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...California alone, 14 women jumped into campaigns: for Governor, lieutenant governor, state treasurer and insurance commissioner, and the mayoral races in Berkeley and San Jose. Five women ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and two for California secretary of state. Says Los Angeles City Councilwoman Joy Picus: "Women have been helping men get elected for years. We just decided to do it for ourselves...
...system is 81% white, are resisting entreaties to merge with Greensboro (51% black) and High Point (50% black) schools. Greensboro delayed significant desegregation and busing for years, and now many parents -- black and white -- wonder whether the mixing has worked. "I'm not saying integration was wrong," says Greensboro councilwoman Alma Adams, who is black, "but it did cause a lot of problems we didn't think about...
While Republican efforts to blame Quayle's problems on the press found some public resonance, there was notably little enthusiasm for the man. "He would not have been my first choice, or my choice at all," said Los Angeles Councilwoman Joan Milke Flores, a Republican. "If we could change the nominee . . . well, I regret it all." The same polls that showed Bush pulling even with, or slightly ahead of, Michael Dukakis also indicated skepticism about Quayle. An NBC/Wall Street Journal survey last week found that, by 2 to 1, voters preferred Lloyd Bentsen over Quayle as President...
Perhaps. But it can prevent the assembly from making any decision. California's most pressing issues -- $1,800 car-insurance premiums, traffic gridlock, school funding -- are increasingly debated not in the legislature but in a swarm of ballot initiatives. Los Angeles Councilwoman Gloria Molina, a former assemblywoman and staff deputy to Brown, observes that "Willie is so obsessed with raising money to defend his Democratic majority that he forgets all about the Democratic agenda...
...councilwoman said she was primarilyconcerned with the importance of women,particularly Hispanic women, as leaders...