Word: arnesen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DEBORAH ARNESEN (D) District 2 (West--Concord; Nashua...
While women made breakthroughs in national races, all three who entered gubernatorial contests bumped up against glass ceilings. In New Hampshire, Democrat Deborah ("Arnie") Arnesen lost to former attorney general Steve Merrill after she called for a 6% income tax in a state that has never taxed income. In Rhode Island, Governor Bruce Sundlun trounced Republican Elizabeth Leonard, a car dealer making her first run for office. And Democrat Dorothy Bradley, a Montana state legislator, narrowly lost to attorney general Marc Racicot...
Bisson says the decision not to offer Arnesen tenure was based on reservations expressed by some members of the department about Arnesen's work, including his newly published book, Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics 1863-1923, which won the James H. Dunning Prize...
...Arnesen says this emphasis on scholars pursuing traditional fields has "made the department safe for conservatism" at the expense of progress...
...liberal has managed to make it through the sacred gates of tenure in decades," says Arnesen...