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DNC: Memories of the NYC parley, 20 years ago
Photo credit: Dan Janison
Bill Biamonte, the Democratic election commissioner in Nassau, who is part of the New York delegation in Charlotte, remembers a very different campaign in 1992 that culminated in the New York City convention that nominated Bill Clinton for president for the first time.
He was for Jerry Brown, the then-former California governor who was running as an underdog against Clinton. “We were reformers,”...
