Word: kamarck
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...sufficiently to win as a favorite son. Richard Gephardt -- who was stillborn at the new year, resuscitated in Iowa and then died aborning in the South -- is taking advantage of the new murkiness to attempt a second coming this Saturday in Michigan. Suddenly, as a result of what Elaine Kamarck, an architect of the party's rules, calls "a failure to die," there are five again...
Though lines of autonomy inevitably blur to some extent, it was clear that the Mondale committees were far from independent operations. Most were spawned by a memo sent in January by Elaine Kamarck, a Mondale coordinator, to potential Mondale delegates offering assistance to those who wished to form local fund-raising units. Kamarck noted that while Mondale himself had called PAC contributions improper for a presidential candidate, the delegate committees "may make their own decision." Critics charge that this was an open invitation for committees to seek hefty donations from labor-union PACs. Many delegate groups did: of the contributions...