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.
We can see that Casey is trying to be a senator who is very "Pro-life" and that is someone who cares about the benefits of children as he also has 4 children. at the same time, we learned that Casey is a senator who agrees with most of what his party believes, however, there’s also times when he doesn’t agree, getting the opinion of many as he is somewhat
Feinstein strongly supports Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which she rated the special interest group 100 percent for 20 years. Planned Parenthood Action Fund engages in educational and electoral activity like legislative advocacy and voter education. She does not support Christian Coalition of America, an organization that represents number of Christians’ certain viewpoints in America. She supports National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an organization that ensures the political, social, educational, and economic equality of rights of all persons and tries to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. She slightly supports American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) with an average approval rate of 65 percent. ACLU is an organization that preserves the individual rights, which include First Amendment rights, equal protection under the law, right t...
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.
I have noticed Dianne Feinstein is very generous. She is looking to keep the citizens she is accountable of safe, healthy and cultured. When California is in a time of need Feinstein donates money, starts charities, or makes a document or organization that can help out the people who cannot help themselves. Feinstein does not seem corrupt, I am sure there are instances where she does what is best for the people and not necessarily what the people want of her, but she does what she thinks is
Sen. Patty Murray had an easy 54-46 percent win in 1992, but remains a top Republican target. The challenger, Rep. Linda Smith (Rep.), has gathered an army of grass-roots supporters who favor her pro-life and anti-tax record. Recent polling suggests that moderate Rep...
I am choosing to write my essay focusing on Nancy Pelosi, arguably one of the most influential politicians of her time, and certainly one of the outstanding ladies of the political world. Not only was she the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House, she also was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame at Seneca Falls. She ranks with the most consequential speakers, certainly in the last 75 years.”(Burstyn) Nancy Pelosi was born on March 26th in 1940 and she has represented San Francisco for approximately 29 years. This however is not by far her most notable achievement, speaker of the house aside, under her guidance the 111th US Congress was said to be the most productive in the history of its conception. This means that she was able to oversee the 111th Congress in a manner that minimized the terrible three, collective action problems, commitment problems, and coordination problems. These problems all come down to the inability to make decisions, and are extremely ponderous to efficiency. She ran it as famously, even though the house was so divided when she took the pos...
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.
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.
Racism and prejudice have been dominant issues in the United States for many years. Being such a major issue is society, racism is also a major theme in one of the best pieces of American Literature, To Kill A Mockingbird. People, particularly African Americans, have been denied basic human rights such as getting a fair trial, eating in a certain restaurant, or sitting in certain seats of public buses. However, in 1955 a woman named Rosa Parks took a stand, or more correctly took a seat, on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She refused to give her seat to a white man and was arrested for not doing so. The reasons and consequences and the significance of her stand are comparable in many ways to Atticus Finch's stand in To Kill A Mockingbird. Rosa Parks worked for the equality of all people. She was elected secretary of the Montgomery branch of the National Advancement of Colored People, unsuccessfully attempted to vote many times to prove her point of discrimination, and had numerous encounters with bus drivers who discriminated against blacks. She was weary of the discrimination she faced due to the Jim Crow laws, which were laws were intended to prohibit "black[Americans] from mixing with white [Americans]" ("Jim Crow Laws"1). Also, due to the Jim Crow laws, blacks were required to give their seats to white passengers if there were no more empty seats. This is exactly what happened on December 1, 1955. On her way home from work, Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man and was shortly arrested (National Women's Hall of Fame1). Even though she knew what the consequences were for refusing to leave her seat, she decided to take a stand against a wrong that was the norm in society. She knew that she would be arrested, yet she decided that she would try to make a change. Although her arrest would seem like she lost her battle, what followed would be her victory. Rosa Parks's stand was so significant that she is called the mother of the civil rights movement (National Women's Hall of Fame1). Her arrest served as a catalyst for a massive boycott for public busses. Led by Martin Luther King, for 381 days, African Americans carpooled, walked, or found other ways of transportation. Despite the harassment everyone involved in the movement faced, the boycott continued and was extremely successful.
...gainst his appeal. Unlike four years earlier, Brown was competing against a polished figure not like the dark tragic Nixon. He was unable to show voters he was the man for the challenges California faced in 1966 and beyond specifically with the civil unrest and violence on campuses throughout the state. On November 8, 1966 voters spoke loudly giving Reagan a margin of victory of more than a million votes.
Amy Beach was a very famous and influential composer and pianist from New Hampshire, United States. She fought long and hard to get to where she got in her lifetime. Back in the late 1800’s, it was hard for women to get noticed because they believe that their role in society was to stay at home and take care of the family. Amy Beach defeated all the odds of a female gender role in her lifetime. She became a role model for young girls wanting to become a composer or becoming anything they wanted to be, as long as they fought for it. She has made an enormous impact on music in America. The following paper will discuss Beach’s life, her struggles, her musical training, how her music was shaped by the society she lived in and famous compositions
Above all, Dilma Rousseff is the first female president of Brazil, so since her elections a gender issue plays a big role in the Brazilian patriarchal state, where “the rule of father” is prevalent (Kamla). According to Heidi Hartmann, patriarchy is ‘a set of social relations which has a material base and in which there are hierarchical relations between men, and solidarity among them, which enable them to control women’. Even from the early ages women were under the power of men, who were known to be authority figures. In comparison to men, women were less likely to hold a male gender-typed post and more likely to hold low-valued positions. Since then attitude to female has changed: there is less discrimination, women are able to do almost anything men can do and even capable to rule a country, but anyway, the women’s opinion in the society is not as important as the men’s. ‘Subordination of women to men is [still] prevalent in [some] parts of the world’. (Ray) Currently female heads of states continue to fight for women rights and Dilma Rousseff is one of them. She wants to prove people that men and women should be equal, and plans to improve women’s lives; therefore, it is believed that her voting ‘represented a victory for Brazilian women’ (Fernandes).