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Brown's hopes now rest on a detailed, 63-page booklet called Building a New California, which will be mailed to 1 million homes as a way of suggesting that, unlike her opponent, Brown "has a plan." Eric Schockman, an elections expert at the University of Southern California, is enthused. "Since Labor Day, I've seen a different Kathleen Brown," he says. "She's more candid." In fact, in a debate with Wilson last Friday night, Brown emphasized her tough attitude on crime by disclosing that years ago one of her daughters had been raped and her son had been...
More broadly still, some politicians believe the Los Angeles election foreshadows the twilight of liberal mayors. Says Eric Schockman, a University of Southern California political scientist: "The end of the economic growth machine in urban areas 2 1/2 years ago brought joblessness, escalating crime because you could no longer afford to fight it, and now a shift in big urban power structures. L.A. is one of the dominoes along the way." Schockman foresees a new kind of leadership aimed at transcending ethnic and economic divisions and "saving us from ourselves...
...nomination for California's 52 congressional races. All of them clearly benefited from the anti-incumbent mood in general -- and Anita Hill's coattails in particular. "We're seeing the shattering of the political glass ceiling for women in California," said University of Southern California election expert Eric Schockman. Moaned defeated Congressman Levine: "I got hit by a tidal wave known as the year of the woman...
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