Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notion of a G.O.P. double-§- cross was first planted in O'Neill's ear by California Congressman Edward Roybal, one of the eleven-member Hispanic caucus. Roybal admits that he first heard it as dinner gossip, but as evidence, he produced a letter from Attorney General William French Smith to the House Judiciary Committee expressing Administration reservations concerning the House version of the bill. Rumors supposedly emanating from the White House also hinted of a presidential veto...
...Geraldine Ferraro, 48. A three-term Queens, N.Y., Congresswoman, she is secretary of the House Democratic caucus. She would bring an ethnic and urban balance to, for example, a Glenn candidacy. Says she: "I am from Archie Bunker's district, but Edith elected...
...general board of the AFL-CIO, and this week leaders representing all 14 million AFL-CIO members are expected to ratify that decision, enter- ing Big Labor, with all its organizing muscle and money, into a Democratic pre-convention campaign for the first time ever. On Saturday a caucus of Maine Democratic activists yielded Mondale a satisfying if relatively meaningless (there would have been meaning only if he had lost) 51% victory. Next week Mondale hopes to announce the public support of two prominent Democratic Governors, 100 Senators and Representatives, and 200 or so leading business people...
...straw poll. Such polls select no convention delegates and are not even a guide to voter sentiment, since they are often taken at meetings of the party faithful; the one in thinly populated Maine should have been especially meaningless. But after California Senator Alan Cranston packed a June Wisconsin caucus and won a straw poll there, Mondale vowed to tolerate |no more such upsets; his troops hit Maine like Eisenhower's armies assaulting the Normandy beaches. Fifteen paid Mondale workers and 35 full-time volunteers canvassed the state's two congressional districts for 2½ months. Mondale himself...
...House and Senate Democratic caucuses will oversee this unprece- dented election of delegates from Congress. The House Caucus, which may select its allotted 164 conventiongoers as early as Jan. 18, has adopted a complex election process. Two-thirds of the delegates will be nominated by twelve subcaucuses of Democratic backbenchers organized by geographic region; the remaining third will be put up by the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, chaired by House Speaker Tip O'Neill. If a would-be delegate is passed over, he can put his candidacy before the House Democratic Caucus by persuading five colleagues...