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Article: A Boxer on the ropes: California's Senate race.(incumbent Senator Barbara Boxer faces a serious challenge from Republican candidate Matt Fong in the 1998 election)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 26, 1998
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THE coffee comes from Stonewall Coffee, a predominantly homosexual enterprise; the milk cartons advertise an upcoming AIDS walk; and Barbara Boxer, California's junior senator, is lathering her supporters into a frenzy of enthusiasm. Her Republican opponent in November's Senate race, Matt Fong, is a cat's-paw for Newt Gingrich and Oliver North, an enemy of abortion rights, a friend of handguns and a madcap supporter of the flat tax, she argues, to chants of ''Fong is wrong.'' She, on the other hand, is a tireless fighter for progressive causes, a defender of women's rights, civil rights and, indeed, human rights. She raises the Clinton scandal only to dismiss it as a sleazy ...
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Article: SENATE CANDIDATES SQUARE OFF; BOXER, FONG CLASH ON ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);
August 27, 1998 ;
700+ words
... ... hour debate Wednesday, with Fong accusing Boxer of having a double standard and ... released Wednesday, showed the Boxer-Fong race is dead even at 45 percent ... than 50 percent of the vote,'' Boxer said. Fong sought to be the aggressor throughout ...
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