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...David Wilhelm's interim successor as chairman of the Democratic National Committee will be Debra DeLee, currently the party's No. 2 official and already scheduled to be the chief organizer of the 1996 Democratic Convention. DeLee was drafted from the National Education Association in order to reduce chaos at the DNC, where she has fired scores of underlings. It is expected ) that she will step down as chair next year -- and be replaced by one honored name or another from the party's 1994 roster of election losers...
Cherubic and wide-eyed, David Wilhelm, 37, lacks the public ferocity usually expected of a party's national chairman. "The White House wants to hear a Great Dane barking," said one of Wilhelm's friends. "David often sounds like a Chihuahua...
...proved to be no match for Barbara Mikulski. On July 26 the diminutive but unquestionably ferocious Senator from Maryland went to the White House with several Democratic colleagues to review major legislative problems like health care with Bill Clinton. But she pressed a different priority: removal of Wilhelm as party chairman. If the Democratic caucus were polled, she said, it would be unanimous -- Wilhelm must go. Party elders, notably Senate majority leader George Mitchell, demurred. But Mikulski's complaints had wide resonance. Last week the White House informed Wilhelm that Tony Coelho, a tough and controversial political pro, would...
Facing the possibility of a bleak electoral season this fall, the Democratic Party rejiggered its team of top players, gently easing out national chairman David Wilhelm. Though Wilhelm will remain on the job until after the November elections, former California Representative Tony Coelho, a once powerful insider in the House, is being brought in to mastermind party strategy...
...DAVID WILHELM...