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. My book <a href="https://amzn.com/1469627868" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945</a> (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) is the culmination of this particular research agenda.Conservative think tanks, like the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute, have had enormous success in shaping political ideas and policy over the last forty years.  But historian Jason Stahl argues that some of their greatest achievements have been in remaking the terrain on which historically liberal think tanks have operated on.  He reflects on the ways that the Democratic Party moved to the right in the 1990s, influenced by the Democratic Leadership Council’s think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute.  Stahl also discusses the power of ideas amongst white supremacists, as illustrated by the appeal of Richard Spencer, of the far right National Policy Institute think tank.---http://www.cehd.umn.edu/OLPD/people/faculty/stahl.asp
The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was a non-profit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(4)" class="mw-redirect" title="501(c)(4)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">501(c)(4)</a> corporation<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> founded in 1985 that, upon its formation, argued the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Democratic Party</a>should shift away from the leftward turn it took in the late 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. One of its main purposes was to win back white middle class voters with ideas that addressed their concerns.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> The DLC hailed President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a> as proof of the viability of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way" title="Third Way" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Third Way</a> politicians and as a DLC success story.The DLC's affiliated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">think tank</a> is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Policy_Institute" title="Progressive Policy Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Progressive Policy Institute</a>. Democrats who adhere to the DLC's philosophy often call themselves <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrats" title="New Democrats" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Democrats</a>. This term is also used by other groups who have similar views on where the party should go in the future, like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrat_Network" title="New Democrat Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NDN</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way(think_tank)" title="Third Way (think tank)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Third Way</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a>On February 7, 2011, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico" title="Politico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Politico</a> reported that the DLC would dissolve, and would do so as early as the following week.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> On July 5 of that year, DLC founder <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_From" title="Al From" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Al From</a>announced in a statement on the organization's website that the historical records of the DLC have been purchased by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation" title="Clinton Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Clinton Foundation</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> The DLC's last chairman was former Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ford,Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Harold Ford, Jr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harold Ford</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tennessee</a>, and its vice chair was Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_R.Carper" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas R. Carper" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Thomas R. Carper</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Delaware</a>. Its CEO was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Reed(political_operative)" title="Bruce Reed (political operative)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bruce Reed</a>.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2>  [<a role="button" tabindex="0" class="togglelink" style="background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#Founding_and_early_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Founding and early history</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#Positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Positions</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#2003_invasion_of_Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.12003 invasion of Iraq</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#Criticism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Criticism</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#Electoral_and_political_success" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Electoral and political success</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#2004_Presidential_primary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">52004 Presidential primary</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#2008_Presidential_primary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">62008 Presidential primary</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#Chairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7Chairs</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#Republican_equivalent" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8Republican equivalent</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">10References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">11External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Founding and early history[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democratic_Leadership_Council&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Founding and early history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>The DLC was founded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_From" title="Al From" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Al From</a> in 1985 in the wake of Democratic candidate and former Vice President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Walter Mondale</a>'s landslide defeat by incumbent President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1984" title="United States presidential election, 1984" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1984 presidential election</a>. Other founders include Democratic Governors <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Robb" title="Chuck Robb" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chuck Robb</a> (Virginia), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Babbitt" title="Bruce Babbitt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bruce Babbitt</a> (Arizona) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawton_Chiles" title="Lawton Chiles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lawton Chiles</a> (Florida), Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Nunn" title="Sam Nunn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sam Nunn</a> (Georgia) and Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Gephardt" title="Dick Gephardt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dick Gephardt</a> (Missouri).