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...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...
Three women were elected to the Senate,including the first Black woman, Democrat CarolMoseley Braun of Illinois...
...Senate, 6 triumphed yesterday evening. The name of the winner in each race appears in italics. ARIZONA Claire Sargent (D) 33% John McCain (R) inc. 55% CALIFORNIA Barbara Boxer (D) 47% Bruce Herschensohn (R) 43% CALIFORNIA Dianne Feinstein (D) 54% John Seymour (R) 30% ILLINOIS Carol Moseley Braun (D) 55% Richard Williamson 45% IOWA Jean Lloyd-Jones (D) 28% Charles E. Grassley (R) inc. 72% KANSAS Gloria O'Dell (D) 32% Robert Dole (R) inc. 64% MARYLAND Barbara Mikulski (D) inc. 71% Alan Keyes (R) 29% MISSOURI Geri Rothman-Serot (D) 46% Kit Bond (R) inc. 54% PENNSYLVANIA Lynn Yeakel...