Daily Kos: McGovern Drops out of The Progressive Anniversary Event

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/22/723235/-McGovern-Drops-out-of-The-Progressive-Anniversary-Event

by Patrick Crowley
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Wed Apr 22, 2009 at 01:30:21 PM PDT

I have just been informed that Former US Senator George McGovern has cancelled his appearance at The Progressive magazine's 100th anniversary celebration in May. According to sources at the magazine, the Senator cited a "scheduling conflict" for his reason for cancelling his appearance.

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As I posted HERE, McGovern broke with the labor movement this past summer by writing an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal against the Employee Free Choice Act. He parroted the anti-EFCA line claiming the act would eliminate the right of workers to have a secret ballot vote as an option to join a union. It would not: it would give the option for a vote to the workers where it is currently the option of the boss.

[kestrel91316]

1. Wait - George McGovern is STILL ALIVE??? He must be about 95 now....

[elleng]

2. Born July, 1922 makes him 85.

During the 1968 Democratic Convention, a motion was passed to establish a commission to reform the Democratic Party nomination process.<7> In 1969, McGovern was named chairman of the Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection; due to the influence of former McCarthy and Kennedy supporters on the staff, the commission significantly reduced the role of party officials and insiders in the nomination process, increased the role of caucuses and primaries, and mandated quotas for proportional black, women, and youth delegate representation.<8>

The fundamental principle of the McGovern Commission— that primaries should determine the winner of the Democratic nomination— lasted throughout every subsequent nomination contest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern