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Frank Hawkins '81, a Lowell House resident who voted in South Dakota, viewed the election returns with levity, saying, "I'm generally depressed but I'm happy I can drive 75 miles per hour again."
The much-publicized effort to put more women on Capitol Hill seemed to have fallen short. On the Senate side, Paula Hawkins, a Republican conservative from Florida, defeated former Congressman Bill Gunter in Florida, but Buchanan, Mary Louise Faust (Kentucky) and Mary Gojack (Nevada) all lost their Senate bids.
The two also resemble each other in personality. Gunter is feisty and blunt. During her years on the commission, Hawkins was a tart-tongued, self-styled "fighter," though she preferred to describe herself as a "Maitland housewife." But as accustomed as they are to a good scrap, the two candidates...
They attack each other only indirectly. Gunter has depicted himself as "someone with experience in public office," a thinly veiled reference to Hawkins' lack of legislative experience (Gunter served as a Congressman from 1973 to 1975). Hawkins tells audiences that "I come to this job with clean hands," an...
The candidates are running even, with the outcome probably hinging on the retired, mostly Jewish voters in the condominiums of Miami and the rest of southern Florida. In a state that has elected only one Republican to the Senate in this century, Hawkins must persuade these traditional Democrats that she...