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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (9121)	10/12/1998 9:12:00 PM
From: Who, me?	Respond to of 67261

<< various self-appointed keepers of the topic of this thread,>> Ask Michelle to explain it to you.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (9121)	10/12/1998 9:16:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Hey, it was jbe's idea. exchange2000.com If you want to tell him to stuff it be my guest.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (9121)	10/12/1998 10:06:00 PM
From: Who, me?	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Does this qualify for on topic? If not, oh well, just click the next button! Women Dems Face Political Fight By JOHN HOWARD Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Female outrage at the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee's handling of the Clarence Thomas sexual harassment controversy helped propel three women to the Senate. But now Barbara Boxer, Carol Moseley-Braun and Patty Murray are struggling for second terms. All three were elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, the Year of the Woman. All are liberal Democrats. And all are in the political fights of their lives. The so-called Year of the Woman has been replaced in 1998 by the Year of One Woman -- Monica Lewinsky. And yet, there's no common thread to tie the three together. The impact of the scandal surrounding President Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky is an imponderable. But there is no question that Democratic bread-and-butter issues such as health care, education, and abortion rights have been overshadowed by the scandal. ''This campaign in many ways is a very surreal campaign. Nobody, or almost nobody, is focusing on the issues ... so I've got to do it myself,'' Boxer complained recently. Boxer, Moseley-Braun and Murray all are vulnerable. This likely is due in part to the possibility the Democratic vote may be depressed because of the sex and coverup scandal. But it may be because of the upset nature of the women's victories. -- In the state of Washington, Murray, who campaigned as a ''mom in tennis shoes,'' has had lackluster job ratings since her election. She faces a conservative Republican, Rep. Linda Smith, who has never lost an election and has a 35,000-strong volunteer army. The latest poll shows Murray leading narrowly, but a fifth of the vote remains undecided. Like Boxer, Murray has been derided for her relative silence on Clinton's affair with the former White House intern. ''She put on a pair of Hush Puppies when she took off her tennis shoes,'' Smith said. -- In Illinois, Moseley-Braun, down 10 points in the latest polls, has been hammered with ethics problems ranging from allegations of misusing campaign funds, to criticism of a trip to Nigeria to visit the dictator Gen. Sani Abacha, who died this year. She was never convicted of any wrongdoing. On Sunday, the Chicago Tribune endorsed her Republican opponent, State Sen. Peter Fitzgerald. -- In California, Boxer is in a neck-and-neck race with Matt Fong, a Republican perhaps best known for his legendary mother, Democrat March Fong Eu, who was California's top elections officer for two decades. Fong has spent eight years in relative obscurity as an appointed member of a state tax board and as state treasurer, and at campaign stops, the balding, spectacled candidate jokes about his lack of charisma. The latest Field Poll showed Fong leading 48 percent to 44 percent with 8 percent undecided and a margin of error of four percentage points. To win, Boxer, Murray and Moseley-Braun must galvanize their core supporters, the loyal Democrats and Republican women who helped put them over the top in 1992. ''What got them in was the Clarence Thomas matter in the fall of 1991. All were upset winners then,'' said GOP political consultant Tony Quinn. This year, Quinn said, ''they are all exposed to the hypocrisy charge, but Boxer more than the others because her whole career was built around sexual harassment.'' The three benefited from the support of voters infuriated by hearings the male-dominated Judiciary Committee conducted in 1991 into allegations that Thomas repeatedly used suggestive language toward Anita Hill when she worked for him. The enduring image of Boxer's political rise was captured by television cameras when she pounded on the doors of the Senate demanding that Thomas' accuser be heard. Thomas subsequently was narrowly confirmed for a seat on the Supreme Court. Later, she took a lead role in denouncing then-Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., who was forced to resign over allegations of sexual misconduct. With 55 seats in the Senate, Republicans need just five more for a filibuster-proof majority, and Moseley-Braun, Murray and Boxer all are considered vulnerable. Boxer, who is related by marriage to Clinton, was slow to criticize Clinton over the Lewinsky matter, finally speaking out after the president acknowledged the affair in a nationally televised address in August. Even then, her comments paled in comparison with that of fellow Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who said her faith in Clinton was ''shattered'' by his admission. Like Boxer, Feinstein was elected to the Senate in the fabled Year of the Woman, though she is not up for re-election this year. She was running to fill the unexpired term of a Republican appointee, then ran again two years later for a full six-year term. A record number of women were elected to Congress and state Legislatures that year, many inspired to run by the allegations that Hill, an Oklahoma law professor, leveled against Thomas. In 1998, that momentum is gone. ''There is no wind at her back this time,'' UCLA political science professor John Petrosick said of Boxer. ''The wind is in her face, given what is going on in Washington.'' Patricia Kellenberger, a bank teller in Sacramento, said she voted for Boxer and Clinton in 1992, but has since re-registered as a Republican. ''Women voted for him because he was good looking and smart, and he had this Kennedy image. But now I think they feel betrayed by him,'' she said recently. ''And it spills over on Boxer, too, because she hasn't spoken out.'' AP-NY-10-12-98 2052EDT newsday.com