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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Who's Gunning for Dianne Feinstein's Senate Seat?
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- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 04:52:44 GMT
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- The election is just over, and already they're trying to
- decide who's up for the next elections.
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- Dianne Feinstein's term will end in 1994, and already, there
- is talk about who will run then. DF herself is expected to run for
- re-election, while on the Republican side, there is discussion on who
- will challenge her. Already, there are two names mentioned: Bob Dornan
- and John Dannemeyer, both Southern California right-wingers and
- fervent homophobes. I'm sure that both are itching to associate DF
- with San Francisco (she was actually mayor) and the sexual preference
- of many of that city's inhabitants.
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- This makes me wonder about Richard Seymour, Tom Campbell and
- Bruce Herschensohn, losers in this year's race.
-
- If she gets any hard-boiled right-wingers as challengers, then
- I hope she's willing to give them a taste of their own
- negative-campaign medicine. Boxer almost lost by not doing so until
- the last minute. Maybe we'll have some more last-minute revelations of
- sexual peccadilloes, complete with pathetic defenses of the "I went
- there to buy the Far Eastern Economic Review" / "I only read Playboy
- for the intervews" / "I didn't inhale" variety.
-
- Yes, I know that's mudslinging, but it is legitimate
- mudslinging against would-be champions of "Family Values"; why should
- they lecture the rest of us about "morality" when they can't even keep
- their own house in order?
-
- Barbara Boxer's turn will only come in 1998, which is a long
- time off.
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- It is worth noting that these are the first two women to be
- sent to the Senate by California. A woman had ran before these two, in
- 1950: Helen Gahagan Douglas, a liberal Democrat, against Richard
- Nixon. He shamelessly Red-baited her as the "Pink Lady" -- and won. It
- is not surprising that he became known as "Tricky Dick".
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