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Without abolishing the primaries, as Barry Goldwater has proposed, the role of party leaders and officeholders can be increased. Minneapolis Attorney David Lebedoff, a longtime activist in Minnesota's Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, asks: "If we have representative government, why can't we have representative politics? No one says that there should be a town meeting of 100 million people through two-way TV for a vote on the SALT treaty." Everett C. Ladd of the Social Science Data Center at the University of Connecticut argues that the alleged glories "of participatory democracy have neutralized representative democracy...
...patronage. "By taking politics out of the back room and engaging thousands in political activity, from women to college students," observes Author Neal R. Peirce in The Great Plains States of America, "Stassen made the governmental process in Minnesota a superior instrument of the people's will." Says David Lebedoff, a Minneapolis lawyer and author: "Politics is an honorable profession in this state. In other states, people don't gamble away their best years in politics. Here it's expected, because we feel it is important enough...
...debt. Says his wife Mary, a bright and gregarious former Bemidji High School homecoming queen whom he married in 1963: "If we had lost, I think we would have had to sell the house, and I would be scrubbing floors today." Anderson was nominated on the sixth ballot. David Lebedoff, who served as his campaign
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