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Article: Recovering Republicans against Helms.(MAJIC - Mothers Against Jesse in Congress)
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- The Progressive
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- July 1, 1996
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Raleigh, North Carolina
AIDS killed Patsy Clarke's son Mark, but Jesse Helms killed her political apathy.
Helms has never been accused of sensitivity to gays and lesbians. But when the Republican Senator from North Carolina told the Republican grandmother from Raleigh that Mark had died because of his irresonsible actions, she decided that the best way to honor her son was to retire Helms.
And when Clarke began to tell her story, she found that a lot of other North Carolina mothers agreed. Together, they formed MAJIC--Mothers Against Jesse in Congress--one of the most novel grassroots political groups to appear in years.
"We're all terribly ...