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11/12/1999 15:09
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LT. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
PAGE 01
FAX TRANSMISSION
OFFICE OF
LT. GOVERNOR KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND
State House, 100 State Circle
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
(410) 974-2804 / 1 800 811-8336
Fax: (410) 974-5882
To:
Josh Gottheimer
Date:
November 12, 1999
Fax #
(202) 456-2505
Pages:
9, including cover sheet
From:
Billy Mann
Subject:
COMMENTS:
If you do not receive the entire transmission, please contact this office on (410) 974-2804.
Confidentiality Notice: The information accompanying this facsimile is intended only for
the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you
are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or taking of any action in
reliance on the content of this telecopied information is strictly prohibited.
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FACT SHEET
Walden/Sierra 13th Annual Fundraiser and Roast
Friday, November 12, 1999
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
THEME OF EVENT:
KKT is Guest of Honor at the Walden/Sierra Fundraiser and
the "roasted" one. Dr. Maggie O'Brien is Mistress of
Ceremony.
ROLE:
Remarks (5-8 minutes)
NUMBER OF PEOPLE:
300+
STAFF PERSON(s):
Eric Madden
(c) 410-802-0770
(p) 410-681-6396
CONTACT PERSON:
Kathleen O'Brien
Executive Director, Walden/Sierra, Inc.
301-997-1318
Hotline 301-863-6661
301-904-1489 (car phone)
LOCATION:
Cedar Point Officers' Club
Patuxent River
APPROPRIATE DRESS:
Cocktail Dress
VIP WILL BE POSITIONED: KKT will be seated in front of the audience at the podium
table.
DIGNITARIES:
St. Mary's Co. Commissioners, local judges, Sen. Roy Dyson,
Newly appointed Judge Slade (former delegate).
BACKGROUND:
The funds raised go directly to support a variety of programs
including the Runaway Shelter, Domestic Violence Services,
Student Assistance program and HotSpots initiative. Past
"roastees" have included Steny Hoyer, Ted Lewis, Joe Marion
Gough, and Mary Catherine Bell.
DETAILED AGENDA:
See attached.
MEDIA COVERAGE:
Local papers
continued,
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ATTACHMENTS:
Agenda, Invitation, newspaper article on the event, Walden
Sierra Budget, Mission Statement.
DIRECTIONS:
From the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center in
Hollywood, take Rt. 235 toward Lexington Park to Pax River.
Make left into Main Gate to base. Follow main road about 4
miles to Officers' Club.
MISSION STATEMENT
PROGRAM
WELCOME
Walden/Sierra is a community
Ken Farquhar
based health agency.
President, Board of Directors
The mission is to improve the quality
of mind and spirit of the community.
INVOCATION
We do this by providing leadership and standards of
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Reverend Rona Harding
Church of the Ascension
quality in identifying, developing and providing
professional services.
WALDEN OVERVIEW &
We endeavor to promote the well being of children to
PRESENTATIONS
conserve and strengthen individual and family life.
Kathleen O. O'Brien, Ph.D.
Executive Director
ROAST
Master
Where Did We Get Our Name?
J. Margaret O'Brien, Ph.D., Roast Mizzness
President of St. Mary's College
Walden- We started in the woods staffed with Vista
ROASTERS
volunteers and were named for Henry David
Benjamin C. Bradlee
WALDEN/STERRA, INC.
LT.GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
Thoreau's commentary on essential living.
Delegate John F. Wood, Jr.
J. Frank Raley
Siorra- Our Residential program was named by the
and some "surprises"
youth after hearing a familiar operating principal of
REBUTTAL
Dr. O'Brien's, "It's not the mountains ahead that
Lieutenant Governor
wear you down, it's the sand in your shoes."
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
W. are dedicated to dumping the sand
TRIBUTE & TOAST
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and proparing people for the journey.
Youth of St. Mary's
KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND
As Walden/Sierra ends its third decade of providing Human Services to the citisens of ST.
Walden/Sterra, Inc.
Mary (County, we stand to abot the challenger that face us in the next millennium. IN
Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Towgaend's core mission is to make
keeping with our tradition of helping the most vulnerable populations, we have expande
Maryland's communities safer, stronger, and mom prosperous with
our services to provide a comprehensive array of programs.
innovative, effective answer) to the State's most critical challenges. She sought
to draw citizens into the search for solutions, engage their best efforts, and get
Crisis Services
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results
24-hour Hottine
part of A state-wide Hottine network
As Maryland's crime czar, the designer of a nationwide model child and
Walk-i crisis intervention services
Street Outreach
family services strategy, a champion for service and volulitecrism, and the
guiding force behind the State's reconomic development Kathleen
Counselling Services
Kennedy Townsead has sought to engage the hest energies of citizens, cut
Child Sexual Abuse
through ideological debates and focus on repults. Vice President AI Core said
Substance Abuse Therapy
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that "Kathleen has done more for her state than mont Governors."
Doméstic Violence
Family Services
Recognizing that strong, healthy communittergrow from strong, healthy
Rape Crisis
families, 11 Governor Townsend has redesigned Maryland's children and
Children First
family services to enable local communities to work together to meet the
Shelter Services
specific needs of families. To help parents spend more time with their
children, she helped lead the search for answers to many parents' juggle
Kathy Lawrence Adolescest Shelier foir youth in crisis
Sierra House - Residential treatment center for adolescent girls
between work and family, and held a national summit to draw attention to
Shelter Services for abused or homeless women and their children
proven solutions. La. Government ownitend also began one of the first
statewide character education imliatively in mycointry, 16 reinforce parents'
Prevention Services
efforts to teach their shildrep our share Valureting ideals "Every child has
We work cooperatively with other county agencies to provide prevention and education
the ability and the responsibility to make the world around them better
programs to our citizens.
place La. Governor Townserld Said:, They have a hero inside them We
have an obligation to offer them the tools they need to becorite those heroes."
Walden/Sierre, Inc.
Board of Directors
WALDEN/SIERRA, INC.
LT.GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
Before becoming Ls. Goverpor, Mrs. Townsend served as Deputy Assistant
Attorney General in the US Department of Justice; made Maryland the first
Ken Farquhar
President
State in the country to include a high school community service requirement
Abell Longunore
Vioe President
as the founder and executive diréctor of the Maryland Student Service
Pappy Wade
Treasurer
Alliance; chaired the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial foundation and founded
Jane Sypher
Secretary
the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award; serves on the board of the
Lanny Lancaster
Past President
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; and taught at the University of
Sue Gelrud
Past President
Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC), and at
Kathleen O'Brien, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Essex and Dundalk Community Colleges.
Anne Dell
Michael Freeman
The eldest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, LL Governor Townsend lives
Tobie Bush
J. Alonzo Gaskin
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in Haltimore County with her husband, David, a professor at St. John's
Carol Eache
Mendi Nelson
College in Annapolis. They have four daughters, Meaghan (21) Maeve (19),
Jan Norris
Kate (15), and Kerry (7).
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November 12
DALDEN/SIERRA, INC.
"Help for Today, Hope for Tomorrow"
Kathleen O. O'Brien, Ph.D.
23130 Moakley Street Leonardtown. Maryland 20650
Executive Director
SH
September 22, 1999
Ms. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Lieutenant Governor
State House
100 State Circle
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Dear Kathleen:
Ecstatic is the word that best describes our Board, staff and community reaction to the
news that you have agreed to be our Guest of Honor at our Walden/Sierra fundraiser on
November 12, 1999.
It is our intention to "toast" you in honor of all the contributions your efforts as Lt.
Governor have made in the lives of the families of St. Mary's County. Walden/Sierra
has been able to provide many innovative programs because of your work.
Dr. Maggie O'Brien will be the Mistress of Ceremony for this wonderful event. We have
met and can assure you that there will be no "shenanigans"!
We are grateful for your generous and gracious acceptance of our invitation and look
forward to having you and your family in Southern Maryland for this fun evening of
celebration.
Warm Regards,
Katly
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Kenneth J. Farquhar
Abell Longmore
Charles Wade
Jane Sypher
Harry Lancaster
Sue Galrud
President
Vice Presiders
Treasure
Secretary
Past President
Past President
MEMBERS:
Anne Bell
Tabie Bush
Corols Esch
Michael Freeman
J. Alonzo Caskin
Mindi Nelson
Jan Nome
OD
Hotline: 301-863-6661
FAX: 301-997-1321
Administrative Offices: 301-997-13*
Sierra House: 301-862-4212
TTY: 301-863-6664
A United Way Agency
SEP 24 1999
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Saturday, November
WALDEN/SIERRA, INC.
"Help for Today, Hope for Tomorrow"
Kathleen O. D'Briert, Ph.D.
23130 Moakley Street Leonardtown, Maryland 20550
Executive Director
May 27, 1999
Ms. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Lieutenant Governor
State House
100 State Circle
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Dear Lt. Governor Townsend:
In appreciation of your leadership and tireless efforts on behalf of the citizens of
Southern Maryland, the Walden/Sierra Board of Directors would like to honor you at
our Annual Walden/Sierra Roast. The funds raised at this event go directly to support a
variety of programs including our Runaway Shelter, our Domestic Violence Services, our
Student Assistance program and our HotSpots initiative. The event is always at St.
