Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bootstrapped himself out of poverty (as youngsters, he and a brother took turns with their single suit), Bradley organized what he called a "coalition of conscience." It included blacks, Mexican-Americans, white liberal Democrats and independents. After the April round eliminated the Republican Party from the nominally nonpartisan election, he also picked up support from liberal Republicans. Bradley is 51 and lacks any great dynamism, but he attracted thousands of young volunteer workers, both black and white, nevertheless. Many of his supporters had worked long and hard last year in the presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy...
...impeachment has circumscribed his own options, probably ruling out anyone, like Attorney General Mitchell, who could be tagged, as Fortas was, the President's "crony." It is more likely now that Nixon will look to the lower courts or to the law schools, where he could find distinguished, nonpartisan professors. For Chief Justice, he might elevate someone already on the Supreme Court. Associate Justice Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee, is considered a sound, noncontroversial choice for the spot. Somewhat to the right of center, Stewart has a solid, if not brilliant reputation. The two new openings might be filled...
...Angeles, the city charter calls for mayoral elections to be nonpartisan. The so-called mayoral primary is tantamount to a general election, which can be won by any candidate getting more than 50% of the vote...
...minutes. But that concordat between the old rivals was a rare thing. The Governor is pushing through a stiff anti-fraud voting law aimed at the kind of ballot-box finagling for which Cook County is famous. Another Ogilvie-backed bill would make Chicago's mayoralty election nonpartisan; when candidates must run without official party labels, organizational control over them is weakened. The cruelest thrust against Daley is a proposal to reform Chicago's civil service system and thus wreck the giant patronage network that has maintained the Daley combine as one of the last of the oldtime...
...requires delegates to political conventions to be elected, not appointed as they are today. Voters are also to be educated on all campaign issues through regular party conventions. Backroom political favors and private contributions to politicians are specifically abolished. The whole apparatus of elections is regulated by a nonpartisan "overseer of politics," who also finances all campaigns with public money...