Hillary Clinton to Chart Centrist Democratic Agenda (NPR 2005)

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Hillary Clinton to Chart Centrist Democratic Agenda

By Alex Chadwick - JULY 26, 2005 12:00 AM ET

Alex Chadwick talks with Bruce Reed, a former aide to President Bill Clinton, about this week's meeting of the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist party organization. The group has appointed Hillary Clinton to define a party agenda for the upcoming 2006 and 2008 elections.

ALEX CHADWICK, host:

Political news. Meeting in Ohio, several hundred centrist Democrats have chosen New York Senator Hillary Clinton to formulate a set of policies the party can take into national elections for Congress next year and for control of the White House in 2008. The group that met in Columbus is called the Democratic Leadership Council. Its president and co-founder is Bruce Reed. He was domestic policy adviser to Senator Clinton's husband, Bill Clinton, when he was president. Mr. Reed's now writing a column for Slate magazine called The Has-Been.

Bruce Reed, welcome to DAY TO DAY.

Why Hillary Clinton to undertake this task for the moderate, centrist Democratic Leadership Council?

BRUCE REED (Slate; Co-founder, Democratic Leadership Council): Well, Senator Clinton has been an intellectual leader in the party for many years, and she's been involved with the DLC for a couple of decades now, so she was a natural choice to head up this effort to reach out to Democrats of all stripes and thinkers throughout the party to come up with a positive agenda for the country.

CHADWICK: But doesn't she have a reputation for being on the liberal end of the party?

REED: Well, I wouldn't say that. I think--you know, I've known her for 15 years and she's a Clinton Democrat from the get-go. She's always been quite culturally conservative. I worked with her on welfare reform. She did a number of things in the '90s that didn't get that much attention, like making it easier for adoption and reforming the child welfare system. She's always been a budget hawk. So despite the caricature that conservatives would like to stick on her, I think she is a natural for this...

Full article:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4771471

More information on who helped fund the DLC:

The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was co-founded in 1985 by Will Marshall, who served as its first Policy Director and who is the founder and President of DLC's think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute. DLC counts among its past chairs former President Bill Clinton, Congressman Richard Gephardt, and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman. [1] Current chairman is Senator Harold Ford.

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An August, 2000 Newsweek story on Joe Lieberman, The Soul And The Steel[1] reveals that some of the early funding came from ARCO, Chevron, Merck, Du Pont, Microsoft, Philip Morris and Koch Industries:

Source:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_Leadership_Council

[Trajan]

1. Yeah ...

Exactly ...

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. There WAS a DNC and a DLC...

If elected...you were representing both groups. They are not 2 different distinct parties...

[UglyGreed]

4. DNC, DLC

New Democrats, Third Way, why worry I'm a progressive......for now

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[think]

6. The DLC was a think tank like Third Way. It was not an official part of the Democratic party.

Like the DNC.

Democratic Leadership Council

The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was a non-profit 501(c)(4) corporation[1] founded in 1985 that, upon its formation, argued the United States Democratic Party should shift away from the leftward turn it took in the late 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The DLC hailed President Bill Clinton as proof of the viability of Third Way politicians and as a DLC success story.

The DLC's affiliated think tank is the Progressive Policy Institute. Democrats who adhere to the DLC's philosophy often call themselves New Democrats. This term is also used by other groups who have similar views on where the party should go in the future, like NDN[2] and Third Way.[3]

On February 7, 2011, Politico reported that the DLC would dissolve, and would do so as early as the following week.[4] On July 5 of that year, DLC founder Al From announced in a statement on the organization's website that the historical records of the DLC have been purchased by the Clinton Foundation.[5] The DLC's last chairman was former Representative Harold Ford of Tennessee, and its vice chair was Senator Thomas R. Carper of Delaware. Its CEO was Bruce Reed...

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council

[Scuba]

3. "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

[ibegurpard]

5. She has evolved

Pay no attention to her past record and rhetoric...

[misterhighwasted]

7. oh my, Past record & rhetoric. Well there's a few issues about bernies

Past rhetoric & record, since this seems to be the week for vetting ala Ben Carson.
There's a very concerning paper bernie wrote as an adult, and there's that F-35 contract, but those belong in another OP.

"She has evolved

Pay no attention to her past record and rhetoric... "

Seems its bernie himself now defending Carson's past from scrutiny.
I just never know whose past we are allowed to scrutinize & who demands it remain hidden from public view.

[AgingAmerican]

8. Projection

nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Well, she recently admitted she was guilty of being a moderate.

Which would make her Not Guilty of being a liberal or progressive.