Mary's county favorite, due in large part to our "Roastee's" who in the past have
included Congressman Steny Hoyer, Ted Lewis, joe Marion Gough, and Mary
Catherine Bell. This year, Dr Maggic O'Brien has agreed to be our Mistress of
Ceremony. As you can see, you'll be in good company!
The tentative date is the evening of Saturday, November 13, 1999 at the Cedar
Officers' Club. However, if you are unavailable, we will work to accommodate your
busy schedule. We will check with your office to confirm your acceptance and available
dates as well as answer any questions you may have about the Roast.
So that you can get an idea of what the evening entails, I have enclosed a program copy
from our Roast honoring Congressman Hoyer. I look forward to calking with you scon
and remember, we promise to only toast and not burn you!
Sincerely,
anneBell
Anne Bell
on will be honored entire to or Mays Comming
Chairman, Special Events
Charles Wage
Marry Lencaster
Kaxey - Premiers
Poader
?
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Kenneth J. Perquher
Abell Longmore
Jame Sypher
Sug-Gatrud
President
View President
Treasury
Secretary
Plat Proders
REMBERS:
Anna Ball
Toble Bush
Cards Each
Michael Freemon
J. Alonao Carkin
Mindi Molson
Jan Nomb
Hotline: 301-863-6661
FAX: 301-997-1321
Administrative Offices: 301-997-1318
Sierre House: 301-862-4212
TY 301-863-6664
A Dived Way Agency
Page B-0 THE ENTERPRISE, Lexington Park, Md., Friday. October 29, 1999
Kennedy Townsend to Be Guest
11/12/1999 15:09
Garden 1
Of Honor at Annual Roast
For a Ha
SMC's O'Brien Will Preside Over Evening's Festivities
Annmarie Garden present
This year Walden/Sierra will
al risk - have been moved to the
first Tales for a Haunted
served by Walden/Sierra. The
have L. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy
furefront through action, not just
event, to be held Saturday, Or
young people in its runaway shelter
from II a.m. to 4 p.m This evt
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Townsend as its guest of honor al
rhetoric. She seeks solutions, in-
often come only with the shirts on
free to all visitors. A safe tric
the 13th anmal roast. St. Mary's
valves people at all levels and cre-
their backs Funding is limited, so
treat held during daylight be
College President Maggie O'Brien
ates ways that policy quickly be
the roast provides for clothing and
will preside over the festlvities.
treats are being received by
comes practice in our communi-
shoes, provides recreational sup-
unable organizations, business
Friends will lightly "roast" the lieu-
ties, for our families," said Execu-
plies and ensures a festive holiday
outreach programs within the I
tenant governor and warmly
live Director Kathleen O'Brien.
season.
communication. No lickets are
"toast" her contributions.
"Hes inspiration and energy are
The 13th annual benefit roast is
quired. Admission Is free.
Under the leadership of the lieu-
contagious. To watch her in action
being held on Friday, Nov. 12 at the
tenant governor, the Issues of great
SI. Mary's College President
"Tales for a Haunted Trail
is 10 experience an education in
Cedar Point Officers' Chila Tickets
concern to Walden/Sierra - power.
character."
are $60 and may be obtained by
Maggle O'Brien will preside over
really shaped up nicely for a I
ty, substance abuse, domestic vio-
The proceeds from the road go
calling 301-907-1318. Reservations
festivilles during this year's
run event of this nature in
lence, safe communities, children
directly to the homeless youth
Walden/Sievre roast.
county," said Jennifer Drandon
are requested by Friday, Nov. 5.
rector of the event. The garden
Master Classes Offered
host almost 60 businesses, org
rations, outreach programs,
who have signed up to particips
On Modern Dance
Each of these entitles will
placed along the wooded paths
of the garden and personalise 13
LT.GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
The Southern Maryland Modern
explored and members are encour-
particular space in a Hallow
Dance Collective and Calvert Coun-
aged to chareograph and present
mode. Visitors will walk the pan
ty Parks and Recreation will spon-
their own works The Dance Collec-
pathway, trick-or-treating at es
sor two master classes in modern
live provides educational and per.
stop along the way, receivi
dance technique on Saturday and
formance opportunities for dancers
candy or goodies from each part
Sunday, Nov. 6 and 7 and Dec. 0 and
within the community and hosts
ipant.
5. The Saturday sessions will be
modern dance companies from
Thies will also host the melodi
held from noon to 2 pm and Sun-
Washington, D.C., Virginia Beach
of Christine Zirza who sings I
days from 10 a.m. lo noon at the
and Pittsburgh
mindful lyrtes over Arideace
Southern Community Center in
Carol Tester (artistic director,
chords, giving her a quality all h
lustry.
the Southern Maryland Modern
own. In addition, Sunshine's Cate
The instructor will be Ludovic Jo
Dance Collective) has an extensive
ing Co.- will be an hand. to fee
PAGE
livel, a dancer and choreographer
danee background with significant
those hungry shouls and goblis
from the highly acclaimed D.C.
accomplishments extending back to
Haunted storylelling will be told
dance company City Dance Ensem-
1962. She has studied with dozens of
Ludovic Jolivet of CityDance Ensemble leade the Southern Maryland
80
CCCT/CO/TT
The Council, Ring by Charlon
he. The class is Intended for sho
professional dance companies since
Modern Dance Collective in learning "Jisari."
Smith of Lothian from noon to
dents ages W and older with prior
the early 1570s, conceptrating most-
selected to participate in the
(on Post for the "Raw, Edgy Talent,"
p.m. and Halloween stories will 1
dance training. The fee is $15 per
y 00 various modern dance tech-
"Kennedy Center And School:
performs a diverse repertory cen-
read by Ruth Carnege of Last
class or $25 for the weekend BES-
niques, most notably including
Changing Education Through the
tered on its philosophy of creating
sion Space is United, so advanced
Alvin Nikoli, Clay Taliafero, Vanaye
Arts" Tesler has written dance cur-
works that are
registration is recommended. To
Alkena M Handrine Rells
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Walden/Sierra, Inc.
FY '2000
Grant Funding
State
Federal
Local
Source
Funding
Funding
Funding
Dept. of Health & Mental Eygiene
Alcohol & Drug Abuse Admin. - outpatient
$
596,675
$193,965
Alcohol & Drug Abuse Admin. - residential
7,382
162,867
Alcohol E Drug Abuse Admin - ICF
600,000.
HIV Education
$ 4,200
Dept. of Ruman Resources
CSA - office of Trans. Svcs . dom,viol.
80,000
CSA - Office of Trans. SVCB - sexual assault
74,259
CSA - Office of Trans. SVCE - homeless
67,241
victims of Crime - domestic violence
23,485
Victims of Crime - child abuse
32,354
Purchase of Service Fees - residential
247,065
Governor's office of Crime Control & Prev.
Bryne Diversion Project
141,393
Hot Spots - addictions & victim services
50,613
Violence Against Womens Act - advocate
21,553
Youth/Community Development
850
Department of Health & Human Services
ACYF - Street Outreach
105,572
10,357
ACYF - Runaway & Homeless Youth
100,000
10,000
Department of Justice
Juvenile Justice * purch of SVCC - res.
247,06$
Local Management Board
Return Diversion Project
42,309
St. Mary's County Government
174,481
TOTAL
$1,911,996
$832,652
$199,238
2000grnt
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MISSION STATEMENT
Walden/Sierra is a community based health agency. The mission is to improve the quality
of mind and spirit of the community. We do this by providing leadership and standards of quality
in identifying, developing and providing professional services. We endeavor to promote the well
being of children to conserve and strengthen individual and family life.
HISTORY
Walden/Sierra was established to provide general crisis intervention, substance abuse
treatment and mental health support services to the citizens of St. Mary's County. Through the
years we have evolved from a minimally staffed alternative service program to a large and
nationally recognized agency. Yet, we have retained our original commitment to identifying
underserved populations, and to developing a variery of innovative and cost-effective programs
which can meet their special needs.
Staffing - Caring professionals - psychologists, social workers, counselors, and addiction
specialists, committed to helping people understand and resolve conflicts and problems associated
with drug abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, family dysfunction, adolescent adjustment,
suicide and other mental health crisis situations.
Organization - A non-profit corporation under the direct supervision of a Board of Directors
operating in county buildings under the auspices of the St. Mary's County Commissioners.
Funding - Funded by St. Mary's County Government, State and Federal grants. Clients are
charged fees based on State sliding fee scales. Crisis intervention services are provided free of
charge. Sierra House residents must be eligible for Social Service, Juvenile Justice, or Mental
Health fee for service contracts to pay the non-grant funded portion of costs. Tax deductible
donations are accepted by all programs
Licensure - Licensed by the State of Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration and the Department of Human Resources. Social
Services Administration.
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CRISIS SERVICES
Providing professional intervention, referral and assistance to anyone in need
24 hour hotline, walk-in crisis intervention services
Rape crisis and sexual assault emergency assistance
Emergency shelter beds for children and adolescents and victims of domestic violence
Outreach
PREVENTION SERVICES
Prevention/Education presentations to promote healthy adjustments and prevent substance abuse,
AIDS, domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, suicide and other dysfunctional behaviors.
