Word: kamarck
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...centrists don't want to go down with him. Explains Elaine Kamarck, a former PPI fellow currently working for Vice President Gore: "The DLC worries about dying off if the President's defeated. The battle for the party's soul will continue even if he wins. But if he loses, the liberals will claim that the dlc's centrist views were responsible and should be tossed aside entirely. The counterargument will be that just because the messenger proved imperfect, doesn't mean the message itself should be junked...
...politics -- he is neither pollster, nor consultant, nor academic, nor public official -- From is responsible less for crafting the leadership council's proposals than for selling them. From raised the money, organized the conferences, hired the experts and started 30 council chapters nationwide. "Al is the impresario," says Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the institute and a transition operative. "He's really a public policy entrepreneur...
...that many of those policies have triumphed, From is marketing the people to carry them out. Kamarck is in charge of campaign-finance issues; deputy Bruce Reed is a former leadership-council policy director; William Galston, a + longtime council luminary, is developing the national-service proposal and helping out on family and children's issues. Three weeks ago, Clinton named former South Carolina Governor Richard Riley, a D.L.C. supporter, as the transition personnel director. Party liberals began to worry out loud about, as one of them put it, "ideological purity tests...
...critical for Clinton for two reasons: 1) despite his impressive victory, a majority of Americans voted for someone else; and 2) there is a vast difference between being an instrument of change and being a catalyst for change. Clinton "thought about beginning this definitional process before the election," says Kamarck, "but the result was in too much doubt, and he had to make sure...
Clinton's advisers hope he will emulate Ronald Reagan. Against the evidence, Reagan interpreted his 1980 victory as a vote for his supply-side nostrums rather than a vote against Jimmy Carter. "Reagan just said what the election was about, and pretty soon everyone bought his definition," says Kamarck. "Now, with a series of speeches culminating in his Inaugural, Clinton has to do what Reagan...