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Although the large and very liberal California Democratic Council (CDC) which backed McCarthy from the beginning suffered defeat in the close and then tragic June presidential primary, it is the major organized force on the Democratic side. The CDC is policy-oriented and very much into the new politics of mass media and coalitions with black and brown (Mexican-American) peoples...
Liberal McCarthvites have control of the party--but barely. They realize consolidation and a strong issue-base are the only answers to the problem. To meet it, a reformists league--either tightly knit like the CDC or a non-partisan group like ADA--will get together after the election. McCarthy and Kennedy people never merged following the assassination, since the McCarthy slate had been elected in the May primary. Much of the Kennedy organization was out-of-state, leaving the McCarthy machine few with which to form a viable coalition. Re-electing Sen. Wayne Morse occupy most liberals this fall...
...supporter, at the head of the party and the only significant Democratic office-holder in the past few years, liberals have played an important part in the decision-making. The 7000-member McCarthy organization--with a heavy dose of academicians--will probably go for a Democratic Coalition like the CDC after the election. Affluent McCarthyites have increased their control by giving generously this fall to moderate party candidates. If Hoff runs for the U.S. Senate in 1970, the liberal Coalition will most likely provide his base of support...
...state has a relatively simple organization to crack," said one McCarthy operative. The McCarthyites were brutally put down in party caucuses last summer and they are mad. They are mad enough to form a Washington Democratic Council (WDC) along the lines of the CDC to try to take over the party. "A lot of people are determined to stick around the party and do some homework; the only real question is how easy it is to change the people into long-term politicians," Ed Voris said, a Seattle McCarthyite...
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...