Catching Up With Carol Moseley Braun

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Catching Up With Carol Moseley Braun
by Matthew Cardinale

“Right now I’m a recovering politician and a committed private citizen,” said Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun, 57, in a phone interview for the progressive news community.

The former US Senator from 1992-1998, US Presidential Candidate in 2004, and US Ambassador to New Zealand, Samoa, the Cook Islands, and Antarctica, is currently focusing her energies on her new law firm, Moseley Braun, LLC, as well as her new small business.

After a year spent largely out of the public eye, she’s continuing her lifetime work of public service on behalf of the disadvantaged through private practice, however, and still has a lot to say about politics, past, present, and future....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Cardinale0507.htm

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1. Seems like her Presidential campaign didn't help her career

as much as she hoped. Maybe it had something to do with the revelations that she took payoffs from a former primary opponent after her endorsement.

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4. How many of the 2004 candidates dropped out, endorsed a rival,

and then had that former rival pay off the dropout's campaign debt?

Answer: one, CMB.

In fact, afaik, this is the only case in history of this ever happening.

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5. actually all of them did save Kucinich.

There was a Democratic unity dinner which was used to pay off all the debts of every candidate except Kucinich. The reason Kucinich didn't get the money was his refusal to get out of the campaign.

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7. She had a better resume than Edwards did

yet no one claims he had no business running or questions his motives for doing so. The fact is had she been a white man and not a black woman, her run would have been treated much differently and better.

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9. Here is a comparision of the resumes

Both rose from poverty to distinguished careers. She as a black woman, he as a handsome white male. Care to guess for whom that would be easier.

When Braun ran she had served a whole term in the Senate been ambassador to New Zealand, and had served in the Illinois House of Representatives. She had won several elections, losing only one.

Edwards had served four years in the Senate. He had won no previous elections. He had become a very good trial lawyer.

In fairness maybe neither one was qualified but by any reasonable standard she was every bit as qualifed as he was.

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3. US Ambassador to New Zealand, Samoa, the Cook Islands, and Antarctica

I'm not sure why this strikes me as funny... while she was Senator she really did like to travel.