Available to any group or individual in St. Mary's County.
*Professional Speakers Bureau
*Training Seminars
ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION/REFERRALS
Professional assessment, evaluations and referral process to help clients clarify problems and
issues, to identify needed services and to develop appropriate treatment planning and goals.
COUNSELING SERVICES
A comprehensive multi-services approach with the goal of providing short term, solution oriented
treatment for individuals, couples and families whos re facing a crisis in their lives. Specialized
service areas include:
Domestic Violence
"Individual, group, family and couples therapy provided to victims of domestic violence and their
families. Group counseling for barterers is available.
"Advocacy and accompaniment to help clients obtain necessary services and meet their basic
needs for housing, food, medical care and employment.
Victims of Sexual Asssult/Abuse
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"Individual, group, family and couples therapy provided to child victims, adult rape victims and
adults molested as children.
"Medical accompaniment and advocacy services.
Substance Abuse
*Individual, group, family and couples therapy provided to assist those troubled by substance
abuse and to provide support services to family members.
"Intensive Outpatient services
"Relapse prevention services
The full range of service is available to referrals for DWI evaluation/assessment.
*DWI/MVA Educarion/Tresument Services
"26 week DWI treatment program
*12 hour education program
*3 hour education program for new license applicants
CHILDREN FIRST
Individual and group services for troubled children and adolescents with support services for
family members.
*Adolescent Education/Therapy groups
"Adolescent Relapse Prevention group
"Adolescent Alcohol Citation group
*Children of Domestic Violence group
"Children/Adolescent victims of Sexual Assault/Abuse.
"Children Cope with Divorce, Rollercoasters, For Kids' Sake
COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES
"Maryland Student Assistance Program (MSAP) - Counselors work with school based teams to
assess high risk youth.
*Juvenile Court Assessors
"Hotspots Initiative
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RESIDENTIAL SERVICES
Kathy Lawrence Adolescent Shelter - provides short term emergency shelter for 6 youths.
Sierra House . Therapeutic Group Home/Residential Treatment Center for 14 adolescent girls
who have a history of substance abuse and adjustment problems.
Shelter Service for Women - provides crisis stabilization and emergency shelter services for
women and their children who are victims of domestic violence.
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REMARKS FOR KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND DINNER
ST. MARY'S CHURCH
November 12, 1999
This is a surprise toast for me as well as it is for you, Lt. Governor. So I'll make it
mercifully brief.
I'm so glad to have the opportunity to say a few words about somebody I've been so
luck to get to know over the years.
I have a pretty small office in the White House, but there are a lot of objects of interest.
There's the view of the Rose Garden. The federal period mirror with the gilded eagle. Photos
of the President's trips abroad. The occasional visitor is usually drawn to these objects.
Not Kathleen. She focuses on two things: The stack of book on my desk that's headed
in for the President's personal reading - and the bowl of candy that sits on the edge of my
desk. The Lieutenant Governor has a voracious appetite for both.
In fact, every time she visits I have to gently remind her: Kathleen, you can take the
candy, but you we're not giving away the books.
No, seriously, one of the great thrills of my job is having the opportunity to meet
leaders of great stature. It is a particular pleasure when they conduct themselves with the
grace, openness and sheer joy of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. It is that warmth and spirit
which guides her work for the people of Maryland - and drives her dedication to the important
causes of our time. Tonight's event is but one example of that commitment. Walden-Sierra is
an organization that is very dear to my heart, to my husband's, and to the many individuals in
my community who care deeply about the future of our nation's children.
So Kathleen, I want to thank you for being a first-rate Lieutenant Governor and such a
good friend to all of us - and a great friend to the President and the First Lady.
Maryland Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
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LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND
KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND, Lieutenant Governor
(Democrat)
State House
Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 974-2804
fax: (410) 974-5882
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Maryland's first woman lieutenant governor, has made it her mission to
build safe communities across the state through a comprehensive strategy that targets high-risk offenders,
reclaims high-risk neighborhoods, protects and supports victims, and prevents youth violence, drug use,
and gangs. The backbone of the strategy is to create new partnerships between citizens, police, the business
and religious communities, and public agencies. To develop and oversee the State's anti-crime efforts,
Governor Parris N. Glendening appointed her Chair of the Cabinet Council on Criminal and Juvenile
Justice, which consists of nine cabinet secretaries and the Attorney General.
Through the work of the Cabinet Council and a series of 15 regional crime summits she held across
Maryland, Lt. Governor Townsend developed the first statewide initiative in the nation that systematically
targets "hotspots," specific places that account for the lion's share of crime. Hailed by U.S. Attorney
General Reno as a national model, the Maryland HotSpot Communities Initiative pulls together previously
scattered government agency operations and grant funds to target 36 high-crime and at-risk neighborhoods
across the state with an unprecedented array of resources for community policing, probation enforcement,
nuisance abatement, youth violence prevention, and community mobilization.
Mrs. Townsend spearheaded the establishment of Operation Maryland Cease Fire and the Maryland
Community Policing Academy. Cease Fire is the first State Police unit to target illegal gun traffickers.
Since its inception in 1995, the unit has confiscated hundreds of assault weapons and other illegal firearms,
and closed a gun store that sold weapons traced to a dozen murders. Also a national first, the Maryland
Community Policing Academy trains police and citizens together to build the mutual trust that enables
communities to shut down open-air drug markets and make lasting reductions in crime and fear.
Lt. Governor Townsend also is working to strengthen the juvenile justice system, ensuring that violent
juveniles are prosecuted as adults, while holding first-time and minor offenders accountable for their
actions. She helped craft and secure passage of legislation that changes the mission of Maryland's juvenile
courts to emphasize public safety and offender accountability, as well as help juveniles become responsible
citizens. Other measures require that courts deliver swift sanctions and police notify schools when they
arrest students for major offenses. In addition, they place juvenile probation officers inside at-risk schools,
and increase the amount of restitution juveniles pay their victims.
Mrs. Townsend has strengthened the adult criminal justice system as well. She and Governor Glendening
sponsored legislation to reduce delays in applying the death penalty and instituted a new policy of refusing
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to grant parole to offenders sentenced to life in prison. The Lt. Governor also is expanding the use of
cost-effective intermediate punishments, such as boot camps and home detention for nonviolent offenders.
Her Break-the-Cycle Initiative is an unprecedented statewide effort to cut drug-related crime by targeting
drug-addicted offenders on probation and parole. These offenders are subject to frequent drug testing and
escalating sanctions for each failed test as a way to motivate them to stay in treatment and remain drug- and
crime-free.
Along with key legislators, Mrs. Townsend also led the campaign to tighten Maryland's drunk driving laws,
working to pass legislation that makes it easier to convict motorists caught driving with blood-alcohol
levels of .10 or above.
While tough enforcement and punishment are essential, Mrs. Townsend strongly believes that prevention
must be an equal priority. Through the Cabinet Council, she crafted legislation to increase teachers'
authority to remove disruptive students from the classroom and establish a statewide student Code of
Discipline. Mrs. Townsend created the first state Character Education Office in the nation so schools can
help parents teach their children core values, such as honesty, fairness, respect, responsibility, and other
ethical behavior. She also has quadrupled the amount of the state's grant funding for after-school activities
for high-risk youth.
As the official responsible for administering the federal Violence Against Women Act in Maryland, and as
Co-Chair of the Maryland Family Violence Council, along with state Attorney General J. Joseph Curran,
Jr., Mrs. Townsend is overseeing legal and policy changes needed to protect victims of domestic violence,
hold abusers accountable, and break the cycle of violence between generations. Legislation recommended
by the Council has strengthened civil protection orders and other safeguards for victims.
Before becoming Lt. Governor, Mrs. Townsend served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S.
Department of Justice. She was responsible for a budget of over a billion dollars to support local law
enforcement and establish community policing programs across the country.
Committed to providing quality education for all citizens, Mrs. Townsend has taught at the University of
Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), and Essex and Dundalk Community
Colleges. She was the first Executive Director of the Maryland Student Service Alliance, a public-private
partnership she founded with the State Department of Education to inspire young people to serve their
communities. Under her leadership, Maryland became the first state in the nation to require that all high
school students perform community service. The Alliance also launched Civic Works, an urban service
corps which puts young adults to work while teaching critical job skills.
In addition, Mrs. Townsend, a long-time advocate for children and families, served as Chair of the
Governor's Task Force on Children, Youth, and Families Systems Reform in 1996, and currently chairs the
External Advisory Board of the Kennedy-Krieger Institute's Early Infant Transition Center. She is a
life-long champion of environmental conservation and a strong proponent of international trade and
economic development. In all these areas, the Lt. Governor has been actively involved, privately and
professionally, publishing articles in the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the
Ladies Home Journal, the Washington Monthly, and in several law reviews. Mrs. Townsend is the founder
of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, the former Chair of the Board of the Robert F. Kennedy
Memorial Foundation, and serves on the Board of Directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
She was elected Chair of the nation's Democratic Caucus of Lt. Governors. She is founding Chair of the
Board of Advisors of Maryland's Character Education Initiative, and past Chair of the Peabody Institute
Oversight Committee. Mrs. Townsend serves on the national Board of Advisors of the Export-Import Bank
of the United States (EX-IM Bank), The Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International
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Studies (SAIS), and the Institute of Human Virology of the University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Institute for Women's
Policy Research, and the Board of Partners of Radcliffe College.
