Nominee's Background:
Carol Moseley Braun, a Senator from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., August 16, 1947; educated in Chicago public schools; graduated, University of Illinois 1969; graduated, University of Chicago School of Law 1972; admitted to the Illinois bar in Chicago 1973; prosecutor, office of the United States Attorney, Chicago 1973-1977; member and assistant majority leader, Illinois house of representatives 1978-1988; recorder of deeds, Cook County, Ill., 1988-1992; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1992, and served from January 3, 1993, to January 3, 1999; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1998; ambassador to New Zealand, December 15, 1999-2001; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2004.
Nominating Speech:
Carol Moseley Braun's run as a presidential contender changed the way history will remember her. She will now be lauded as one of the few women who have had the courage and tenacity to launch a presidential run. That's how it should be.
Moseley Braun's intelligence, charisma and comportment showed that she will not accept being judged solely by the perceived scandals that overshadowed her Senate term. She demonstrated that women, like men, are not monolithic. Her candidacy not only had important implications for her, but for the public as well. Moseley Braun's 20 years of experience in local, state and federal office remind people that women can and do lead.
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Progressive Criteria:
The State Department will:
Make sure that the State Department, and not the Pentagon or the CIA is the prime agency for our foreign policy;
Work for much greater funding for international development aid, not the arms trade;
Help the US to be a good global citizen, recognizing the dignity of every person and every country, not throwing our weight around but acting cooperatively, using our tremendous resources to connect with and peacefully aid others:
Use our good offices to promote peaceful relations, de-militarizing conflicts, promoting justice, democratic rights, equality and fairness;
See that we act whenever possible to strengthen rather than weaken, international institutions such as the UN;
Work to restore funding and support for international cultural and educational exchanges;
Promote access of foreign scholars to our educational institutions;
Remember that the USA is a signatory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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