Wealthy voters who would once have been country-club Republicans are turning up in the Democratic Leadership Council, says Mrs Laszlo-Mizrahi.

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The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) has been challenging old-fashioned liberalism since 1985.

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Does the Democratic Leadership Council--the centrist policy factory whose founders in 1985 included an Arkansas governor who later wound up in the White House--benefit mainly Democrats or the whole country?

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Ford is trying to cozy up to the moderate the Democratic Leadership council wing of the Democratic party, but it is still a tough order for a Democratic - an African American Democrat to win state wide in Tennessee.

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His role as chairman of the moderate Democratic Leadership Council, has led to the election of many centrist democrats into public office under his "New Democrat" campaign slogan.

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Evan Bayh of Indiana, a former head of the moderate Democratic Leadership Council, appearing at an anti-Wal-Mart rally on Tuesday.

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Marshall, founder of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council.

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As an example of the sort of senator that progressives ought not worry about losing, I cited Bayh, a longtime leader of the pro-corporate Democratic Leadership Council, which has for the better part of a quarter century worked to turn the Democratic Party into a kinder, gentler version of the GOP.

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Hsia has been an active Democratic fund-raiser since the late 1980's when she headed the Los Angeles-based Pacific Leadership Council, a group of Asian-American contributors.

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