Word: townsend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history to win the nominations of both major parties in a Senate campaign.* In Nebraska, State Treasurer Kay Orr, a Republican, is running against former Lincoln Mayor Helen Boosalis, a Democrat, in the country's first all-woman gubernatorial race. In Maryland's Second Congressional District, Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert Kennedy's daughter, will oppose incumbent Helen Delich Bentley...
...Townsend faces even harder going. Although she is favored to win the primary, she must then upset Incumbent Representative Helen Delich Bentley, 62, a tough-talking conservative who dismisses Townsend's candidacy the way a dowager would dismiss a flapper. "I am running on my own name," says Bentley, "and on what I have done...
...Townsend seems uncertain about how much to rely on her famous name. "People are electing Kathleen Townsend," she says. Then she corrects herself. "They are electing Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. I don't intend to hide the fact that I'm a Kennedy." While her posters promote her as Kathleen Townsend, her literature uses all three names. Townsend has been accused of carpetbagging, even though her husband grew up in the district and teaches nearby. When Republicans complain that she is a newcomer, she replies with a humor and bite characteristic of her late father, "The Republicans, of all people, should...
...Townsend is more clearly her father's philosophical heir, and she matches him in seriousness. A Harvard graduate and a lawyer, she has worked for the Massachusetts and Maryland attorney generals. Like her father, she chops the air with her palm when she speaks, and she talks compassionately of the dispossessed and disenfranchised. It remains to be seen whether she can move a district that is predominantly Democratic but moderate...
...Every morning," Townsend says of her childhood, "each child was required to recite three current events, and on Sundays the older children were expected to make a speech about a personality in the news." Now the eldest children of Robert Kennedy are hoping to bring that ingrained interest in public matters to Washington. The upcoming primaries will be a test of their old family football cheer: "Clap your hands! Stamp your feet! 'Cause Daddy's team can't be beat...