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Former Illinois Senator test presidential waters in Iowa

February 17, 2003 By admin

The first and only black woman ever elected to the United States Senate was in Iowa this weekend to say she’s thinking about a run for the White House. Carol Moseley-Braun will file papers this week to form her presidential campaign committee. Moseley-Braun says she believes the country’s on the wrong track, and she has ideas for putting the U.S. back on the right track. Moseley-Braun says she’ll offer “clarity.” She says we should not go to war “unilaterally by ourselves” and should not have budget deficits.Moseley-Braun served on term as a United States Senator from Illinois. When she lost her reelection bid in 1998, President Clinton appointed her Ambassador to New Zealand. Moseley-Braun dismissed the idea her ’98 defeat disqualifies her from seeking the Presidency. Moseley-Braun says she’s won 15 elections and lost one — a race in which she says she was outspent by 10-million dollars and lost by less than one percent of the vote. Moseley-Braun also served in the Illinois House and is a former assistant U.S. Attorney. Moseley-Braun appeared an event this past weekend in Des Moines that was organized by “American Women Presidents” — an organization that’s promoting the idea of electing a woman President.

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