Run Run Run by Jack Hoffman & DANIEL SIMON

Author:Jack Hoffman & DANIEL SIMON
Language: eng
Format: epub
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ISBN: 9781609809478
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2019-11-15T18:00:00+00:00

In January 1972, I’d received a call from Mark Solomon, a Simmons College professor and Shirley Chisholm adviser. Mark wanted to know if I would consider running as a delegate in Framingham on the Chisholm ticket. I’d been involved since 1968 in anti-war activities, and routinely did volunteer work with developmentally disabled children. I’d been nominated as Employer of the Year by the Worcester Association for Retarded Children. That plus being Abbie’s brother made me a good Chisholm prospect.

Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm was a former schoolteacher and the first black woman to make a presidential bid. She was running as a Democrat out of her home district in Brooklyn, New York. With her glasses and wig, she reminded you of a teacher you might have had in grade school, the one who really wanted you to make something of yourself. Very progressive politically, and a staunch admirer of Abbie, her platform was women’s rights, civil rights, and an end to the war in Vietnam. My idea of a wonderful woman.

But Shirley wasn’t about to sway conservative, parochial Framingham. I lost my race, but they invited me down to Miami anyway as a Chisholm campaign aide to work the floor. When I called Abbie to tell him I was going, I could hear the pride in his voice as he congratulated me. Kid brother makes good. He said he’d meet me there.

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