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...criticisms have been accompanied by some blunt pressure. AFL-CIO officials warned that the labor federation might reduce its support of Democratic congressional candidates if the council was formed. Later, the 28- member California Democratic House delegation caucused and, says a participant, "virtually ordered" California Congressman Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, to stay out of the group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moving Toward the Middle | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

Democrats struggled to find some consolation in the House results. Insisted California's Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: "The Republicans needed a gain of 26 to look good and they didn't get it." Declared House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who faced no opposition: "The voters sent Democrats to Congress as a safety net for the American public." If that was a silver lining in the postelection cloud hanging over the congressional Democrats, it was hardly a cause for great rejoicing. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Neil MacNeil/Washington, with other bureaus

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: The House: A Silver Lining For the Democrats - Sort Of | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...second term, he would be 77. Too old to be President? Before the debate, the question was hardly mentioned, so great were the Democrats' fears of a backlash. "Reagan created an issue that has not yet come up in this campaign -age!" exulted California's Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "He looked old and acted old." Asked if Reagan was doddering in the debate, Coelho replied, "Well, he didn't quite drool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Questions of Age and Competence | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...would she behave in a crisis? Veteran politicians of both parties gave her high marks for handling that crisis with unruffled calm, crisp authority and low-key humor. "She's tough; she put her head down and stuck with it," said Republican Senate Leader Howard Baker. Tony Coelho, chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, compared Ferraro to the most successful politician in the U.S. today: "She handled it exactly like Ronald Reagan. Like him, she showed tremendous inner peace." Democratic strategists, jubilant over her performance, intend to encourage Ferraro to take on the heaviest campaign schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoping for a Fresh Start | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...late, for some basic tasks that many Democrats concede still have not been accomplished: coordinating the Mondale and Ferraro campaigns, defining a clear set of issues to be pressed, drawing up a target list of the states in which to campaign hardest. "What is their plan?" asks Congressman Coelho. "I don't know. They don't know, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoping for a Fresh Start | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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