Born on July 4, 1951, Mrs. Townsend is the eldest child of the late Senator and U.S. Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy and Mrs. Ethel S. Kennedy. Mrs. Townsend is a cum laude graduate of Harvard
University and a graduate of the University of New Mexico Law School, where she was an editor of the
law review. She has received many honorary degrees. Mrs. Townsend lives in Baltimore County with her
husband, David, a professor at St. John's College in Annapolis, and two of their four daughters, Kate (15),
and Kerry (7). Her oldest daughters, 21-year-old Meaghan and 19-year-old Maeve are in their senior and
sophomore years of college.
Signature Initiatives of Lt. Governor
KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland since 1995.
Member, Governor's Executive Council, 1995-. Chair, Cabinet Council on Criminal and Juvenile Justice,
1995-. Co-Chair, Maryland Family Violence Council, 1995-. Chair, State House Trust, 1995-. Chair,
Peabody Institute Oversight Committee, 1995-96. Chair, Task Force on Affiliation between Historic St.
Mary's City Commission and St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1996. Chair, Governor's Task Force on
Children, Youth, and Families Systems Reform, 1996. Member, Maryland Partnership for Children, Youth,
and Families, 1998-. Chair, Task Force to Study Increasing the Availability of Substance Abuse Programs,
1998-. Chair, Advisory Board on After-School Opportunity Programs, 1999-. Chair, Governor's Year 2000
Public Information Task Force, 1999-.
Senior advisor, Appropriations Committee, House of Delegates, 1984-85. Assistant attorney general,
Maryland, 1985-86. Member, Economic Development Commission, Baltimore County, 1987. Executive
Director, Maryland Student Service Alliance, State Department of Education, 1987-93. Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1993-94.
Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, July 4, 1951. Harvard University, B.A. (history & literature), cum laude;
University of New Mexico School of Law, J.D., 1978. Attorney. Delegate, Democratice Party National
Convention, 1988, 1996. Chair, Democratic Caucus of Lt. Governors. Board of Advisors, Export-Import
Bank of the United States (EX-IM Bank); Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns
Hopkins University; Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental
Science. Board of Directors, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; National Institute for Women's Policy
Research. Chair, External Advisory Board, Early Infant Transition Center, Kennedy-Krieger Institute.
Board of Partners, Radcliffe College.
Maryland Constitutional Offices & Agencies
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Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Signature Initiatives
Student Service
Prior to taking office, Lt. Governor Townsend developed the nation's first and only statewide mandatory
student service program to ensure that children learn the habits of citizenship and civic involvement. In
1997, the first graduating class of Maryland high school students completed the 75 hours of community
service required for a diploma.
Character Education
Under the Lt. Governor's leadership, Maryland became the first state in the nation to establish a
statewide Office of Character Education, so schools support parents in teaching children core values
such as honesty, fairness, courage, respect and responsibility.
Police Corps
Modeled after President Kennedy's Peace Corps and the military's ROTC, the national Police Corps
program is the culmination of Lt. Governor Townsend's 15-year effort to promote public service
through law enforcement by providing scholarships to college students in return for a four-year
commitment to serve as a police officer. The first class of 44 cadets graduated in 1997 from Maryland's
academy with special instruction in ethics, fitness and leadership.
Hotspot Communities Initiative
Developed by the Lt. Governor when she served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice
Department, this national model is the first statewide effort that systematically targets high-crime
neighborhoods with a comprehensive array of enforcement and prevention strategies. The initiative
coordinates hundreds of previously fragmented efforts, sparking unprecedented cooperation among
government agencies and mobilizing thousands of citizens in the fight against crime.
Gun Enforcement Initiative
Lt. Governor Townsend has opened a second front in the battle against gun violence, balancing
Maryland's tough gun laws with an unprecedented effort to target illegal gun traffickers who supply
weapons to criminals and juveniles. The initiative launched a new State Police Office of Gun
Enforcement to coordinate statewide investigations, tracing and ballistics testing of every firearm
recovered by police, and assign the first state trooper in the nation to serve as liaison to the federal
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).
Break the Cycle
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Lt. Governor Townsend's "Break the Cycle" Initiative is a groundbreaking effort to cut drug-related
crime by targeting offenders on probation and parole, those mostly likely to commit crimes to support
their drug habits. Bypassing the national debate between punishment and rehabilitation, Break the
Cycle combines the two approaches by requiring addicted offenders to undergo frequent drug testing
and face escalating penalties for each failed test to motivate them to stay in treatment and remain
drug-free.
Afterschool Program Initiative
Recognizing that the bulk of juvenile crime and teen pregnancy occurs in the afterschool hours, before
parents return home from work, Lt. Governor Townsend established the Maryland Afterschool Program
Initiative. She has quadrupled funding for programs that use mentoring, tutoring and other proven
"best practices" to prevent youth violence, drug use, gangs and other high-risk behavior.
Spotlight in Schools
Acting forcefully to prevent school violence, Lt. Governor Townsend spearheaded the placement of
juvenile probation officers directly into 80 at-risk schools across the state. These officers are uniquely
able to focus on those students most apt to commit violent acts, keeping them under close supervision,
reducing classroom disruption and helping resolve disputes before they escalate.
Work & Family Solutions
As more and more women have entered the workforce, Americans have increasingly struggled to
balance the daily demands of work and family. In June 1998, Lt. Governor Townsend convened a
national summit, "Solutions: Women's Juggle for Time," to spotlight creative and practical solutions
for business, government, communities and individuals. The solutions identified will help the State of
Maryland lead the nation to policies and practices based on "what works."
Domestic Violence
Under the Lt. Governor's leadership, Maryland is instituting one of the most comprehensive statewide
efforts in the nation to prevent and reduce domestic violence. Through the Family Violence Council,
which she co-chairs, the State has strengthened laws and established dozens of new programs and
policies to protect victims, hold batterers accountable, and break the cycle of abuse that passes between
generations.
Maryland's Promise
Lt. Governor Townsend is leading Maryland's effort to mobilize and sustain thousands of volunteers
from the private and public sectors to bring five critical resources to the 38,000 children most at-risk in
the state. The initiative creates "Communities of Promise" in partnership with businesses, local
governments, and charitable, service and volunteer organizations in each of Maryland's 24 local
jurisdictions.
Partnership for Children, Youth and Families
Lt. Governor Townsend is directing Maryland's "reinventing government" effort to improve the
effectiveness of services for children and families. By eliminating duplicated services, establishing
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measurable results, and transferring decision-making authority to local boards, the initiative is
reinvesting savings in prevention efforts and creative new programs that improve the lives of children
and families.
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HEADLINE: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
BYLINE: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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OCCUPATION
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
BIRTHDAY
July 4, 1951
HOMETOWN
Baltimore
MARITAL STATUS
Married; four daughters
SELF-PORTRAIT
Strong, loyal, thoughtful, energetic, gracious
MOTTO
"Never, never, never give up!" - Churchill
WALTER MITTY FANTAYS
Climbing Mount Everest and K-2
INSPIRATION
Husband David
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GREATEST FEAT
Getting all students in Maryland to do community service
BAD HABITS
Not taking "No" for an answer
PET PEEVES
Matching socks
HOBBY
History and poetry
LUXURY DEFINED
Hugging all four daughters on the couch, watching "The Sound of Music"
DRINK OR WINE
Chocolate milk shake with coffee ice cream
FAVORITE RESTAURANT
Any Greek or Mexican dinner
VACATION SPOT
Hiking American wilderness areas
CLOTHING STORE
A friend's closet
TV PROGRAM
"Meet the Press"
CAR IN GARAGE
'90 Chevy truck, but no garage
BOOKS AT BEDSIDE
"Failure Is Impossible," Susan B. Anthony "Letters From Prison," Adam Michnik
LAST WORDS
"Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee."
GRAPHIC: Illustration, NO CAPTION
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HEADLINE: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend;
JUST LIKE HER FATHER?
BYLINE: Sally B. Donnelly
BODY:
When Professor David Townsend and his former student Kathleen Kennedy were married, their
friends gave them a potter's wheel. It seemed like a good idea at the time. "Kathleen has all the
attributes [for it]: focus, persistence, a spiritual side and immense desire to complete the work,"
says David. She was destined, he thought, to be a wonderful wife, mother--and potter.
The potter's wheel sits still now, covered by cobwebs, in the basement. And Kathleen Kennedy
Townsend, 48, the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, has emerged as the most promising of the
next wave of political Kennedys. Although she is the only Kennedy ever to lose an election--she was
beaten in a congressional race in 1986--she has since been elected twice statewide. And after five
years in the job, where she has focused on fighting crime and boosting economic development, she is
preparing to run for Governor in 2002. Her ambitions still reach beyond the state line.
