Shun Special Interest Tag to Win, Robb Advises Democrats
The Democratic Party must avoid being labeled again as a captive of special interests if it hopes to win the presidency in 1988, former Virginia Gov. Charles Robb said today at a party strategy session on next year’s Super Tuesday primaries.
Robb, a founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, which is sponsoring the two-day summit ending today, said he hopes the council will “shift the political debate from more parochial issues to those issues of central concern to all Americans.”
“If our party’s platform becomes a hodgepodge of special pleading . . . then we will almost certainly be very disappointed next Nov. 9,” he said.
The council has billed Super Tuesday as a chance to increase moderate and conservative influence in the party. On March 8, 1988, there will be presidential primaries or caucuses in 20 states.
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