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...David Wilhelm's (see, never heard of him, have you?) particular brief last Friday was to discuss the importance of youth to the Democratic party. The fax The Crimson received the day before the event described it as a "round table discussion"--pretty grandiose for a spin session between a semi-populist (he's from Ohio and he's not a lawyer) pol and five college reporters. Besides, it was a rectangular table...
According to Wilhelm, college age students are very important to the Democratic party. They need to get in touch with us disaffected types before we all go and vote for Perot in large numbers again. Today's younger generation (Wilhelm seemed in blissful ignorance of the Alexander Star article in The New Republic that pointed out that there really is no such thing) is looking to its future, economically insecure and politically alienated, said Wilhelm. He actually said that youth were the most economically insecure group. Kind of makes you wonder about all those wonderfully secure poor people, doesn...
...afternoon was a delightful exercise in political rhetoric: how to promise much and say little, by David Wilhelm. A classic case was the discussion of the national service plan--which would allow students to pay for their college education by working in public sector jobs after graduation. According to Wilhelm, the program will involve 150,000 to 200,000 students...
...woman from Boston University asked what the unions would have to say about 200,000 young people competing for their jobs. Wilhelm explained that they would work with unions so that national service wouldn't displace any existing jobs. Someone else asked who was going to pay those 200,000 salaries if they didn't displace current jobs. Furthermore, the reporter continued, weren't establishing a huge national service project and fixing the economy (another big issue for youth, according to Wilhelm) slightly incompatible goals...
...Wilhelm's other big issue is political reform. The puff piece on him in this month's Rolling Stone makes a big point of his work with labor groups and his success at mobilizing local activity while he was managing Clinton's campaign. In what seemed like a bad Jerry Brown flashback, Wilhelm predicted the increased use of "800" numbers and celebrity telethons. He even compared the possibility of such an event to "Jerry's Kids." You can just picture Barbara Streisand urging us all to give to "Clinton's Committees...