Bella Abzug by Suzanne Braun Levine

Author:Suzanne Braun Levine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011-06-27T00:00:00+00:00

Doug Ireland I was opposed to her running for the Senate, having gone through the first campaign to send her to Congress and then that terribly bitter ’72 campaign against Bill Ryan. I would tell her, “This is not a congressional seat any longer. It’s an annuity. You can represent this district until you die, and you will accumulate enormous seniority.” Since the Voting Rights Act of 1964, things were beginning to change in the Democratic Party. One saw the withering away of the domination of the southern Democrats, whose longevity had given them a death grip on the committee chairs in the House. Bella was one of the greatest coalition builders ever to be in the House of Representatives. By this time, because of her charm when she turned it on and her undeniably brilliant legal mind, she had gotten the reputation as an extraordinarily effective congresswoman. She was able to build coalitions with some very conservative people on various issues, including some of those old southern Democrats.

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