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Moreover, women with political ambitions may not have to worry so much about seeming presumptuous; the uppitiness factor should fade. Maureen O'Connor has served on the San Diego City Council and as Deputy Mayor, Chairwoman of the Local Transit Board and Vice Chairwoman of a California State Housing Finance Agency. She ran for mayor of San Diego last year and lost. "Despite the fact that I was twice as qualified as my opponent," she says, "there were reservations voiced about the capacity of a woman to manage a city of this size effectively. Well, with a woman...
...major conservation groups. But instead of a fence-mending meeting, the President got a showering of Third of July fireworks. The cause: his announcement the previous day that he was appointing Anne Burford, who was forced to resign last year as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, as chairwoman of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. Emerging from the stormy 90-minute session, Jay Hair, executive vice president of the National Wildlife Federation, blasted the President for having made the Burford appointment "casually and carelessly and arrogantly...
Hart and Mondale have both made enthusiastic noises about the idea of a female running mate, but naturally enough, neither has made any commitment. Hart frequently mentions that he has picked Schroeder, his campaign co-chairwoman, to head his vice-presidential search force, and adds: "You can bet that there will be several well-qualified women on the list she draws up." Says Schroeder (who could not run with Hart because she is from the same state): "The odds are getting better [for a woman] because the polls are starting to show that a woman would actually help the ticket...
...more peripheral and personal matters, however, the campaign is downright nasty. "We knew it would be hateful and mean and expensive," says Betty McCain, Hunt's campaign chairwoman. Helms began a TV, radio and mail attack more than a year ago. It accuses Hunt of waffling on issues and tries to goad him into taking a stand for or against the presidential candidacy of Jesse Jackson. Hunt, wisely, has not yet done so, since he would lose votes no matter what position he took. Helms' aim is to portray Hunt as a tool of out-of-state liberals...
...caucus in a Des Moines school the chairwoman initially counted "35-ish for Mondale, 30-plus for McGovern" University of Northern Iowa History Professor Charles Quirk, Brian's father, thinks the inexact, homespun democracy is terrific. People criticize the caucuses as a meaningless media show," he says "But it s a civics lesson for us all. Both the politicians and the people are better...