Townsend is the most moderate among the third generation of vote-seeking Kennedys. Her
initiatives on the social front are infused with moral reproof. Break the Cycle, for example, is an
antidrug effort that requires offenders on parole or probation--those most likely to go back to a life of
crime--to take frequent drug tests and face harsh and escalating penalties if they fail. "Her landmark
work on crime, community service and character education serves as a national model for New
Democrats," says AI From, president of the Democratic Leadership Council.
"It wasn't obvious my wife would ever become a public person," David told TIME. "It took a long
time." And certainly it was not assumed, even by the election-oriented Kennedys, that the girls in the
family were meant for the job. But the young Kathleen, as the first grandchild of Joseph Kennedy,
was nonetheless expected to serve in some way. Two days after President Kennedy was assassinated
in 1963, Kathleen's father Robert wrote his 12-year-old daughter a note on White House stationery:
"As the oldest of the next generation you have a particular responsibility Be kind to others and work
for your country. Love, Daddy."
Like many in the clan, Townsend grew up with football and politics and the Washington social swirl
and got the requisite Harvard degree. She courted David during a trip down the Mississippi River on
a homemade raft just after Hurricane Agnes in 1972. They were married in 1973, and a law degree
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and children followed. Her involvement in politics consisted mainly of volunteering for her uncle Ted's
campaigns and stumping for local and congressional Democratic candidates. But two years after the
family moved to David's home state of Maryland, in 1984, she decided to run for a congressional
seat. The district was strongly Republican and the Democrats were in disarray, but Kathleen told her
husband, "Someone has to run, and this is where my kids are going to grow up." She ran as a
Townsend and lost. "That loss was good for her," says former U.S. Senator Joe Tydings, who has
been close to the family for decades. "Kathleen is just like her father. She is a learner. She had a lot
to learn."
Speech coaches, contact lenses, makeup and hairstyling were part of that education. When
gubernatorial candidate Parris Glendening chose her to be his running mate in 1994, experts doubted
she would help the ticket. But her name recognition--this time she used Kennedy Townsend--and her
fund-raising skills proved them wrong.
Townsend has taken her father's admonition to heart and added to it the special stoicism that comes
from being the tribe's eldest. Her family nicknames include "Clean Kathleen," "the Nun" and "the
Un-Kennedy." Says longtime friend Tim Hagen, a former local politician in Ohio whom she met while
working for her uncle Ted's 1980 presidential campaign: "At times Kathleen is so resolute she does
not accept the irreconcilable." Indeed, her staff says one of her favorite words is "unacceptable."
The weekend John Kennedy Jr.'s plane went down, Townsend was in Hyannis Port helping friends and
family deal with the tragedy. "Kathleen has no time for self-pity," says someone close to the family.
"She knows she and her family have been blessed in so many ways." She spent last week mostly at
home with David and their four daughters.
Townsend has discovered her political talents relatively late in life, but her husband believes it is a
natural development for her. Kathleen is still shaping things, but this time it's civic life. "Politics is
like pottery, only with a different kind of clay."
GRAPHIC: COLOR PHOTO: BLAKESELL--REUTERS, "THE UN-KENNEDY" Eldest of the family's third
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SUDDENLY, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the new heir to the Kennedy mantle - Maryland's
lieutenant governor is being talked up as her state's next governor, if not AI Gore's veep running
mate.
When the nation is as fixated on one event as it was on John F. Kennedy Jr.'s fatal plane crash, the
whole political climate can shift. But this time, analysts say, the impact seems to be
Kennedy-specific.
"This was one of those rare national obsessionary events that had no impact on the national political
climate," says a Democratic strategist who contrasts it with how the Columbine HS killings spurred
the gun-control effort.
"But in Maryland, suddenly Kathleen Kennedy Townsend [a daughter of Ethel and Bobby] is being
perceived as the next Kennedy," the strategist says.
"She was the front-runner for governor, but now she's being looked at as one of the brightest of the
next generation, almost an icon."
Besides, Gore's other female veep prospect, New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, was washed
away in his own Watergate when she co-paddled his canoe in the photo op that cost billions of
gallons of wasted water.
Post pollster John Zogby said the warm glow of Camelot-remembered could also help
ex-congressman Joe Kennedy Jr. revive his political career, which he scrapped after a messy divorce.
"Now it's not as unfashionable to be a Kennedy as it was over the last few years. One can
conceivably talk seriously about Joe Jr. coming back and running for Massachusetts governor," Zogby
said.
Republican pollster John McLaughlin thinks the real significance is that, while the nation obsessed on
the crash, GOPers in Congress - free of the spotlight's glare - finally got their act together on tax
cuts.
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HEADLINE: Eldest Kennedy cousin takes on leadership role
BYLINE: By ToM STUCKEY, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: ANNAPOLIS, Md.
BODY:
In a family known for glamour, adventure and, sometimes, calamitous misadventure, Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend is often called the good Kennedy, the quiet Kennedy, clean Kathleen - and only
partly in jest.
Over the last two decades, while more famous relatives moved in Washington's power corridors and
otherwise made headlines, the first child of Robert Kennedy built a career in public service; raised
four daughters, ages 7 to 21, with her college professor husband; and, as the eldest of 30 Kennedy
cousins, rallied the family in times of trouble.
Now, after five years as Maryland's lieutenant governor, Ms. Townsend is in position to step
forward as the political standard-bearer for her generation of Kennedys.
The family patriarch, of course, remains U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy. His son, Patrick, a congressman
from Rhode Island, has proven himself a skilled fund-raiser and heads the House campaign
committee that helps elects Democrats. Ms. Townsend's younger brother, Joseph, left Congress last
year after six terms, but speculation has him re-entering politics in the future.
Ms. Townsend, though, is already considered the frontrunner for Maryland governor in the 2002
election, and her name has also surfaced - among many others - as a possible vice presidential
running mate for Democrat Al Gore.
The only other Kennedy of her generation in elected office is cousin Mark Shriver, a Maryland state
lawmaker.
Ms. Townsend, 48, has the characteristic toothy Kennedy smile but has had to work hard to pick up
the political skills her father and uncles exhibited so effortlessly. One family trait she never lacked,
however, is the competitive Kennedy spirit, especially in sports.
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Former Sen. Joseph Tydings, a close friend of Robert Kennedy, remembers a touch football game
when Kathleen was 10 or 11. She and her father went up against Tydings and another man.
"I don't know if they beat us or not, but if they didn't, it was damned close," he said.
From an early age, Ms. Townsend was expected to shoulder some responsibility for her 10 siblings
and many cousins.
One of her most cherished possessions - framed and hanging in a hallway of her Victorian home in
suburban Baltimore - is this letter Robert Kennedy wrote to his 12-year-old daughter the day
President John F. Kennedy was buried:
"Dear Kathleen. You seem to understand that Jack died and was buried today. As the oldest of the
Kennedy grandchildren, you have a particular responsibility now - a special responsibility to John and
Joe. Be kind to others and work for your country. Love, Daddy."
The letter referred to her brother Joe and to cousin John Kennedy Jr., who had turned 3 that day.
The president's son was killed July 16 in a private plane crash off Martha's Vineyard. The Townsends
accompanied President Clinton and his family to New York City for the Kennedy memorial service
Friday.
Robert Kennedy's trust in his daughter was not misplaced. Friends say Ms. Townsend can be counted
on in times of trouble.
She took the lead in defending Joe against criticism he'd tried to bully his first wife into an
annulment of their 12-year marriage, two years after they divorced. In 1979, she went to court to
become brother David's legal guardian, to try to rescue him from drug abuse. He had the
guardianship revoked a year later and died of an overdose in 1984. Another brother, Michael, was
killed in a skiing accident Dec. 31, 1997.
Her husband, David, said in a 1997 interview with The Boston Globe Magazine that Ms. Townsend
"plays an enormous leadership role in the family. When something happens, like with one of her
brothers, she is called immediately."
Ms. Townsend's first run for office, for Congress in 1986, made her the first Kennedy to lose a
general election.
She picked up the pieces and formed the Maryland Student Service Alliance in partnership with the
state education department, where she developed the nation's only statewide program that requires
public school students to perform community service.
In 1993, she joined the U.S. Justice Department as a deputy assistant attorney general in charge of
community policing programs,
Some might have considered her brief political career long dead, but in 1994, Parris Glendening
surprised all of Maryland by asking her to be his lieutenant governor running mate. They won by
fewer than 6,000 votes but last year won re-election with a margin of almost 150,000.
Ms. Townsend now "enjoys extremely strong popularity across the state," says pollster Keith Haller of
Potomac Survey research.
While some of her beliefs diverge from liberal Democratic positions associated with Kennedys - she
supports the death penalty, for example - she has defended her positions as very much in line with
lessons learned from her father.
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A longtime friend, Democratic political consultant Bob Shrum, said positions may differ, "but if the
question is, does she carry on the underlying idealism that motivated her father, I think it's clear she
does."
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The Sunday Gazette Mail, July 25, 1999
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July 25, 1999, Sunday
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HEADLINE: Next generation of Kennedys a political force
BYLINE: John Mulligan The Providence Journal
BODY:
WASHINGTON - When John F. Kennedy Jr. pulled off the most successful
clandestine wedding in modern celebrity history, it was his young
cousin, the freshman congressman from Rhode Island, who blew his
cover.