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-rae-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a>The model on which the Democratic Leadership Council was built was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_for_a_Democratic_Majority" title="Coalition for a Democratic Majority" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Coalition for a Democratic Majority</a>. Founded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M.Jackson" title="Henry M. Jackson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">"Scoop" Jackson</a> Democrats in response to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George McGovern</a>'s massive loss to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Nixon</a>in 1972, the CDM was dismayed by two presidential election losses and the organization's goal was to steer the party away from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left" title="New Left" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Left</a> influence that had permeated the Democratic party since the late 1960s and back to the policies that made the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal_coalition" title="New Deal coalition" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">FDR coalition</a> electorally successful for close to 40 years. Although Senator Jackson declined to endorse the organization, believing the timing was <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/4484181.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"inappropriate"</a>, future DLC founders and early members were involved, such as Sen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Nunn" title="Sam Nunn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sam Nunn</a> and Sen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Robb" title="Chuck Robb" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charles S. Robb</a>.In the early 1980s, some of the youngest members of Congress, including Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H.Gray(Pennsylvania_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="William H. Gray (Pennsylvania politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William Gray</a> of Pennsylvania, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wirth" title="Tim Wirth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tim Wirth</a> of Colorado, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Al Gore</a> of Tennessee, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gephardt" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Gephardt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Gephardt</a> of Missouri, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillis_Long" class="mw-redirect" title="Gillis Long" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gillis Long</a> of Louisiana helped found the House Democratic Caucus' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Committee_on_Party_Effectiveness.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Committee on Party Effectiveness. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on Party Effectiveness.</a> Formed by Long and his allies after the 1980 presidential election, the CPE hoped to become the main vehicle for the rejuvenation of the Democratic Party.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> The CPE has been called "the first organizational embodiment of the New Democrats."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a>The DLC started as a group of forty-three elected officials and two staffers, Al From and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Marshall" title="Will Marshall" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Will Marshall</a>, and shared their predecessor's goal of reclaiming the Democratic Party from the left's influence prevalent since the late 1960s. Their original focus was to secure the 1988 presidential nomination of a southern conservative Democrat such as Nunn or Robb. After the success of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson" title="Jesse Jackson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jesse Jackson</a>, a vocal critic of the DLC, in winning a number of southern states in 1988's "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Tuesday" title="Super Tuesday" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Super Tuesday</a>" primary, the group began to shift its focus towards influencing public debate. In 1989, Marshall founded the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank which has since turned out policy blueprints for the DLC. Its most extensive series of papers is the series of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.neweconomyindex.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">New Economy Policy Reports</a>.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Positions[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democratic_Leadership_Council&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>It is the opinion of the DLC that economic populism is not politically viable, citing the defeated Presidential campaigns of Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George McGovern</a> in 1972 and Vice-President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Walter Mondale</a> in 1984. The DLC states that it "seeks to define and galvanize popular support for a new public philosophy built on progressive ideals, mainstream values, and innovative, non-bureaucratic, market-based solutions."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a>The DLC has supported <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_reform" title="Welfare reform" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">welfare reform</a>, such as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a> President Clinton's expansion of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_Income_Tax_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="Earned Income Tax Credit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Earned Income Tax Credit</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a> and the creation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmeriCorps" title="AmeriCorps" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">AmeriCorps</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a> The DLC supports expanded health insurance via tax credits for the uninsured and opposes plans for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_universal_health_care" class="mw-redirect" title="Single-payer universal health care" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">single-payer universal health care</a>. The DLC supports universal access to preschool, charter schools, and measures to allow a greater degree of choice in schooling (though not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_vouchers" class="mw-redirect" title="School vouchers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">school vouchers</a>), and supports the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act" title="No Child Left Behind Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">No Child Left Behind Act</a>. The DLC supports both the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement" title="North American Free Trade Agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">North American Free Trade