Word: braun
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...SHOULD HAVE BEEN A TIME OF TRIumph. Carol Moseley-Braun, the newly elected Democratic Senator from Illinois, arrived last week to claim her place in history as the first African-American woman sworn into the Senate. Instead, Moseley-Braun faced a press corps asking pointed questions about her personal life and finances, and about allegations of sexual harassment made against her boyfriend and campaign manager, Kgosie Matthews. After her first week on Capitol Hill, she declared, "If this is a honeymoon, I'm going to divorce...
WOMEN HAVE GAINED HARD-WON GROUND IN THE SENATE THIS year, boosting their numbers from two to six. But the Senate clerk's office is still pretty slow on the uptake. When CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN, the newly elected Senator from Illinois, stopped by to get her photo I.D., her picture was snapped and for some reason she was handed a card emblazoned SPOUSE. The amused Senator handed it back, murmuring "Try again...
...CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN...
...record 11 women sought Senate seats. Five won (including an incumbent), bringing the number in that body to seven, from three. In Illinois, an obscure Cook County recorder of deeds, Carol Moseley Braun, rolled to victory in the primary over a Democratic incumbent who had supported Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, then won in the general election over an ex-Reagan official. Braun will be the first black woman Senator. California, with two seats open, chose establishment Democrat Dianne Feinstein and liberal firebrand Barbara Boxer. Once mocked as "a mom in tennis shoes," Washington state senator Patty Murray becomes...
Then there was the realization that women do not necessarily inhabit a loftier moral plane than the men they intend to dislodge. Illinois' Carol Moseley Braun got hit with Medicaid-fraud charges for failing to report a windfall that might have helped pay her mother's nursing-home bill. Yeakel was revealed to have paid $17,000 in back taxes on the eve of announcing her candidacy. Congresswoman Barbara Boxer had 143 bounced checks to account for. In the nastiest race of all, two New York feminists, Geraldine Ferraro and Elizabeth Holtzman, went down biting and clawing -- to make...