"My cousin John did tie the knot," Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy blurted
when a reporter asked.
The nuptials of the late president's son off the Georgia coast were
still a secret that late-summer weekend in 1996. But somehow Patrick
Kennedy, raising money for an ultimately unsuccessful Democratic House
candidate in Steubenville, Ohio, had not gotten the word.
It was not the first time that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's son, then 29,
let himself in for a round of his family's fierce brand of ribbing.
But more tellingly for the younger generation of public servants, it
was not the first example of how some Kennedys have been at their
stations in the family business while the eye of the media was fixed
on Kennedy celebration, scandal or tragedy.
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Robert Kennedys, with all those horses and dogs," his mother once
recalled.
After his parents divorced, he also chose to live in Boston for some
of his teen years, and he broke with his father's world when he
switched from Washington's Georgetown University to insular Providence
College.
Total immersion
Once he decided on politics, however, Patrick Kennedy followed the
traditional family method of total immersion. No pizza party at the
Carroll Towers elderly housing project was too small for his
attention. No number of famous relations was too large to marshal for
door-to-door soliciting of starstruck voters in Mount Pleasant.
As a PC student, he won the middle-class neighborhood's seat in the
Rhode Island House and keeps a home there still.
Kennedy made a hard-eyed calculation upon arrival in a House
Democratic caucus that was decimated by the Republican landslide of
1994. He forsook the freshman's traditional path of scrounging for
scraps from the congressional pork barrel.
Thanks to his family-assisted ties to Minority Leader Richard A.
Gephardt of Missouri, Kennedy got a good assignment to the Armed
Services Committee. But he has devoted more energy and enthusiasm to
political combat than to legislative deal-making."
That was partly a matter of what Kennedy likes to call "making
lemonade out of lemons." A lowly freshman from the minority party
would not bring home much bacon. But on the money circuit, Kennedy had
the Midas touch, in large part because he had "my father's Rolodex,"
as he happily acknowledged.
"An unlimited future"
"Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has an unlimited future," said Al From,
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who as president of the Democratic Leadership Council has worked to
nudge the party toward the political center on issues from crime to
welfare reform. DLC alumnus Bill Clinton has built his presidency on
stealing Republican thunder in this fashion.
Townsend, the lieutenant governor of Maryland and the unannounced
front-runner in the 2002 governor's race, is a rising force in the
DLC, and "among the brightest young stars in the 'New Democrat'
movement nationally," From said.
If Townsend's maiden name gave her a head start in the family
business, she has worked herself to the verge of national stature,
said From, by taking her lumps and charting her own political course.
That course departed from liberal Democratic orthodoxy in her first
bid for elective office. Her platform in a 1986 run for a veteran
Republican's House seat included a national police force and a return
to the military draft.
Townsend took an 18-percentage-point shellacking from Rep. Helen
Delich Bentley that year.
"Home in on an issue"
"But Kathleen's response to political adversity was to home in on an
issue and build a reputation around the state," said From, who first
teamed with her in 1988. He cited Townsend's successful campaign in
the late 1980s to write youth community service into Maryland law.
The idea of national service, dating to President John F. Kennedy's
creation of the Peace Corps, has had a modest flowering with Clinton's
creation of AmeriCorps, a domestic youth service outfit.
By 1994, Townsend was widely viewed as an asset to the statewide
ticket in Parris N. Glendening's narrow election victory. Both were
easily re-elected in 1998. State law does not permit Glendening a
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third term, and Townsend seems poised to run for governor in three
years.
Close relationship
Joseph Kennedy was widely viewed as having bowed out of the 1998
Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign because of the media storm over
his former wife's published criticism of the annulment of their
wedding and over his now-deceased brother Michael's relationship with
a teen-age baby sitter.
But Goldman, Kennedy's longtime consultant, said there was another
factor: the desire to continue his close relationship with his twin
sons, soon to be college-age.
Joe Kennedy occupied the famous congressional seat of Tip O'Neill,
John F. Kennedy, James Michael Curley and - at the turn of the last
century - his great-grandfather, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald.
He did so with a bigger share of the fabled Kennedy charisma than his
sister Kathleen and his cousin Patrick. But he also displayed what
some House colleagues considered a full measure of the fabled Kennedy
arrogance.
In his introductory speeches as a freshman congressman, Patrick got a
sure-fire laugh by exaggerating the contrast between his humility and
his cousin's ferocity.
"I agree with the people in Massachusetts who say don't count Joe
out," said From. "I think he is a guy who has a lot of public service
left in him."
Consultant Goldman said that Joe Kennedy, like his cousin Patrick, may
be seeking his own way, apart from the Senate path trod by his father
and two uncles.
The growing willingness of young politicians of both parties to return
for service in "the real world is, I think, one of the healthiest
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March 30, 1999, Tuesday
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DISTRIBUTION: TO STATE EDITOR
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HEADLINE: Maryland Lieutenant Governor Launches 1999 Chiefs' Challenge; Statewide Law
Enforcement Child Passenger Safety Trailer Unveiled
BODY:
Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend commended the commitment and dedication
of law enforcement officials from across the State who joined her at the State House today to launch
the 1999 Maryland Chiefs' Challenge Campaign. The two-month campaign, aimed at increasing
awareness of and compliance with Maryland's safety belt and child safety seat laws, will run from
April 1 through May 31, 1999. The ultimate goal of the Chiefs' Challenge is to save lives,
prevent injuries, and reduce the health care costs associated with motor vehicle crashes.
During the ceremony, a new component to this statewide law enforcement campaign was unveiled. A
traveling child passenger safety trailer (one of four such vehicles), featuring graphics of properly
secured children on the exterior and information and equipment on the interior, will be a vital tool for
Maryland's law enforcement community to use during the Chiefs' Challenge and well beyond. It will
be a focal point at child safety seat checkup events where trained technicians help parents and
caregivers to achieve the proper (secure) installation of child safety seats and booster seats.
The Chiefs' Challenge campaign and the child passenger safety trailers are part of an ongoing
public-private partnership between the Maryland Chiefs of Police Association, Maryland Committee
For Safety Belt Use, Maryland SAFE KIDS Coalition, and the Maryland State Highway Administration.
This partnership continues to work as a team in order to help prevent the tragic and needless loss of
life which occurs when people do not buckle up. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of
unintentional injury-related death among children ages 14 and younger, as well as the leading cause
of all deaths for persons of every age from 6 to 27 years old. Additionally, of those children who
are restrained in car seats, four out of five are not restrained correctly.
"The Chiefs' Challenge is designed to help everyone," said Lieutenant Governor Townsend. "For the
next two months, large and small-sized law enforcement agencies, in rural and urban areas across
the state, will join together to conduct an intensive effort to get the citizens they serve to buckle up
and properly secure their children in safety seats. Those who do not wear seat belts or secure their
children in safety seats not only risk being pulled over and ticketed, but even more importantly, they
risk serious injury or death!"
The purpose of the Chiefs' Challenge is for law enforcement agencies to increase their efforts to
integrate safety belt and child safety seat enforcement into routine, daily traffic enforcement
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activities and to achieve a 90 percent safety belt usage rate by the end of 1999. Among the
law enforcement agencies participating in the launch ceremony were officials from corporate security
and university police departments, as well as municipal and county police agencies, sheriffs'
departments and the Maryland State Police.
"When it comes to safety belt use, Maryland law enforcement officers are neither complacent nor
accepting of the tragic and needless loss of life," said Sykesville Chief of Police Wallace Mitchell, Vice
President, Maryland Chiefs of Police Association. "Anyone who is not buckled up runs the risk of being
stopped for the violation. As we approach the time of year when driving is on the increase, we are
focusing our efforts on helping those motorists who still are not wearing a safety belt or buckling up
their children to form this lifesaving habit."
"The level of participation in the 1999 Chiefs' Challenge is commendable," said Barbara Beckett,
Executive Director of the Maryland Committee For Safety Belt Use. "With such a broad range of
support from some 47 agencies of all sizes throughout every region of Maryland, we anticipate that
this campaign will boost statewide usage rates to the 90 percent goal as well as help teach countless
Maryland families how to properly secure their children in child safety seats."
Assisting the Lieutenant Governor in launching the Chiefs' Challenge were two families whose
children were survivors of severe motor vehicle crashes. Both the Guarino family of Montgomery
County and the Dixon family from Baltimore had their children's safety seats inspected for proper
installation prior to their crashes. Each of the children and their parents serve as living proof of the
benefits of the proper use of safety belts and child safety seats. The addition of the State's new child
passenger safety trailers also will help to ensure that a greater number of Maryland families will
have access to child safety seat checkup events.
"Together, we are sending a message to all Marylanders that buckling up is a family affair," said
Lieutenant Governor Townsend. "Although no one can predict when they will be involved in a crash,
if they want to avoid receiving a ticket, and protect themselves and those they love, then they will do
the right thing and buckle up."
