Word: reno
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...Women's Equality Day, a sweltering Sunday afternoon at a Unitarian church in Boca Raton. You can tell it is Janet Reno's turf by the way the National Organization for Women crowd hangs on every word of the first female U.S. Attorney General. Whoever the first female U.S. President is, Reno says, she will listen more closely to "all Americans, like the single mother who feels alone and frustrated." But then Reno says something that leaves the N.O.W. women, dressed in suffragist purple, looking puzzled. She talks about "the young white man who wants to be an FBI agent...
...kind of sympathy usually expressed at a feminist rally. But if Reno wants to be the first female Governor of Florida--she is expected to announce this week--this is the kind of "centrist" note she will have to sound in her speeches. Often. On the one hand, since most of Florida's Democratic voters are in liberal South Florida, where Reno lives, the primary is hers to lose. But if her party wants to unseat Republican Governor Jeb Bush in 2002--exacting revenge for last fall's disputed presidential election and dealing a mid-term body blow...
Since the Florida campaign carries such high national stakes, the two parties combined may raise a staggering $50 million to wage it. The irony is that Reno, whose celebrity could make fund raising outside Florida easier, is being tagged by so many as a liability inside the state. So far she polls better against Bush than the half a dozen other Democratic hopefuls. However, the President's younger brother thumped her 54% to 39% in a recent survey by the Mason-Dixon firm, with only 7% undecided. Reno enjoys a reputation as a principled leader who does what she thinks...
...Reno tells TIME that she is ready to parry. She notes that as America's top cop she oversaw a drop in national crime statistics eight years in a row. As for her chances against Bush: "Folks in the [Florida] Panhandle know as well as folks in Miami that the base line for excellence in areas like education, criminal justice and the environment should be higher here." What about her Parkinson's disease? As Reno, 63, travels the state in a red Ford pickup, her de facto campaign symbol, her illness hardly seems an issue. Says ex-N.O.W. president...
...likely, an insider says, to run for Governor of Illinois, which hasn't elected a Democratic Governor for 29 years. Dan Glickman, former Agriculture Secretary, is considering a Senate bid in Kansas, which hasn't picked a Democrat for the Senate since 1932. Ex-Attorney General Janet Reno is weighing a challenge to Jeb Bush for Florida Governor, and former Clinton adviser Rahm Emmanuel is eyeing a congressional seat in Illinois. Aiming for a little balance, Elizabeth Dole has talked to Bush adviser Karl Rove and Senate Campaign Committee boss Bill Frist about running for Jesse Helms' Senate seat, should...