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...unions hope for a payoff next time ore than a year ago, the 13.7 million-member AFL-CIO took the unprecedented step of endorsing a Democratic presidential candidate, Walter Mondale, before a single caucus or primary had been held. The goal: to establish labor early on as the decisive element in the Democrats' bid for the White House. "If we do not do what we propose to do, we shall be reviled as toothless and irrelevant," said AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland at the time. "If we succeed, we shall be condemned for daring to aspire to a share...
...then at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, Jackson made his cause clear. The morning after his stunning speech of conciliation and redemption, he spoke to the Black Caucus. "Women got what they want," he said, "in Geraldine Ferraro; the South got what it wants in Bert Lance. What did you get?-you ain't got nothing!" He made his demands sharp: that the Democratic Party in the South establish in each of the old Confederate states one distinct district where a black Congressman would be nominated and, with the support of the party, be elected. In other words...
Their political arms-the National Organization for Women and the National Women's Political Caucus-are shrewd and tough, and they have their own agenda. They demand passage of the Equal Rights Amendment as the seal of all equality, although it can be argued that the ERA might prove to be of dubious merit for it gives to men equal rights with women, such as the right to resist draft in wartime if women are not drafted, or the right to refuse combat duty if women may refuse. Women's agenda includes, as is long overdue, equal...
...ourselves as the left-wing caucus of the Democratic Party," explains Silvers. "We're simply interested in a more radical perspective than the Democratic Party," adds Kim Ladin...
Goldman, who distributed red buttons to supporters reading "The K Team," says that even if McGee mops up all the undecided representatives, he will still be 12 or 13 votes short in the all-important Democratic caucus...