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...Outspoken and flamboyant, McKinney is Georgia's first black Congresswoman. In 1992 she was elected in the 11th District, which until last year was 64% African American. But she will seek re-election in the Fourth, which is only 33% black, because in 1995 the Supreme Court declared that the boundaries of the 11th had been unconstitutionally drawn on the basis of race. Her challenge now is to appeal to voters of both races, and with her campaign slogan, "Annoy Newt," she surprised onlookers by beating three white men to take the primary with 67% of the vote...
...FAMILY: Wife, Jacquese; three children RELIGION: Christian MILITARY: Marines, 1973 OCCUPATION: Lawyer; insurance adjuster POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 8754 Hollister Road, Phelan 92371. Tel.: 619-244-9007 A part-time farmer who raises Galloway cattle and alpine goats on a 10-acre plot in Phelan, Conaway is an outspoken advocate for workers' pensions and Medicare, racking up endorsements from the Committee on Political Education, California Federation of Teachers and United Auto Workers in his improbable mission to unseat nine-term incumbent Jerry Lewis...
...five-term House member Johnson finally threw his hat in the Senate ring. Reason? Because, he says, the once tolerable incumbent Senior Senator had taken to endorsing legislation that hurt the people of his state, specifically, the new telecommunications act. Giving up a safe seat in the House, the outspoken Representative should give Larry Pressler a run for his money...
...regarding the homosexual population in the United States, but the most accepted one is 10 percent. Just to give voters the benefit of the doubt, though, let's say 5 percent of America is homosexual. To my knowledge, no senators are openly gay, and Barney Frank is the most outspoken homosexual in Congress. So we have a 0 percent gay population in the Senate and a fraction of a percent in the House. America may never be ready for a gay president, much less a first partner...
DIED. FRANCES LEAR, 73; outspoken feminist and magazine editor; of breast cancer; in New York City. Married for 28 years to TV producer Norman Lear (and believed to be the model for the title character of his sitcom Maude), she used part of her splashy $100 million 1985 divorce settlement to found the short-lived Lear's, a magazine "for the woman who wasn't born yesterday...