Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Percy's problems are largely with members of his own party, especially those in the balky conservative wing, who have loathed him for years. Said a veteran Republican moderate: "The conservatives have been waiting to get him. They've been like alligators lying on a river bank." The poll shows Percy actually behind Seith in traditionally Republican counties downstate and running only a few points ahead in heavily Republican DuPage County, a Chicago suburb he swept by a margin of 50 percentage points six years...
Sensing Percy's unpopularity with Republican conservatives, Seith has stressed his hard-line anti-Communist views and fiscal conservatism. As a result, he has the backing of Jim Evans, chairman of the Illinois Conservative Union, while Percy has picked up endorsements from the AFL-CIO, the United Auto Workers and the liberal Independent Voters of Illinois...
...kitchen table." To help finance her race for the seat vacated after 32 years by the retirement of Democrat James Delaney, she dipped into her savings for $115,000. Although Democratic leaders supported a man in the primary, she won and now stands a good chance of beating Republican Alfred DelliBovi, 32, in next week's election...
Chief among the women's problems is getting their fair share of the mother's milk of politics?money. Women are less likely than men to make large donations. Sharon Sharp, Republican nominee for Illinois secretary of state, was approached after a speech by a woman in an expensive suit and flowing fur coat who excitedly thrust a check at her. It was for $5. Jane Eskind, who has the uphill task of opposing Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker in Tennessee, has had to rely on her own money ($100,000 so far). "Men are more comfortable contributing large amounts...
...network hurts women further by excluding them from power. "When those smoke-filled rooms open," says New Jersey Republican Congresswoman Millicent Fen wick, "there's hardly ever a woman inside." As Susan and Martin Tolchin wrote in their book Clout?Womanpower and Politics, "The smoke-filled rooms, bour-bon-and-branch-water rites and all-night poker games exclude women from the fellowship and cronyism that seal the bonds of power." Says former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug...