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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...
...charges were especially stinging because they involved the kind of indiscretions Moseley-Braun had campaigned against. The former Cook County recorder of deeds entered the Senate race in response to the Judiciary Committee's mishandling of Professor Anita Hill's sexual-harassment charges against Clarence Thomas. A compelling speaker with a winning smile, Moseley- Braun, the divorced mother of a 15-year-old son, became a media star. But as she swept to victory, she was criticized for poor judgment and a sloppy campaign...
...current problems mostly involve Matthews, with whom she became romantically involved during the campaign. The Chicago Sun-Times reported last month that two women who worked on the campaign accused Matthews of asking them to go out with him; when they refused, he treated them harshly, they said. Moseley-Braun hired a lawyer to investigate the allegations, which proved groundless, she said last week...
Other questions linger. While Moseley-Braun's campaign is more than $400,000 in debt and most staff members went unpaid for weeks, Matthews received a $15,000-a-month salary through Nov. 15. Moseley-Braun tried to put some of her former campaign staff members on the government payroll by giving them jobs at the Cook County recorder's office; after her successor complained, she admitted she had made a mistake...
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...