after cook county recorder of deeds carol moseley-braun was mentioned as a challenger to dixon in the primary, quote, a dixon aide took carol moseley-braun to lunch. i don't exactly know what the lunch was for. i can imagine. i'm not sure the wisdom of letting local reporters know that you're doing that, you're having your staff try to talk this would-be primary challenger out of what she is thinking about doing. but the lunch apparently did not work. alan dixon voted yes on clarence thomas' supreme court nomination in october, 1991, mid-october. by the following month, november, 1991, carol moseley-braun had entered the race to run against him in the democratic primary that would follow several months later in march of 1992. now, again, at this point, alan dixon had won 29 state elections. he had never lost. he was the number three democrat in the united states senate. he had the support of every element of the democratic power structure. he was sitting on millions of dollars to run ads and to run his get out the vote operation which was finely honed after decades in illinois politic

"after cook county recorder of deeds carol moseley-braun was mentioned as a challenger to dixon in the primary, quote, a dixon aide took carol moseley-braun to lunch." i don't exactly know what the lunch was for. i can imagine. i'm not sure the wisdom of letting local reporters know that you're doing that, you're having your staff try to talk this would-be primary challenger out of what she is thinking about doing. but the lunch apparently did not work. alan dixon voted yes on clarence thomas' supreme court nomination in october 1991, mid-october. by the following month, november 1991, carol moseley-braun had entered the race to run against him in the democratic primary. that would follow several months later in march of 1992. now, again, at this point, alan dixon had won 29 state elections. he had never lost. he was the number three democrat in the united states senate. he had the support of every element of the democratic power structure. he was sitting on millions of dollars to run ads and to run his get out the vote operation which was finely honed after decades in illinois politic