Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patricia Schroeder, 33. "If businesses were run the same way Congress is, the country would be shut down," says Colorado's freshman Representative. A Democrat, she is the first woman to be sent to Congress from her state. A former law instructor and attorney for the National Labor Relations Board Schroeder is a Portland, Ore., native, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years from the University of Minnesota and earned a Harvard doctorate. In her re-election campaign she is emphasizing the need for congressional reform, improved mass transit and better child-care facilities...
William S. Singer, 33. At the 1968 Democratic Convention Singer saw Chicago Mayor Richard Daley deliver the Illinois votes without polling the delegation. "I realized then that we had to work from the bottom up to bring out a more open political process." In a stunning upset, the independent Democrat was elected alderman in a strong machine ward...
...Carl Uhlman, 39, won election to Washington's state house of representatives while he was still in law school, served four terms before moving on to the state senate, and in 1969 became Seattle's mayor. An affable, attractive, moderately mod Democrat, he has begun refurbishing Seattle's waterfront Skid Row, started a free downtown bus system that has rejuvenated the area, and helped lead the city back from the economic doldrums of 1970. "I don't want to grow old in this job," Uhlman confesses, and with his appeal to voters and his ambition...
...Aspin, 35, went to Congress armed with an M.I.T. doctorate in economics and two years in the Office of Systems Analysis in Robert McNamara's Defense Department. The second-term Democrat from Wisconsin has waged an all-out war on military waste and cost overruns. He helped expose ballooning costs at Litton Industries' naval shipbuilding yards and mechanical troubles with Lockheed's C-5A cargo plane. Aspin also led the move that cut $1 billion from last year's Defense authorization and shot down flight pay for admirals and generals whose active flying days are behind...
...largely of families with annual incomes close to or below the official poverty mark ($4,550 for an urban family of four). An orphan who came to the mainland at eleven, Badillo earned degrees in accounting and law, in 1965 won a tight race for Bronx borough president. A Democrat, he was first elected to Congress in 1970. He has also run unsuccessfully in two mayoral primaries, and since his real interest is New York City, he can be expected to try again...