Agreement</a> (NAFTA) and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America_Free_Trade_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Central America Free Trade Agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Central America Free Trade Agreement</a> (CAFTA).The DLC has both supported and criticized the policies of President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>. The DLC opposed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_birth_abortion" class="mw-redirect" title="Partial birth abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">partial birth abortion</a> ban, the expiration of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban" title="Federal Assault Weapons Ban" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1994 assault weapon ban</a>, the Clear Skies Initiative, and what they perceived as a lack of funding of the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program. In 2001 the DLC endorsed the idea of tax cuts for the middle class, but opposed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_tax_cut" class="mw-redirect" title="Bush tax cut" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bush tax cut</a> since it favored the wealthy and was perceived by the DLC as fiscally irresponsible. The organization supports some forms of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security(United_States)" title="Social Security (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Social Security</a> privatization but opposes financing private retirement accounts with large amounts of borrowed money.In 2006, the DLC also urged Senate Democrats to vote against Bush's nomination of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alito" title="Samuel Alito" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Samuel Alito</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Supreme Court</a> "on principle", but firmly opposed any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster" title="Filibuster" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">filibuster</a> of the nominee.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2003 invasion of Iraq[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democratic_Leadership_Council&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 2003 invasion of Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>The DLC gave strong support for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2003 invasion of Iraq</a>. Prior to the war, Marshall Wittmann, Sen. Joe Lieberman's press secretary and a senior fellow with Will Marshall's DLC-affiliated Progressive Policy Institute think tank, co-signed a letter to President Bush from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century" title="Project for the New American Century" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Project for the New American Century</a> endorsing military action against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Saddam Hussein</a>. During the 2004 Primary campaign, Wittmann attacked Presidential candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean" title="Howard Dean" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Howard Dean</a> as an out-of-touch liberal because of Dean's anti-war stance. Wittmann dismissed other critics of the Iraq invasion such as filmmaker <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moore" title="Michael Moore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Moore</a> as members of the "loony left".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a>Even as domestic support for the Iraq War plummeted in 2004 and 2005, DLC co-founder Will Marshall called upon Democrats to balance their criticism of Bush's handling of the Iraq War with praise for the president's achievements and cautioned "Democrats need to be choosier about the political company they keep, distancing themselves from the pacifist and anti-American fringe."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Criticism</h2>The DLC has become unpopular within many progressive and liberal political circles such as the organizations <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_American_Progress" title="Center for American Progress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Center for American Progress</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_for_America" title="Democracy for America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democracy for America</a>, and the blog <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyDD" title="MyDD" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">MyDD</a>.Some critics claim the strategy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation(politics)" title="Triangulation (politics)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">triangulation</a> between the political left and right to gain broad appeal is fundamentally flawed. In the long run, so opponents say, this strategy has resulted in concession after concession to the opposition and promotion of a free-market economic agenda favorable to corporations and entrepreneurs, including those seeking to privatize public services, while alienating traditionally-allied voters and working-class people.Other critics cite that the low turnout of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_labor" class="mw-redirect" title="Organized labor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">organized labor</a> in the 1994 election after Bill Clinton signed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement" title="North American Free Trade Agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">North American Free Trade Agreement</a> into law resulted in the Republican Party gaining a majority in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,1994" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 1994" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1994 House of Representatives elections</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,1994" title="United States Senate elections, 1994" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1994 Senate elections</a> that would last for twelve years until 2006.Author and columnist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sirota" title="David Sirota" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David Sirota</a> has strongly criticized the DLC, who he claims have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selling_out" title="Selling out" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">sold out</a> to corporate interests. In 1980, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic National Committee</a> (DNC) founded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democratic_Business_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Democratic Business Council (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic Business Council</a> to compete with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican National Committee</a> for donations from businesses and corporations. Sirota has also argued that the term "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrism" title="Centrism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">centrist</a>" is a misnomer in that these politicians are out of touch with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion" title="Public opinion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">public opinion</a>. Sirota's article "The Democrats' Da Vinci Code" argues that truly progressive politicians are more successful in so-called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states" title="Red states and blue states" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">red states</a>" than the mainstream media have previously reported.