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Article: Party's progress. (New Party)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- October 24, 1994
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Don't get them wrong, but New Party members have a healthy respect for the Christian Coalition. It's not that the labor union and community activists who form the left-leaning New Party's core admire the government-bashing or the antigay rhetoric generated by evangelist Pat Robertson's favorite political vehicle. But as Ellie Greenwood, New Party member from Missoula, Montana, says, "We've learned from the religious right that there are certain entry points into the system." One of more than 150 party activists from twelve states who gathered here over the weekend of September 23-25 for the New Party's first national leadership conference, Greenwood says "our job is to ...