Word: slates
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...convention last week, McGovern tried to take the first steps. As is customary, the nominee offered his choice for a new slate of officers for the Democratic National Committee. McGovern wanted Chairman Larry O'Brien to stay on, even though some of the Senator's staff objected. Strongly believing that the McGovern ticket is doomed this fall, O'Brien refused the offer. In his place, McGovern proposed Mrs. Jean Westwood, a savvy Utah national committeewoman who ran the McGovern citizens' movement in 17 Western states. McGovern wanted her partly because she is a woman, but also because her ties...
...been pushing for a compromise that would seat both Daley's and Singer's delegates with i vote for each. But when Daley rejected that, McGovern's delegates were free to wield their newly confirmed power and, it may be, have their vengeance for Chicago, 1968. Daley and his slate were excluded?by 1,486.45 to 1,371.55. Daley was too prescient to give anyone the pleasure of seeing him thrown off the floor; he never came to Miami. The unseating of Daley raised again a fundamental question about the democracy of the party's new guidelines. At what point...
Daley was critical of the alternate slate of 59 delegates, which bumped him from the Democratic National Convention. He said, however, he would cooperate with the slate led by Alderman William Singer if Singer's group supported Democrats at the local level as well as at the national...
Kenneth Elstein in outlook and experience is in many ways typical of the young McGovernites. A high school math teacher, Elstein began his political experiment last October when he read a short item in the New York Times describing a professor's effort to put together a McGovern slate. Elstein volunteered. Strictly obeying the new party guidelines, Elstein and the other McGovernites held open caucuses to decide their slate, which included Elstein and seven others...
Support. One difficult problem in the heavily Jewish district was persuading voters that McGovern was not, as rumored, opposed to aid for Israel. When the votes were counted, the McGovern slate had swept the district, Elstein running third with 23,591 votes. The top candidate of Brooklyn Democratic Leader Meade Esposito received only...