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Speaker of the California Assembly Emeritus Willie Brown and former San Francisco City Supervisor and former Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) official Roberts Achtenberg are both campaigning to unseat Jordan...
Achtenberg, one of the nation's highest ranking lesbian politicians, is no less controversial: Her appointment by President Clinton to serve as undersecretary of HUD was approved only after Democrats stopped a filibuster by U.S. Sen. Jesse C. Helms...
That could prove to be an understatement. Brown, 61, is up against incumbent Frank Jordan, 60, a former police chief who came to office as a pro-business "non-politician," and Roberta Achtenberg, 45, a former Assistant Secretary of hud and lesbian activist who is hoping to tap into the city's sizable gay vote. The result is the most closely contested mayoral race in the nation. When voters go to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 7, they must choose among a low-key pragmatist like Jordan, a well-connected professional pol like Brown and a seasoned social activist like...
...provides an opening for demagogues of every stripe. But just two weeks after the verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial, the march was another reminder that race is the inescapable complication of American life. "The Million Man March altered the landscape," says Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Henry Cisneros. "Americans know that things are profoundly wrong. The question now is where do we go from here...
...government might do, the fiscally conservative G.O.P. majorities in Congress and in many statehouses around the country don't want to hear them. "No programs are going to happen," says California Representative Maxine Waters, a Democrat whose district is in South Central Los Angeles. Jack Kemp, who served as HUD Secretary under George Bush, says, "I don't see a single thing coming out of Congress that is specifically targeted to our No. 1 issue, which is creating more jobs and opportunities and access to capital and credit for minority men and women...