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Good on women's issues, bad on women. The fall of Bob Packwood is troubling to watch...
...Thomas harassed her with unwelcome advances. But the boys on Capitol Hill are being bombarded with accusations about their own sexual misconduct. Most recent: a Washington Post report that at least 10 women gave specific accounts of sexual harassment over a 20-year period by Oregon Republican Senator Bob Packwood. The women, four of whom agreed to be identified by name, said Packwood forcefully kissed or fondled them and made unwelcome sexual suggestions. Packwood, who was narrowly re-elected in November to a fifth term, issued an apology, asked for an investigation and promised to undergo alcohol counseling...
...message the Packwood episode sends to Capitol Hill is that women are willing to risk humiliation or career damage by speaking out against sexual harassment. Says Harriet Woods, head of the National Women's Political Caucus: "Anita Hill emboldened women. We're stepping forward now and saying, 'Knock...
Republican Bob Packwood responded to pleas from the Oregon Winegrowers' Association to fight an 18 cents-per-bottle tax increase on wine. Packwood delivered: vineyards that produce less than 150,000 gal. a year will be exempt from the increase, and those that turn out up to 250,000 gal. will be partly spared. Roughly 1,000 of the 1,400 wineries in the nation, including 80 in Oregon, will get the breaks. Packwood has received $7,000 from the industry's political-action committees (PACs...
...attempt to jump-start the bargaining in late July, Darman proposed that both parties simultaneously put their offers on the table so that neither could gain a partisan advantage. But that notion fizzled. Two days before the so-called "immaculate conception" was due to take place, Senator Robert Packwood, a garrulous Oregon Republican, disclosed that Darman planned to eliminate income deductions for state and local taxes. Predictably, both Republican and Democratic Governors exploded, complaining that the idea would make it impossible to balance the budgets in their hard-pressed states. Democratic summiteers labeled the new tax a political maneuver. Within...