Word: hofeld
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victory," says veteran feminist Betty Friedan, "so now it seems like an augury of things to come." But was it? Braun, a strong supporter of abortion rights, owed her victory less to women's anger than to the arrogance and myopia of her rivals. Both Dixon and challenger Al Hofeld, a lawyer, found Braun so insignificant -- perhaps because she was a woman, perhaps because she was black -- that they ignored her. While they knocked each other out, she finished first with 38% of the vote...
...women around the country, Carol Moseley Braun was outraged at how the white, clubby, male-dominated Senate handled Anita Hill's sexual- harassment charges against Thomas. Braun decided to do something about it. Last week the 44-year-old Cook County recorder of deeds beat Dixon and lawyer Al Hofeld for the Democratic nomination...
Braun's low-budget, grass-roots movement benefited from Hofeld's slick $5 million campaign, which attacked Dixon as a backslapping political hack. While Hofeld and Dixon split the white male vote, Braun edged past them, with strong support from blacks and women providing the margin of victory. If she wins the general election against Republican Richard Williamson, 42, a former Reagan Administration official, Braun will become the first black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate...