Word: non-partisan
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...money and the campaign jobs that blacks had been promised. The procedure for this pre-election patronage was supposed to be that McGovern, in addition to hiring them for positions of authority within his own national voter registration campaign, would induce his contributors to donate funds to nonprofit, officially non-partisan voter registration groups on the local and regional levels. The particular groups that were to receive these channeled funds would be chosen by the black political figures who were the main McGovern operatives in different parts of the country...
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...placing its emphasis on that single issue, it can unite all those who are against the Vietnam war, Lieberman explained. "Polls show that 79 per cent of Americans want to see the U.S. pull out of Vietnam," he said, "but many of these people are for Nixon. In a non-partisan antiwar demonstration, we will be able to include these supporters of Nixon. We must educate them...
Lieberman admitted that he did not know of anyone in the SMC or at the National Peace Action Coalition meeting who was a Nixon supporter, but defended the organization's non-partisan stance as the most effective way to end the Vietnam...
...following winter, Hartman was dismissed. He charged the administration with political chicanery. Throughout the Spring of 1970, he fought to have an appeal hearing before a non-partisan group of professors to decide whether in fact the non-renewal of his contract had been based on personal and political considerations. He didn't get very far. Today, nearly two years later, his appeal remains unheard...