Political Operatives Forcing Democrats Off Ballots

[wyldwolf]

The day after New Year's 1996, operatives for the DLC filed into a barren hearing room of the Board of Election Commissioners.

There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of a longtime progressive activist from the city's South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of their four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.

[MaineDem]

1. Sources?

And isn't this past tense?

[wyldwolf]

2. ooops! I got it all wrong

This story isn't about the DLC, it's about someone doing what the DLC is always accused of doing.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070403obama-ballot,1,4762574,print.story?ctrack=2&cset=true

But I admire this trait in him.

[MaineDem]

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