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Despite her fellowship, Ferraro will only spend part of each week in Cambridge, she says. She is currently very involved in raising money for the Democratic Pary victory fund, which goes toward the campaign of the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee...
...going to go out to women's groups throughout the country to ask them to contribute to the fund, I kind of have to be in a position to ask supporters of Gov. [Michael S.] Dukakis, Sen. [Paul] Simon--I have to ask everybody. And I don't want to be in a position where I'm supporting just one candidate. So this will put me in a better position to raise money," Ferraro says...
Because she was no longer a candidate herself, Ferraro decided to help other women in their attempts to seek public office. In 1985, she formed Americans Concerned for Tomorrow Political Action Committee (ACTPAC), a political fund raising committee that concentrated on getting Democrats elected to Congress in 1986. The group focused its efforts on 10 women candidates for Congress, eight of whom were elected...
Turk submitted as evidence a letter from Walsh, which he said showed that the Coxes had planned to use two common ways of evading the rent control laws: separately buying units in order to rent them to each other, and buying property through a trust fund. According to the letter, Cynthia Cox had planned to live in the apartment that her brother bought, while her brother moved into hers. Each would then have paid rent to the other...
...Calif.: "There may have been a social contract that what you put in you got back, but not six times what you put in." Unless the system is revamped, he warns, when the baby boomers reach retirement age, Social Security will be in jeopardy. Just as alarming, the trust fund that supports the hospital-insurance part of Medicare could be bankrupt...