SOURCE Maryland Committee For Safety Belt Use
CONTACT: Meg Gobrecht of the Maryland State Highway Administration, 410-787-4077 or
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The Washington Post, February 14, 1999
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HEADLINE: 4 Years Of Effort Polish Townsend
BYLINE: Charles Babington, Washington Post Staff Writer
BODY:
Four years ago today, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend blundered her way through a speech before
500 restless welfare advocates in Annapolis. It was such a disaster that many political activists
concluded Maryland's new lieutenant governor wasn't ready to perform in the big leagues.
Last week she gave a pair of speeches one when President Clinton came visiting and a second
when Vice President Gore dropped in with the smooth delivery of a practiced orator. Then she
basked in the men's praise for the programs she had helped initiate. Gore, in particular, poured it on.
"Kathleen has done more as lieutenant governor for Maryland than most governors have done for
their states," the vice president said Friday as he saluted 27 new graduates of the state's Police
Corps program, which Townsend helped found.
Townsend's political ascendancy has startled many of the observers who had dismissed her as a
lightweight buoyed only by the Kennedy family name. A year or two ago, the early Democratic
favorites for the 2002 governor's race were Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan and
Baltimore County Executive C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger III.
Today, most political insiders agree that Townsend is the one to beat. She has noticeably improved
her speaking and campaigning skills while tirelessly crisscrossing the state to champion many
popular programs. She's more prepared for meetings, and even her wardrobe, makeup and hairstyle
look better. Once teased by friends for her indifference to fashion, Townsend, 47, now has a sharper,
more modern look, making occasional visits to salon, including Jean Paul's parlor in Washington.
"She's on a roll," said D. Bruce Poole, a Hagerstown lawyer and former majority leader in the
Maryland House of Delegates. "She has been out toiling in the vineyards for the last four years
She's been going to all the exchange clubs, making appearances at the PTA meetings. The
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cumulative effect of that can be very strong."
Despite her political lineage -- she's the eldest child of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy and the niece of
President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) -- Townsend was not a naturally
gifted speaker when Parris N. Glendening (D) tapped her as his running mate in 1994. She was
virtually hooted off a stage at St. John's College on Valentine's Day 1995, when she was unable to
explain to a large gathering of welfare advocates why the new Glendening-Townsend administration
had just axed a program for disabled people.
But Townsend, unlike many politicians, is thick-skinned and eager to have colleagues critique her
performances and recommend changes, say several people who know her well.
"She wants to learn, and she listens to people, and she reaches out for a lot of advice," said Peter
Hamm, chief spokesman for last fall's Glendening-Townsend reelection campaign. "She's got a
personal speech coach," Hamm said. "I remember the first time I heard her talking about it, trying to
pass along the tips to the governor. That didn't go over too well."
Over the last four years, Glendening has steadily given more responsibilities to Townsend, helping
her enhance her public image. She took the leading role on criminal justice and gun-control issues
during their first term, and now Glendening is handing her the reins for economic development and
worker training.
In return, Townsend has helped the governor, whose relationship with Maryland voters has never
been warm. By the time of the 1998 reelection campaign, Townsend proved so much more popular
than Glendening that she became a mainstay of their campaign TV ads, introducing him as a shy,
"quiet man."
Townsend, a lawyer and Harvard University graduate, has written dozens of magazine articles over
the years on juvenile justice, public education and other issues.
"She has always been very focused on the written word," said Alan H. Fleischmann, her chief of staff.
"Now she has become equally focused on the spoken word.
She did solicit advice from people,
both professional and from her staff."
Some who have watched Townsend over the last four years say she has improved in almost every
aspect of being a politician.
"There's been a big change, and the people of Maryland have gotten to know her better," said
Daphne Bloomberg, a Democratic activist from Montgomery County who considers herself a friend to
both Townsend and Duncan, who may face each other in the 2002 Democratic primary for governor.
"She knows how to say thank you. She pays close attention to who helps. She has absolutely a 4.0
[or straight A's] staff around her, and they work as a family."
Not all Maryland officials and politicians are convinced that Townsend has made dramatic strides. A
few legislators still roll their eyes at the mention of her name, remembering speeches or committee
hearings where she seemed more like a cheerleader than a persuasive policy advocate.
Several key players say they are keeping an open mind, waiting to be convinced.
"I think she's going to try," said Champe C. McCulloch, president of the Maryland Chamber of
Commerce, regarding Townsend's efforts to WOO the business community. "If she does, I think
business people are willing to be open-minded. Someone who carries the Kennedy name in Congress
is not generally seen as a friend of business. But she's a different person."
Still, many observers say Townsend is a more disciplined, predictable speaker who has curbed her
tendency to veer into odd, perplexing comments. In a 1997 commencement speech at Cecil County
Community College, for example, she baffled many graduates by noting how cute they probably were
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as kindergartners, then adding: "Notice I emphasize were!"
Townsend now sticks more closely to her prepared speeches, and when she speaks
extemporaneously, she seldom wanders into such asides. Some associates say it's because friends
have told her to knock it off, and she listened.
"She's always open to constructive ideas and constructive criticism," Fleischmann said.
In an interview Friday, after she introduced Gore at the Police Corps ceremony in Linthicum,
Townsend declined to discuss details of her self-improvement program, such as her speech coach.
But she said: "What I have done, basically, is ask for advice almost everywhere I go. After an event
such as this one, I would ask what went right, what went wrong, what could we do better. So I'm
always anxious to hear people's comments about what our office could do better, how we could be
more responsive."
Townsend said Marylanders feel more comfortable with her because she has attended hundreds of
meetings dealing with her pet projects, including: the "HotSpots" program that concentrates
resources from the community, police agencies and other institutions on high-crime areas;
community service programs now required of all Maryland high school students; and a "Break the
Cycle" program aimed at keeping parolees, probationers and inmates drug-free.
"I think people see me as someone who gets things done," she said.
Friends and skeptics alike agree that her Kennedy connection gives her a big political advantage. She
attracts volunteers and campaign contributors from throughout the nation in a way no other
lieutenant governor can match.
Allies, however, note that Townsend lost a congressional bid in the Baltimore suburbs in 1986, and
they say she can't win a statewide election on her famous name alone. That's why she works long
hours, generally six days a week, to underscore her role as a promoter of substantial public policy
innovations, they say.
Polls and focus groups in 1998 found that Maryland voters "are obviously aware of who her family
is," said Bob Shrum, the Glendening-Townsend campaign's media adviser last fall. "But they mostly
judge her as an individual. They're certainly knowledgeable about the crime stuff" that Townsend has
championed. "There's a lesser sense -- but it's still real -- with children" and education programs.
Aides say Sen. Kennedy, Townsend's uncle, made numerous fund-raising phone calls on her behalf in
1998. They say he and other family members now realize she may go farther in politics than her
brothers and cousins.
"I sense the powers within the Kennedy hierarchy have said it's show time," Poole said, and
Townsend may be the first of her generation ready for the big stage.
Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend at an event with Gov. Parris N. Glendening.
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JANUARY 5, 1999, TUESDAY
SECTION: WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING
LENGTH: 4617 words
HEADLINE: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON AT EVENT
ON THE LINK BETWEEN DRUGS, CRIME AND PRISONS
ALSO SPEAKING:
GENERAL BARRY MCCAFFREY, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL OFFICE
ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET RENO
REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES RANGEL (D-NY)
REPRESENTATIVE PATRICK LEAHY (D-VT)
RENO, NEVADA, MAYOR JEFF GRIFFIN
MARYLAND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND
WHITE HOUSE ROOSEVELT ROOM
WASHINGTON, DC
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GEN. MCCAFFREY: Let me, if I may, begin by thanking all of you for joining us to what will be, I
think, a very important series of announcements that try and draw the link between drugs, crime and
prisons. And for this group, I don't need to articulate the numbers that are involved, the 1.8 million
behind bars, the arguments that as many as 83 percent have a history of drug abuse -- you can
argue those percentages, from 50 to 80 percent and the enormous cost of some $36 billion that
goes into this national system. And what the attorney general and Mayor Griffin and Representative
Rangel and Senator Leahy and my partner, Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend,
and then the president, will talk about is what are we going to do about it.
And I would first of all argue that this is not a one-day event. We have been working on this issue for
several years now. We have increased the dollars we have invested in our strategy substantially over
the past few years. We're talking about a 40 percent increase in prevention-related funding in three
years and a massive increase of some 38 percent in drug treatment dollars in the past five years.
Now, the president will talk about the FY '99, FY 2000 numbers, but I would just argue, for the first
time in our history, when Secretary Shalala announced the '99 budget we went over $3 billion for
drug-related treatment. A lot of the heroes are here in this room today, besides the ones I
mentioned: Dr. Linda Wolfe (sp) Jones, president of Therapeutic Communities of America; Dr. Alan
Leshner, Dr. Nelba Chavez, who are the team that work with Donna Shalala; Laurie Robinson, who
has been probably the driving force, along with Jeremy Travis, in a lot of what we do; and my own
deputy, Dr. Don Vereen, who has been instrumental in helping us think through the problem.
Let me just say straight out that the numbers we're concerned about is an untreated addict costs you
and I $43,000 a year, by sort of modest calculations. If we lock that addict up, it's just under
$40,000 a year to keep him incarcerated. And the average compulsive drug user is behind bars for
probably some 36 to 48 months.
