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The Palsy of the CDC
Carney, Francis | May 4, 1970 issue

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California's Democratic Party club (CDC) movement apparently has reached the end of the line. In its exuberant youth, back in the mid fifties, the club movement was the most exciting and promising political participation game around. By 1960 there were in the state, about 400 local clubs with a combined enrollment of almost 100,000. These clubs were knit together, through a county and legislative district system, into the formidable California Democratic Council. Under California's election code, the CDC was an "auxiliary" party organization not, that is, an official organ of the Democratic Party, but in the peak years CDC and these clubs virtually controlled the party's nominating process at all levels of partisan elective office.

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POLITICAL participation; POLITICAL parties; CLUBS; POLITICAL movements; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; ELECTIONS
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