Word: cdc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Scheer and other leftists did, of course, was decide to boycott the election. Even CDC members refused to work in the Brown campaign. "Now no Democrat will ever again take us for granted," Scheer contends. "They'll have to make concessions to us. We'll have more of a machine than the pros when Brown loses...
Scheer and the rest of the California Conference for New Politics -- part of the national movement -- want to test their theory by running a candidate for Thomas Kuchel's Senate seat in 1968. Whether the candidate will be Scheer himself or Simon Casady, the ousted CDC president, has not been determined. Scheer says he might also like another crack at Jeffrey Cohelan's House seat...
...member CDC, no matter what eastern correspondents say about it, is pretty insignificant in California. Statistical studies done by James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, show that CDC-endorsed candidates do no better than unendorsed candidates in both primary and general elections...
What will hurt Brown is losing the volunteer help the CDC could have supplied; and, of course, the coverage the California newspapers gave the raucous CDC convention has convinced many Californians that the party is hopelessly split and incapable of running the state...
...party -- even excluding the CDC -- is in fact so badily splintered, that California reporters speak of it as if it were three parties: the Brown "loyalists," the Yorty "insurgents," and the Unruh "power brokers...