Barbara Boxer, born Barbara Levy Boxer, is currently a Democratic U.S. Senator from California. She was first elected to office in 1992. During her terms in office, Boxer has advocated environmental issues, health care, women's rights, public safety, and the economy. She has proven to be dedicated to the causes that she said she would fight for. She has voted against bills such as the Firearms Manufacturer Bill (which failed) and voted for the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (which passes). She had decided to retire in 2004, but changed her mind because she is so passionate about what she believes in.
In September 04, Republican Bill Jones was Senator Boxer's "competition". In an article from The Sacramento Bee, Boxer linked Jones to Bush's administrations foreign and environmental policies and restrictions on stem-cell research. Boxer also notes that there are "300 rollbacks'" in under the Bush administration. Boxer is known for fighting to protect the environment. While Boxer and Jones both supports stem-cell research, Jones opposes Prop-71 due to lack of state funds. Boxer states that "Bill Jones would make 90 percent of all abortions illegal". Boxer has always fought for women's rights, making her pro-choice on the situation of abortions. Bill Jones and his campaign spokesman made numerous allegations attacking Senator Boxer, and still, at the time this article was published, she maintained a significant lead over Jones.
By October, according to The Fresno Bee, Senator Boxer not only had a lead in the polls, but she also has a lead in fund raising. Towards the end of their campaigns, Boxer reported having $1.4 million, and Jones reported having less than $840,000. The differences between Boxer and Jones campaign were very evident. Boxer was the liberal; Jones was the conservative. Boxer didn't approve of the war in Iraq or Bush's policies on the environment, the economy, and health care. Jones strongly supported the president, particularly on the war in Iraq. I think Jones figured because California elected Schwarzenegger, a fellow Republican, he might have an easier time getting votes. But you can attribute Schwarzenegger's "popularity" to Gray Davis' unpopularity. And Schwarzenegger was already famous. Nobody knew who Jones was, but everyone knew who Barbara Boxer was. His loss was practically inevitable.
Is Monica simply a hapless White House intern caught in the middle of a media created scandal started by Linda Tripp. Monica Lewinsky is a 24 year old graduate of Lewis and Clark University in Oregon. Daughter of a Democratic contributor she was easily able to get an intern position in the White Horse. Some of Lewinsky's friends have said that she only took the intern position to sleep with important people. If the recent news reports are true Monica Lewinsky got what she was looking for.
The oldest currently serving US Senator, Dianne Feinstein, has done her share of leading our Senators and fighting to keep our country safe and free of crime. Feinstein is a member of the Democratic Party, as well as the former thirty-eighth mayor of San Francisco. Eight years after being elected into the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1970, Feinstein served as the board’s first female president. The assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk caused Feinstein to succeed as mayor of San Francisco in 1978. While Feinstein served as San Francisco’s first female mayor she renovated the cable car system and oversaw the 1984 Democratic National Convention.
In a state known for its apples, and nicknamed the “Evergreen State” looms a bitter battle between Democrat Incumbent Senator Patty Murray and Representative Linda Smith (Republican) for the only U.S. Senate seat open in the state of Washington. Washington has been historically Democratic for years. But changes in the state’s economy and a low amount of challengers have led to political instability in the Evergreen State. In recent times, while the state has voted Democratic in the last three presidential elections, Washington voted Republican for president in the previous elections in the 1970’s and 1980’s. A Democrat has held the governor’s mansion since 1984. Control in the Senate, House, and state legislature is split. In 1994, Washington’s House delegation shifted more than any other state’s, with six of nine seats moving from Democrats to Republican. Conservative Republicans maintained their dominance in these same races in 1996. Democratic Sen. Patty Murray is one of three women elected in 1992 (“The Year of the Woman”) who is seeking re-election this year. Murray ran her campaign in 1992 with the slogan “Mom in tennis shoes.” Born on October 11th, 1950, Sen. Murray began her bout in politics as an educator running for the Shoreline School Board. She won the position and was on the school board from 1983-1989. Sen. Murray ran and won the Washington State Senate seat from 1989-1993.
Not many people can add the position of National Security Advisor to their list of achievements, especially if those people are women. Condoleezza Rice, however, can place the accomplishment right up there with being a previous member of President Bush’s foreign-policy team, and tenured professor and provost in the political science department of the prestigious Stanford University.
