Word: emanuele
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...perils of entropy and have started taking steps to fix it. Democratic leaders told TIME that in coming weeks, the party will coalesce around several working-class issues, including raising the minimum wage and increasing student loans, which the leaders believe will appeal to voters concerned about values. Emanuel's candidates will sign on to a "Six in '06" list of issues with a populist theme. Dean, who says the party should appeal to Evangelicals, will echo those working-class appeals this fall with a push on values. And Pelosi has promised that bills along those lines will...
...that unity push won't eliminate some of the tensions that have existed between Emanuel and others leading the push for a takeover of the House. Democrats worry about the long-term consequences for the party if Pelosi--whom Republicans call a San Francisco liberal but whose aides prefer to describe as a "churchgoing mother of five, grandmother of five"--becomes the public face of the majority. Allies of Pelosi, who put Emanuel in his campaign job, say that if the Democrats take over, he could become whip, the third-ranking leader. Several Democrats familiar with House sentiment speculate that...
...relationship between Emanuel and Pelosi, friendly but never warm, is fraught with intrigue. Leaders of the House's black and Hispanic caucuses recently got so fed up with Emanuel over his reluctance to hire minority consultants for the fall campaign that they appealed to Pelosi to intervene, and she is working on brokering a truce. Still, Emanuel and Pelosi have come together to try to persuade Dean to stop spending so much money--for consultants and an average of four organizers and communicators in each of the 50 states. Pelosi and Emanuel want to do what the Republican National Committee...
...thing is, come August, September, October, this is a resources game," Emanuel told TIME late one night after a day of West Coast fund raising. He was a bit more direct after a recent meeting he had with Dean to discuss the matter. Emanuel cursed and stormed out to go to the floor and vote, according to witnesses. "I wish the Democratic divisions could go away," Pelosi said when asked about the Dean dispute. "There's so much at stake here...
...that strategy runs counter to the highly tactical approach that Emanuel has pursued, which is to pick winnable districts and candidates who can win them. Looking to beat popular G.O.P. incumbents, Emanuel has sought out people who break the mold of the white male state legislators who generally run for Congress. He has enough female candidates running in key races that if the Democrats take over, there's sure to be a spate of Year of the Woman stories...