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Democratic Gadfly In Connecticut
Shapiro, Bruce | August 30, 1986 issue

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On July 19, Toby Moffett walked out of Connecticut's Democratic convention nearly alone and deeply shaken. Moffett's campaign was only the most recent skirmish in a slowly accelerating battle for the soul of Connecticut's Democratic Party, a challenge with national implications for left electoral strategy. Moffett, a former youth worker and community organizer who in four Congressional terms from 1974 to 1982 was the model of a charismatic, effective left-liberal legislative advocate, had entered the convention seeking the right to challenge Connecticut's conservative Democratic Governor, William O'Neill, to a primary.

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CONNECTICUT -- Politics & government; MOFFETT, Toby; POLITICIANS; POLITICAL parties; CONGRESSES & conventions; CONNECTICUT; UNITED States
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