check out Simon Rosenberg's quote on being "ideologically freed from labor":
source:
http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V12/7/dreyfuss-r.html"The DLC's effort to win Meeks's vote was part of a vigorous campaign by New Democrats to assure legislators that business groups would replace campaign contributions from labor lost by a pro-business China vote. In The New Democrat, the DLC's monthly magazine, Washington's most powerful business lobbyist, Thomas J. Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, wrote that even though some members of Congress risked losing the AFL-CIO's support, "business will stick by Democrats on the China trade vote."
Simon Rosenberg, the former field director for the DLC who directs the New Democrat Network, a spin-off political action committee, says,
"We're trying to raise money to help them lessen their reliance on traditional interest groups in the Democratic Party. In that way," he adds, "they are ideologically freed, frankly, from taking positions that make it difficult for Democrats to win."
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