NOW to Oppose Bush, Back Women
The National Organization for Women said Friday that it hopes to tap into a popular campaign theme--disgust with incumbents--while pushing women candidates and opposing President Bush.
“We are about to make a dramatic breakthrough at the federal level,” NOW President Patricia Ireland said. “Certainly, the public disgust with scandal, greed and corruption feeds into this in a major way.”
High-profile victories in U.S. Senate primaries by Democrats Carol Moseley Braun in Illinois, Lynn Yeakel in Pennsylvania, and Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein in California, have prompted some to declare 1992 a breakthrough year for women in politics.
The Center for the American Woman and Politics at Rutgers University said seven women Senate candidates and 55 women House candidates so far have been nominated by the major parties.
The Senate now has two women members; the House, 28.
“Women are lined up and ready to break through that glass ceiling,” Ireland said.
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