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dealing by various groups. In the days before the convention,
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political reporters scrutinized teachers unions, black activists,
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senior-citizen groups, feminists, gay-rights advocates - denigrating
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them as "special interests'' who could ruin "Clinton's convention''
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them as "special interests'' who could ruin "<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Clinton</span>'s convention''
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by "alienating middle-class voters.''
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With so much media focus on these relatively powerless grass-roots
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groups, powerful corporations - the country's REAL special
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virtually every corporate interest needing a government
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favor. The message to anti-poverty or consumer-rights activists:
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No need for you to come on board. You can wait at the station.</p>
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<p>ITEM: The Clinton-Gore ticket represents the seizure of the
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<p>ITEM: The <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Clinton</span>-Gore ticket represents the seizure of the
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party hierarchy by the Democratic Leadership Council, which
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is typically euphemized in the media as a group of
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"moderate'' Democratic politicians who want the party to
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"speak for the middle class.'' (Clinton and Gore were
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founders of the DLC; Clinton was its chair in 1990-91.)
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"speak for the middle class.'' (<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Clinton</span> and Gore were
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founders of the DLC; <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Clinton</span> was its chair in 1990-91.)
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The problem is that the DLC has no middle-class constituents.
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It is bankrolled by - and speaks for - corporate America:
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ARCO, Dow Chemical, Georgia Pacific, Martin Marietta, the
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Tobacco Institute, the Petroleum Institute, etc.</p>
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<p>ITEM: Clinton became the media-designated "front-runner'' in
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<p>ITEM: <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Clinton</span> became the media-designated "front-runner'' in
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large part because he raised so much money early in the
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campaign. The cash didn't come from middle-class folks.
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As reported by the weekly In These Times, most of it
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came from conservative business interests; investment
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bankers, corporate lobbyists and Wall Street firms which
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fund both major political parties.</p>
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<p>ITEM: Two of Clinton's key fund-raisers were Robert Barry,
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<p>ITEM: Two of <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Clinton</span>'s key fund-raisers were Robert Barry,
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a longtime General Electric lobbyist, and Thomas H. Boggs
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Jr., who ears $1.5 million a year as a lawyer-lobbyist
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for the Washington firm of Patton, Boggs, and Blow.
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legislation is pending before Congress.</p>
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<p>ITEM: The Boggs law firm also boasts partner Ron Brown,
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chair of the Democratic Party. Some pundits have suggested
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that since Brown in an <span class="NORP" title="NORP">African</span>-American, the Clinton-Gore
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that since Brown in an <span class="NORP" title="NORP">African</span>-American, the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Clinton</span>-Gore
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ticket has less need of Jesse Jackson to mobilize the
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black vote in November. But Ron Brown is far more familiar
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with corporate boardrooms and government corridors than
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