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Smith_3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 06:03 AM
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What is DLC? Why is Hillary a DLC candidate?
This is not a primaries thread, I just want to understand that statement.

I looked up DLC and found it means "Dual-listed Company" but I can't make the connection as to what exactly it means that someone is a
DLC candidate. What is special about a DLC?
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 06:05 AM
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1. Democratic Leadership Council
http://www.dlc.org/

The corporate whore wing of the Democratic party, aka Republican lite.
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Smith_3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 06:09 AM
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2. Thanks for the link.
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 06:12 AM
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3. Here's a wiki on the scoundrels...
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EmperorHasNoClothes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 07:04 AM
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4. Republicans pretending to be Democrats
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Clear Blue Sky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 08:07 AM
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5. Both parties have these types.
RINOs and DINOs...
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 08:09 AM
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6. here you go...
New Democrat Movement

GROUP

The right wing current of the Democratic party, characterized by its neoliberal economic policies, support of Israel, desire to increase defense spending, and links to heavy donors and fundraisers.

Believes that "left-wing" positions are not politically viable. Describes itself as "moderate and pro-growth". Probably responsible for erosion of the Democratic Party's historical labor and minority base due to support of treaties like NAFTA, lack of support for affirmative action and poverty programs, and their siphoning away of campaign funds from minority groups.

At the national level, the movement was founded by the Democratic Leadership Council (501c4 educational non-profit, founded 1984) and includes the House New Democrat Coalition (founded 1997), the Senate New Democrat Coalition (founded 2000), the New Democrat Network PAC (founded 1996), the misnamed Progressive Policy Institute (501c4 think tank, "Bill Clinton's idea mill", founded 1989), and the umbrella funding group The Third Way Foundation (501c3 non-profit, founded 1996).

Since coming to power within the Democratic Party with Bill Clinton's presidency, the New Democrats/DLC have worked towards "essentially the same purpose as the Christian Coalition... to pull a broad political party dramatically to the right" according to John Nichols of The Progressive.

DLC operatives actively worked to sabotage Howard Dean's candidacy for the US Presidency in 2004, claiming that the "far-left" Democrat was wrong to attack George W. Bush's tax cuts and national security policies.

Corporate contributors to the DLC and New Democratic Network include Bank One, Citigroup, Dow Chemical, DuPont, General Electric, Health Insurance Corporation of America, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Philip Morris, RJR Nabisco, Chevron, Prudential Foundation, Amoco Foundation, AT&T, Morgan Stanley, Occidental Petroleum, Raytheon, and many other Fortune 500 companies.

The New Democrat Movement is sometimes referred to as the Dixiecrat movement due to the DLC's origination in the southern states, their desire to get rid of affirmative action, and their membership's overwhelming whiteness.

"Democrats should shift the primary focus from racism, the traditional enemy without, to self-defeating patterns of behavior among blacks" --Chuck Robb, 2nd DLC Chairman, Governor & Senator of the Great State of Virginia, White Man, 1986.

"I'm from the democratic wing of the Democrat Party" --Paul Wellstone, progressive Democrat, criticizing the New Democrat Movement.

"Democrats for the Leadership Class" --Jesse Jackson, progressive black Democrat, describing the DLC.

Official Website:
http://www.ndol.org
http://www.nndb.com/group/269/000093987/
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