Word: arlen
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...ghost of Dick Thornburgh haunting Arlen Specter? The two-term Pennsylvania Senator, now standing for re-election, has been running into some mighty irritated women voters on the campaign trail. Many are still miffed over his treatment of Anita Hill during the Thomas hearings. Specter wanted to clear that up by making a commercial stating that he is not a sexist, but wiser heads on his campaign staff talked him out of it. On top of that, he's been getting no respect from potential voters watching JFK in Pennsylvania movie theaters. When it is mentioned in the film that...
...Those like Senator [Arlen] Specter (R-Penn.), who saw their role as defender of Clarence Thomas, had no fear of embarrassing themselves," he said...
Pennsylvania hasn't had a Democratic senator in 26 years. Arlen Specter, who holds the other Pennsylvania Senate seat, made headlines recently sitting on the confirmation committee at the Clarence Thomas hearings. He's the one who asked Anita Hill the brilliant questions about a hypothetical situation, and then asked Hill if she would have remembered a situation like that had it actually happened. He is also the senator who chided Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) about Chappaquiddick during the final floor speeches of the confirmation debate...
...angry enough to do the hard things, to be single- minded and do the things that need to be done to play to win?" asked Emily Tynes, a Washington consultant to liberal groups. And what does playing to win mean? Does it mean targeting Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, who voted for Thomas but is pro-choice...
...showing a constituent, a defense contractor or a contributor around. In a Senate dining room, a young aide delivering papers to her boss was asked to remove her jacket so that a constituent could get a better look. She did. To someone operating in that atmosphere, perhaps, as Senator Arlen Specter said at Friday's hearing, talk of "women's large breasts" hardly seems such a big deal...