Sandra Day O'Connor Perhaps no other jurist could have come to the Supreme Court under greater expectations. When President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981 to be the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court, he did so to keep a campaign promise. O'Connor's nomination was quick to draw criticism from both the political people left and right. Conservatives blamed her lack of federal judicial experience and claimed that she didn't have any constitutional knowledge.
Wendy Davis is a democrat born right here Fort Worth Texas. She went to school at Texas Christian University and graduated with honors at Harvard Law School. People have been known to call Wendy Davis a fighter willing to stand up for what she believes in. At a young age Wendy Davis began working after school to help support her single mother and three siblings. Wendy was a single mother herself at the age of 19; she worked two jobs so she can create a better life for her young daughter. She learned about attending school and decided that she needed to further her education to live a better life. While attending college she helped and reached out many development issues and became known as a leader up...
Shirley Chisholm, first African American woman to be elected to Congress was born in Brooklyn on November 30, 1924. She is one of the most profound and admired women that challenged society not only as a woman, but a woman of color. She made many contributions to the women's movement and society.
Famie Mercilien Bill Clinton, known as William Jefferson Blythe III, was born on August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas. His mother's name was Virginia Cassidy and his father was William Jefferson Blythe. Bill Clinton never got to meet his biological father due to the fact that he died in an accident three months before he was born. Bill Clinton was taught to read at a very early age by his grandma, Edith Cassidy, who practically raised him. In 1950 Bill Clinton’s mom married Roger Clinton, who was a car dealer and an abusive alcoholic, when Bill Clinton was fifteen; his mother divorced Roger Clinton, then remarried him again.
John Sydney McCain III was born August 29, 1936 in a military hospital at Coco Solo NAS in the Panama Canal Zone, Panama. His father, John McCain, Jr. was a naval officer stationed at the Canal, doing duties at a small submarine facility. At the same base and time, his grandfather was the base commander.
Lucille Ball was the most loved television comedienne of her time. She was an American icon and is considered the first lady of television. With her strong work ethic and her determination, Lucille not only changed the face of television, she also paved the way for a lot of other female actresses.
1. Dolores Huerta was a member of Community Service Organization (“CSO”), a grass roots organization. The CSO confronted segregation and police brutality, led voter registration drives, pushed for improved public services and fought to enact new legislation. Dolores Huerta wanted to form an organization that fought of the interests of the farm workers. While continuing to work at CSO Dolores Huerta founded and organized the Agricultural Workers Association in 1960. Dolores Huerta was key in organizing citizenship requirements removed from pension, and public assistance programs. She also was instrumental in passage of legislation allowing voters the right to vote in Spanish, and the right of individuals to take the driver’s license examination in their native language. Dolores Huerta moved on to working with Cesar Chavez. Dolores was the main person at National Farm Workers Association (“NFWA”) who negotiated with employers and organized boycotts, strikes, demonstrations and marches for the farm workers.
hirley kept active in politics following her retirement by co-founding the National Political Congress of Black Women and serving as its founding in 1984 until1992.
Women’s equality has made huge advancements in the United States in the past decade. One of the most influential persons to the movement has been a woman named Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth faced gender discrimination many times throughout her career and worked hard to ensure that discrimination based on a person’s gender would be eliminated for future generations. Ginsburg not only worked to fight for women’s equality but fought for the rights of men, as well, in order to show that equality was a human right’s issue and not just a problem that women faced. Though she faced hardships and discrimination, Ruth never stopped working and thanks to her equality is a much closer reality than it was fifty years ago. When Ruth first started her journey in law, women were practically unheard of as lawyers; now three women sit on the bench of the highest court in the nation.
“Back then, we didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.”(Rosa Parks Biography). She’s tired and her feet are absolutely aching, but the only feeling going through forty-two year old Rosa Park’s mind is anger. She has just been told by the bus driver to relocate to the back of the bus and join the rest of the colored people that had been moved; so a white man could occupy her seat. He tells her to move again. She doesn’t. What happens next on this first day in December is a middle-aged seamstress being tossed out of a bus and subsequently arrested. The beginning of the Montgomery bus boycotts is about to begin.
Rosa Parks is famous for a lot of things. But, she is best known for her civil rights action. This happen in December 1,1955 Montgomery, Alabama bus system. She refused to give up her sit to a white passenger on the bus. She was arrested for violating a law that whites and blacks sit in separate sit in separate rows.