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That could prove to be an understatement. Brown, 61, is up against incumbent Frank Jordan, 60, a former police chief who came to office as a pro-business "non-politician," and Roberta Achtenberg, 45, a former Assistant Secretary of hud and lesbian activist who is hoping to tap into the city's sizable gay vote. The result is the most closely contested mayoral race in the nation. When voters go to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 7, they must choose among a low-key pragmatist like Jordan, a well-connected professional pol like Brown and a seasoned social activist like...
Jordan, a shy, soft-spoken man, still seems uncomfortable on the stump even after four years in office. But not Brown ("Slick Willie," as Jordan calls him), who leads all the candidates in endorsements--the major unions, many of the Democratic clubs ("Machine," Achtenberg says dismissively) and a healthy collection of ethnic organizations. Achtenberg, meanwhile, has issued a flood of position papers on everything from immigration to the environment. Her most inventive proposal: a council of neighborhoods that would give the city's diverse residents a voice in city hall...
...State George Shultz of "playing footsie with the communists." Last year, after debating Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, about the virtues of the Confederate flag, he said, "I'm going to sing Dixie to her until she cries." When Clinton nominated Roberta Achtenberg, a gay-rights activist, to a post at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Helms said, "She's not your garden-variety lesbian. She's a militant-activist-mean lesbian...
...religious right, Clinton is practically the Anti-Christ. During the campaign, they waved placards warning TO VOTE FOR BILL CLINTON IS TO SIN AGAINST GOD. More recently the Virginia-based Christian Action Network called on Clinton to "fire the four horsewomen of the apocalypse: Joycelyn Elders, Kristine Gebbie, Roberta Achtenberg and Jane Alexander" -- respectively, the Surgeon General, who advocates condom distribution to high school students; the National AIDS policy coordinator; the Assistant Secretary in the Housing and Urban Development Department and the first openly lesbian nominee to be confirmed by the Senate for a high office; and the actress Clinton...
Halperin is only the latest in a line of liberal Clinton nominees who have either been dumped outright or forced to sit on their hands while right-wing lawmakers fulminate and filibuster against their views. Roberta Achtenberg, Clinton's assistant secretary for fair housing, was kept from her job for months while North Carolina's Jesse Helms denounced her as a "showpiece of the homosexual movement." Meanwhile, Walter Dellinger, now an assistant Attorney General, was in limbo for six months because Helms and Lauch Faircloth, also of North Carolina, took offense at Dellinger's record of reasoned -- though pointedly liberal...