From: wiggins@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Wiggins)
Subject: Re: Carol Mosely Braun
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:58:25 GMT
Keywords: Welfare, Vacation

kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm) writes:

	>I am from Illinois, and did not vote for Braun because she did
	>not have the abilities to be a Senator.  She might have been a
	>quailfied Representative, but not a Senator.  With that said, I
	>would like to take exception to Rush's TV show last night.  He
	>needs to tone down his attack on Braun, because it is
	>counterproductive!  It looks like he is going after her because
	>she is a black woman.  Don't get me wrong, she should be
	>attacked for her actions, but he should think about how best to
	>do so for a larger effect.  Conservatives already know she was
	>a bad choice for the Senate, but know it is time to convince
	>the middle ( liberals will never see their folly ).

I agree that he hit her hard, but disagree that it's because she's
either black or female.  CMB was just another Chicago Democratic
political hack who saw the opportunity of a lifetime after Anita Hill
did her comedy act in Washington.  

Rush hammered away at her most recent escapade, pointing out that she
has spent the last month in South Africa with her boyfriend and son,
bought a new lake front condo and a new Jeep, and spent a
bundle in the process.  In the interview segment that Rush showed,
she said that she "saved up for it."  Since she was making about 50K
per year as Cook County Recorder of Deeds, that's just a little hard to
understand.  By the way, several of her campaign aides haven't been
paid and her political campaign is still 500K in debt.  I can't help
but wonder how anyone who was sure to be a winner in November and who
was on the front page of most national publications at one time or
another couldn't raise enough money to pay for her campaign.

One thing that I don't think Rush pointed out is that while every other
freshman member of Congress has been all over Washington plugging for
committee assignments, CMB didn't bother.  She didn't even ask for a seat on
the Judiciary Committee, which was the main reason she said she wanted to go
to Washington in the first place.

Braun and her siblings split a sizable chunk of cash that their mother
received, and nobody even considered claiming it on tax returns until
Rich Williamson (the token Republican cannon fodder) pointed it out
repeatedly in his campaign against her.  Williamson lost by a sizable
margin, of course, but he didn't get beaten nearly as badly as I
expected after the almost daily drooling over CMB by the national
media.

If you or I had "forgotten" to claim several thousand dollars on our
income tax and the IRS found out about it, I suspect that we'd receive
a kick in the seat, not a seat in the Senate.

No, he's not hitting her because she's black or female; he's hitting her
because she deserves it.

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