Word: moseley
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...Carol Moseley Braun, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Illinois, has become the woman of the year in what has been dubbed the Year of the Women in politics...
...polls are very encouraging," said Laura Retzler, student coordinator for the campaign. "The latest puts Carol Moseley Braun at 54 percent and [Republican opponent] Rich Williamson at 28 percent...
Yeakel, who has said she wants to make the fall campaign in part a referendum on Specter's memorably merciless questioning of Hill, joins Illinois Senate hopeful Carol Moseley Braun at the top of a growing list of women who are riding the perception that women will prove to be natural reformers of a broken-down system that has kept them at arms' length. Daughter of an 11-term Congressman, Yeakel did not run a shoestring campaign; she spent about $200,000 of her own money...
Another candidate who has excited interest among women is Carol Moseley Braun, who upset incumbent Al Dixon in the Illinois Democratic Senate primary in March. Feminists seized on her triumph over Dixon, who voted for Thomas' confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice, as evidence that the Hill-Thomas backlash would propel women to power. "That was an improbable 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...
Alan Dixon didn't know it at the time, but his support of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas last fall would help derail his 42-year political career. Like many 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...