University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 29, 1992
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Senate candidate hopes to cash in on voters' rage
The Associated Press
HARRIBURG, Pa. — Political upstart Lynn Yeakel says that U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter's treatment of professor Anita Hill was outrageous. Now she has the money, and the opportunity, to take him to task for it.
The co-founder of a Philadelphia-based women's charity was the winner of yesterday's Democratic Senate primary, defeating Lt. Gov. Mark Singel in an upset. She has said that last fall's Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas were the turning point in her decision to run.
Specter took a leading role in the hearings, sharply questioning Hill and at one point accusing her of perjury.
"I looked at those 14 men and decided I didn't want these people making
decisions for me." Yeakel said.
She spent $203,000 of her own money to get the nomination. She also got help from Emily's List, a national organization that tracks women who have a chance to win and donates money to their campaigns.
Yeakel is convinced she is the strongest candidate for the November run against Specter and hopes to cash in voter anger over his questioning of Hill, she said.
In the primary, Yeakel faced four other Democratic contenders, including Singel, the party's anointed choice, who was pegged a shooi-in for the nomination. By contrast, Yeakel was unknown only a few months ago. A barrage of television advertising shortly before the election lifted her 20 points in the polls to show her even with Singel.
Yekel's campaign began on an abortion-rights note. She then expanded her platform to cover proposals
such as cutting the defense budget by a third and providing an $800 tax credit for families with children.
Yeakel, 50, is a co-founder and president of Women's Way, which raises $1.5 million each year for 35 agencies that provide services to women. According to her financial disclosure report, her assets were in excess of $1 million. She became the group's chief executive in 1980, when it branched out into 15 states.
Yekael's father, Porter Hardy, served 24 years as a Democratic member of the U.S. House from 1946 to 1968. He now follows his footsteps into national services.
"In many ways I'm like my father," she said. "I ask the tough questions. Problems are incredibly complex now, and I think I know which questions to ask."
"to offer performance, not perks and promises; leadership, not politics as usual," she said.
Bush says he has nomination locked
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush yesterday declared he was "over the top" in delegates he needed to win the Republican nomination for re-election, although aides acknowledged he had not yet won some of the needed delegates.
The president also predicted at a $9 million GOP gala that this could be the year the party gained control of both houses of Congress. Both the House and Senate are now under Democratic control.
"It's wonderful to be officially over the top," Bush told the dinner crowd of 4,000. "I know it seemed like forever, but it's been a long, long election year."
The White House said Bush's big victory in Pennsylvania, where he swept all 72 delegates at stake, clinched the nomination for Bush.
But White House representative Marlin Fitzwater acknowledged that the White House camp was counting 22 delegates from Maine and eight from Wyoming that will not be awarded until Republicans in those states hold
conventions Saturday.
Bush must have more than half of the 2,209 delegates to the Republican National Convention this summer before he can claim renomination.
"We had already turned our sights to the general election," where Bush-like willface Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, and with it, the Bush campaign political director.
"To the party faithful, when you cross over the line, that is a clear signal that it's time to start getting it together for the fall campaign," Matalin said.
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