Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approval of this program as the party's policy was by simple and enthusiastic voice vote. Harmony was not so easily attained in the matter of adopting the party charter for 1980 and be yond. As the convention gathered mo mentum and delegates of like mind began to caucus, Strauss started worrying that the compromises that he had so laboriously and skillfully put together for the party charter would come apart at the last moment. The most ex plosive issue in what Strauss called "a political minefield" was how explicitly the party charter should guarantee the representation and vote...
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...
...Sunday many delegates were nursing heavy heads and wormy stomachs. But most seemed pleased with their ratification of the first party charter in American history, a charter that opens the Democratic Party to broad participation and allows for ideological non-conformity. Strauss was being congratulated for having presented a united front to the public--a front that conceals major rifts...
...words of one delegate as he slumped drunkenly over a table at the Playboy Club, "A couple of hours ago that charter was the most important thing in my life and now it's over. It'll be two years before I'll be doing this kind of thing again. But I'm gonna be back and we're gonna...
...controversial party charter--the first constitution ever written and ratified by a national party--several influential Democrats representing conservative labor and sections of the South left Kansas City very bitter. In their view the party had not listened to all the voices within its membership, but only those that came from organized caucuses of blacks, women, Latins, youth and even state governors and mayors...