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a>Others contend that the DLC's distaste for what they refer to as "economic class warfare" has allowed the language of populism to be monopolized by the right-wing. Many argue that the Democrats' abandonment of populism to the right-wing, shifting the form of that populism from the economic realm to the "culture wars", has been critical for Republican dominance of Middle America. (See, for instance, Thomas Frank's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_Matter_with_Kansas%3F" title="What's the Matter with Kansas?" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">What's the Matter with Kansas?</a>.)Still other critics believe the DLC has essentially become an influential corporate and right-wing implant in the Democratic party. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Wittmann" title="Marshall Wittmann" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Marshall Wittmann</a>, a former senior fellow at the DLC, former legislative director for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Coalition_of_America" title="Christian Coalition of America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christian Coalition</a>, and former communications director for Republican senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John McCain</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Marshall" title="Will Marshall" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Will Marshall</a>, a vocal supporter of the war in Iraq, are among those associated with the DLC who have right-wing credentials.Finally, detractors of the DLC note that the DLC has received funding from the right-wing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Foundation" title="Bradley Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bradley Foundation</a> as well as from oil companies, military contractors, and various Fortune 500 companies. However, the DNC proper has also benefited from funding by corporations like these via the Democratic Business Council.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Electoral and political success[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democratic_Leadership_Council&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Electoral and political success" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>A Gallup poll of Democratic National Committee members (in February 2005) showed that, by more than two-to-one (52%-23%) the DNC members wanted the party to become more moderate, rather than more liberal. That view was shared by Democrats nationally; in a January 2005 survey, Gallup found that 59% of Democrats wanted the party to take a more moderate course.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a>Although progressive critics argue the DLC's centrism has led the Democratic party to multiple electoral defeats, DLC candidates, office holders, and their moderate policies have been generally favored by the American electorate. When the Democratic party won majority status in the Senate in 1986, it was done with centrist and DLC affiliated candidates Barbara Mikulski (a participant in the DLC's National Service Tour), Harry Reid (who recently said Democrats have to "swallow their pride" and move toward the middle), Conservative Democrat Richard Shelby, DLCer Bob Graham, DLCer Kent Conrad, and DLCer Tom Daschle. When Bill Clinton, former Chairman of the DLC, made up his mind to run for the presidency in 1992, the DLC spotted the right candidate to promote its mission.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a> ran his 1992 and 1996 campaigns as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="New Democrat" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Democrat</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a>and (prior to Obama's 2012 presidential re-election) became the only twice elected Democratic president since President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D.Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>. New Democrats made significant gains in both the 2006 midterms and the 2008 elections.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a> While explicitly denying any direct connection to the DLC in 2003,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a> in May 2009 President Obama reportedly declared to the House New Democrat Coalition, "I am a New Democrat."<sup id="cite_ref-Obama:.27I_am_a_New_Democrat.27.2C_JONATHAN_MARTIN.26_CAROL_E.LEE.2C_3.2F10.2F09_7:04_PM_EST.2C_Updated:3.2F11.2F09_9:55_AM_EST_24-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-Obama:.27I_am_a_New_Democrat.27.2C_JONATHAN_MARTIN.26_CAROL_E.LEE.2C_3.2F10.2F09_7:04_PM_EST.2C_Updated:3.2F11.2F09_9:55_AM_EST-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a>Some political analysts like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Baer" title="Kenneth Baer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kenneth Baer</a> contend the DLC embodies the spirit of Truman-Kennedy era Democrats and were vital to the Democratic party's resurgence after the election losses of liberals <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George McGovern</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Walter Mondale</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis" title="Michael Dukakis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Dukakis</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Rosenberg" title="Simon Rosenberg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Simon Rosenberg</a>, a long time Democratic campaign operative and strategist, said recently, "there is a strong argument to be made that the DLC has been the most influential think tank in American politics over the past generation... the DLC helped set in motion a period of party modernization that has helped the Democratic Party overcome the potent and ultimately ruinous rise of the New Right."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">2004 Presidential primary</h2>In May 2003, as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_nomination,2004" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party presidential nomination, 2004" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic primary</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.presidential_election,2004" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. presidential election, 2004" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2004 presidential campaign</a> was starting to pick up, the organization voiced concern that the Democratic contenders might be taking positions too far left of the mainstream general electorate. Early front-runner <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean" title="Howard Dean" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Howard Dean</a>, who attracted popular support due in large part to his anti-war views despite his reputation as a centrist governor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vermont</a>, was specifically criticized by DLC founder and CEO Al From. From's criticism of Dean was also likely due to the former governor's opposition to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iraq War</a>, which most party centrists, including From, endorsed. Dean's claim to hail "from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party" (a phrase originally used by Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wellstone" title="Paul Wellstone" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paul Wellstone</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Minnesota</a>) has been interpreted by some as subtle(?) criticism of the DLC and the New Democrats in general. Indeed, Dean once described the DLC as the "Republican wing of the Democratic Party." