Word: planking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...being consulted about the Lance appointment, complaining to numerous groups, "For women it's Ferraro, for the South it's Bert Lance, but for the blacks and Hispanics, so far they can point to nobody or no concrete commitment." The Mondale forces easily defeated Jackson planks calling for the U.S. to renounce the first use of nuclear weapons (2,216 to 1,406); a real decrease in defense spending rather than a modest rise (2,592 to 1,128); and the elimination of runoff primaries when no candidate receives a majority in the first vote...
...Mondale forces wisely compromised on the fourth Jackson proposal, which called for a variety of affirmative-action techniques to provide greater job opportunities for minority applicants. Mondale operatives finally agreed to support the plank if Jackson would drop his demand for "quotas" in employment and substitute "verifiable measurements." This partial victory did not end black restiveness, and flyers circulated on the floor urging the 700 or so black delegates to vote for Jackson on the first roll call...
...resist Hart's one floor motion, which sought to ban the use of U.S. troops, particularly in the Persian Gulf, until after all negotiations had failed and only if U.S. security was at stake. In return, Hart instructed his delegates to vote against the Jackson dual-primary plank. In an earlier unifying move, Mondale had agreed to let Hart address the convention on Wednesday night, right before the nomination balloting was scheduled to begin...
Mondale is in this jam because he has never been able to separate himself from the cliche his critics have created about him--the special interests mongerer. He was created as an embodiment of the party platform; everybody has a plank, and everybody gets what he wants. Mondale believes that he can win the election by adding up minority groups and pandering ad nauseam to women's groups. It won him a party nomination, but he earned it with only percent of the primary vote--compared to 36 percent for Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.)--which makes...
...into a political quagmire. Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson are all on record against it; Hispanic leaders, fearful that the bill's proposed sanctions against employers who hire illegal immigrants might lead to job discrimination against all Hispanics, would try to write an anti-Simpson-Mazzoli plank into the party platform. That, in turn, would make it more difficult for Democrats to support any bill that might emerge from the conference committee when Congress reconvenes the week after the convention...