The mere thought of an election in which there are more than hand-picked-by-the-boss candidates must surely be concentrating a few minds in the boardroom.
Last year, her organisation not only trounced the bosses' candidate in a brutal battle for a seat on the San Jose city council.
Party bosses select candidates and have shown an increasing tendency to select their own relatives.
He noted that primaries were devised to give more of a voice to the rank and file, rather than having party bosses anoint candidates in back-room parleys.
The bosses supported candidates such as Speaker Reed, Senator Quay and former vice president Levi P. Morton of New York.
In nominating conventions long past, this was when the most powerful party bosses and candidates would meet behind closed doors -- in the so-called "smoke-filled room" where political deals are purportedly made -- to find a suitable candidate.
"I am unalterably opposed to a bunch of billionaires financing a boss to pick candidates in 50 states," Gingrich writes, casting Rove as the "boss" picking candidates through groups like American Crossroads.
I am unalterably opposed to a bunch of billionaires financing a boss to pick candidates in 50 states.
Party bosses pick the candidates.
When an Assembly seat came open in 1994, the county political boss pushed another candidate.
When I was an administrative assistant, my boss interviewed a candidate for a job.