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a> The DLC countered that Dean represented the "McGovern-Mondale wing" of the Democratic Party, "defined principally by weakness abroad and elitist, interest-group liberalism at home."Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Kerry</a> won the Democratic primary and chose primary contender Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards" title="John Edwards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Edwards</a> as his running mate. Both Senators were members of the Senate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrat_Coalition" title="New Democrat Coalition" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Democrat Coalition</a>, and the DLC anticipated that they would win the general election. In a March 3, 2004 dispatch, they suggested voters would appreciate Kerry's centrist viewpoints, imagining voters to say "If this is a waffle, bring on the syrup." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">2008 Presidential primary</h2>The 2008 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)presidential_primaries,2008" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Democratic Primary</a> pitted New York Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Hillary Clinton</a>, a prominent DLC member, against Illinois Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Barack Obama</a>, who had previously stated that his positions on NAFTA, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Iraq War</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care" title="Universal health care" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">universal health care</a> made him "an unlikely candidate for membership in the DLC."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a> However, President Obama has since surrounded himself with DLC members, appointing Clinton herself as Secretary of State. In May 2009, President Obama reportedly declared to the House New Democrat Coalition, the congressional arm of the DLC, "I am a New Democrat."<sup id="cite_ref-Obama:.27I_am_a_New_Democrat.27.2C_JONATHAN_MARTIN.26_CAROL_E.LEE.2C_3.2F10.2F09_7:04_PM_EST.2C_Updated:3.2F11.2F09_9:55_AM_EST_24-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-Obama:.27I_am_a_New_Democrat.27.2C_JONATHAN_MARTIN.26_CAROL_E.LEE.2C_3.2F10.2F09_7:04_PM_EST.2C_Updated:3.2F11.2F09_9:55_AM_EST-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a> President Obama has also called himself a progressive, in addition to being endorsed by Howard Dean's progressive political action committee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_for_America" title="Democracy for America" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Democracy for America</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman" title="Joe Lieberman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joe Lieberman</a>, another notable member of the DLC, endorsed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a> Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John McCain</a> for the presidency in 2008, citing his agreement with McCain's stance on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism" class="mw-redirect" title="War on Terrorism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">War on Terrorism</a> as the primary reason for his support.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a> Later in the campaign, Lieberman was mentioned as a possible Vice Presidential nominee for John McCain's ticket.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a> However, Lieberman denied any interest in this role<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a> and Alaska Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sarah Palin</a> was ultimately selected to be McCain's running mate.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Chairs[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democratic_Leadership_Council&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Chairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rep. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Gephardt" title="Dick Gephardt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dick Gephardt</a> of Missouri (1985–1986)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Gov. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Robb" title="Chuck Robb" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chuck Robb</a> of Virginia (1986–1988)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Nunn" title="Sam Nunn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sam Nunn</a> of Georgia (1988–1990)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Gov. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a> of Arkansas (1990–1991)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Breaux" title="John Breaux" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Breaux</a> of Louisiana (1991–1993)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rep. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McCurdy" title="Dave McCurdy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dave McCurdy</a> of Oklahoma (1993–1995)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman" title="Joe Lieberman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joe Lieberman</a> of Connecticut (1995–2001)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Bayh" title="Evan Bayh" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Evan Bayh</a> of Indiana (2001–2005)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Gov. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Vilsack" title="Tom Vilsack" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tom Vilsack</a> of Iowa (2005–2007)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Fmr. Rep. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ford" class="mw-redirect" title="Harold Ford" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harold Ford</a> of Tennessee (2007–2011)</li></ul>(Titles listed are those held at time of assuming chair.)<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Republican equivalent</h2>On the Republican side of the aisle another centrist organization was founded by moderate and some left of center Republicans with the same purpose for the Republican Party. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Leadership_Council" title="Republican Leadership Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican Leadership Council</a> was founded by former New Jersey Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Todd_Whitman" title="Christine Todd Whitman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christine Todd Whitman</a> and former Missouri Senator and Episcopal priest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Danforth" title="John Danforth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Danforth</a>.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">See also[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democratic_Leadership_Council&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; 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