York Times given to flamboyant dress, was knocked down by Robert Novak, a columnist and partner of Rowland Evans. Novak had gotten into a closed-to-the-press labor caucus. When Lydon tried to follow him he was told to leave. Lydon complained that if other reporters could go in, so could he. As a result Novak was identified as a reporter and thrown out. Novak in his anger yelled, "If you ever do that again I'll knock your block...
...black caucus, the Spanish caucus and the women's caucus were all in on the substance of the compromise and voted on it. And if you weren't in one of those caucuses you just weren't part of the action in this convention...
Frances "Sissy" Farenthold, a leader of the National Women's Political Caucus, said in an interview yesterday that party leaders showed visible signs of worry during the Saturday meeting with the caucuses...