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If I had to pick one guy in the United States Senate, and I say this notwithstanding the fact that
Chuck Schumer has not been sworn in yet (laughter) -- and Senator Moynihan for all practical
purposes is leaving (laughter) -- that I can talk with about any problem, that I have gone to his
office and he has done what senators don't do; he has come over to the House side to talk with me
in my office. And he talks about this as though it was his district and his state that was really at risk
because he knows that whether it is his state or my community, it's our country; my buddy Senator
Leahy. (Applause.)
SEN. LEAHY: Charlie, thank you very much.
When I first came to the Senate at the age of 34, having left eight years as a prosecutor, one of the
first people I went to see was Congressman Rangel. And I have enjoyed working with him throughout
these years on so many of these issues, especially on the issues of drugs.
And, Mr. President, that's why I am proud to be here with you today, as you make this
announcement. It's extremely important that you are talking about to help current inmates and
parolees end their drug addictions.
Any one of us who has been in law enforcement, or those of us who are now in law enforcement,
know that when you have over 70 percent of all inmates reporting past drug use, when 60 percent of
our nation's repeat offenders report record drug use, then we have to do everything possible to get
them to kick the habit. It's not enough to just simply lock people up, but make them stop having the
problems that get them there in the first place.
That's why I introduced the legislation last year, the Combatting Drugs in Prison Act, to allow states
to use their federal prison funds to provide appropriate drug testing and treatment for their inmates.
We have to show that this can work.
And I was pleased, Mr. President, when a similar provision was enacted in the fiscal year 1999
appropriations bill.
Only the former Soviet Union has more people in their jails and prisons than we do. If we can help
these inmates get off and stay off drugs, we can see a significant reduction in these numbers in the
coming years. We know that residential drug treatment programs work. We've found that federal
inmates who have completed such a program, I believe the numbers were, Madame Attorney
General, 73 percent less likely to be rearrested in the six months after release than those who did
not.
Now in that regard, I want to introduce Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the lieutenant governor
of Maryland. She has become a leader, not only in Maryland but throughout the nation, in
developing innovative approaches to reducing crime, including the use of regular drug testing in
parolees and probationers in Maryland. I've known her for many years. I have to hope that part of
her reason for being so good is she spent some time in school in Vermont. (Laughter.) I believe the
citizens of Maryland are lucky to have somebody who takes such a balanced approach. And I think
because of Governor Townsend, this money in Maryland is going to be well spent.
LT. GOV. TOWNSEND: Thank you. I shouldn't say this, but nonetheless, when I went to school in
Vermont, I went to a school called Putney, and my father called it "Potney." (Laughter.) He didn't
know what he was talking about. (Laughter.) It was many years ago. But thank you, Senator Leahy.
And Mr. President, it's great to be with you, and Mr. Mayor, Congressman, Gen. McCaffrey.
When we talk about the revolving door of criminal justice, it is clearly drug-addicted offenders who
are turning the wheels. Addicts under the supervision of the criminal justice system use about half of
all the cocaine and heroin used in the United States. That is, 50 percent of all of our drugs are used
by people already in the criminal justice system. It's a staggering statistic which demonstrates that
we will make a huge dent in the crime problem when we break the cycle and get the addicts off of
drugs.
By combining treatment and punishment, the president's initiatives will do that, and they will do it
more quickly and more effectively than anything else that we can do.
These initiatives help us move beyond the paralyzing debate of more treatment or more punishment.
People are sick and tired of drug- related crime. They want results, and this will get results. The
evidence is clear; the longer that people stay in treatment, the better the outcome, regardless of
whether they choose treatment on their own or whether they're sent there by their wife, their boss,
or even the judge.
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The president's initiatives capitalize on this by using the leverage of the criminal justice system to
keep offenders in treatment and hold them accountable for staying clean. This way they can stop
committing crimes to support their habits, avoid the risk of AIDS, stay off drugs for good and,
therefore, they can get the jobs and resume the productive, fulfilling lives they should.
Attorney General Reno pioneered this combined approach of testing, sanctions and treatment with
the Miami Drug Court, and we've seen proof that it works in hundreds of individual drug courts
across the country where repeat offenses are being cut by anywhere from 50 to 75 percent.
In Maryland we have institutionalized this model throughout our entire criminal justice system. Under
our "Break the Cycle" initiative, every single one of our 25,000 drug-addicted offenders on parole and
probation will face drug testing twice a week, with immediate and escalating penalties with each
failed test, to motivate them to stay in treatment, off of drugs and away from crime. We'll begin to
apply this same regiment to juvenile offenders later this year.
The new grant that we received today will help us to extend the same system behind the walls of our
prisons and help keep drugs out of those facilities so treatment can occur in a drug-free
environment. Our "Break the Cycle" initiative is the largest effort of this kind anywhere in the
country, and I am very grateful for the support that I have received from Attorney General Reno and
from General McCaffrey, who in fact came to Maryland a year ago when we kicked that off.
But obviously, for any of this to work it takes a lot of cooperation from many branches of government
and from every level, and I would like to thank a few of the Marylanders who are with us today:
Corrections Secretary Stu Sims (sp); Delegate Peter Francho (sp) of the Appropriations Committee;
Ricky Specter (sp) of the Baltimore City Council; Judges Kaplan (sp), Mizner (ph), and Weitzman
(sp), and Judge McCallif (sp) who heads our Sentencing Council. Also Faye Taxmond (ph), the
University of Maryland, who, I have to tell you, has devoted countless hours to making this work.
I also clearly want to applaud you, Mr. President, for your leadership, and urge the Congress to
approve these new initiatives in the budget so that other states can start similar reform. Thank you,
Mr. President. In so many ways you are making this a stronger nation.
Your leadership on issues of crime and drugs is a vital part of that.
When you took office six years ago, most people had abandoned the hope that we could do anything;
that it wouldn't matter if we added more police or built more prisons or tried new prevention. But
your tireless and confident leadership proved that wrong. It didn't end with the Crime Bill; it's been a
steady and consistent fight on all fronts, and we're seeing the results now of the Clinton-Gore
administration's hard work in our communities. Crimes rates have dropped to levels that we haven't
seen in 30 years.
You have led this way to historic reductions in crime and today's initiatives will help to accelerate
that progress. To break the cycle of crime and addiction is to make a community safe. The American
people are thankful and we are grateful that you have taken up the cause of rebuilding our cities and
taking our streets back from the thugs and the pushers. You're making it possible that more of us
can live in neighborhoods in which we trust our neighbors and look forward to a future of hope.
It is a real honor and a privilege to introduce the president of the United States, William Jefferson
Clinton. (Applause.)
PRESIDENT CLINTON: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let me begin by just
expressing my appreciation to all who have spoken and to all who are here for the years and years
and years of commitment you have manifested in this endeavor. I thank my good friend, Senator
Leahy and Congressman Rangel. I thank General Reno and General McCaffrey for making it possible
for us to continue to emphasize these things and to actually make progress; for being both practical
and idealistic. Thank you, Mayor Griffin for what you said and for what you're doing and for bringing
your police chief, Chief Hoover (sp), here with you.
I want to say, obviously, a special word of appreciation to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who has
literally redefined what it means to be a lieutenant governor -- (laughter) I would hate to succeed
her as lieutenant governor of Maryland for her indefatigable energy. I thank the others here
from Maryland who are involved in her endeavor.
I would also like to say a special word of welcome to Judge (Joel ?) Talber (sp) and all the others
who are here from the drug courts throughout America. I'll have more to say about them in a
moment. But I am especially grateful for their endeavors.
Six years ago, as has already been said, our country was at peace but too many of our communities
were at war. Illegal drugs were ravaging cities on both coasts and the American heartland in
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between. Crack and methamphetamine use were at near record levels. Drug dealers controlled whole
neighborhoods and thought nothing of opening fire on passing police cars. Many communities lived in
terror. Many children feared walking down the street.
I actually met in a school in California -- I'll never forget this with a group of children who were
drilled on how to jump out of their desk and hit the floor if they were subject to drive-by shootings. It
had a searing impact on me. One of the reasons I ran for president was to give those kids their
futures back. And all of you have done a lot to give them their futures back, and I'm very grateful to
you.
In every successive year, I have proposed a larger anti-drug budget. In 1999 we had a 30 percent
increase just between then and 1996, even as we produced the first balanced budget in a generation.
Under General McCaffrey's leadership, we have put these resources to good use: unprecedented new
tools for domestic enforcement, unprecedented new campaigns to convince young people to stay off
drugs I hope you saw one of our ads on the football game last night, if you watched it;
unprecedented new efforts to stem the flow of drugs across our borders; unprecedented new efforts
to stop the revolving door between the prison and the street.
As you've heard from Attorney General Reno and General McCaffrey, the strategy is working. We do
have the lowest crime rate in 25 years. Drug use is falling finally, thank goodness, drug use is
beginning to fall among our young people. But the crime rate is still too high. The streets are still too
violent. There is still too much drug use, especially in our prisons. The mayor of Reno whispered to
me when Kathleen was talking that Mayor Daley told him it was easier to get drugs in the Illinois
penitentiary than it was on the streets of Chicago. I say this not to criticize the Illinois penitentiary.
That's a statement that could be made in more than half the states in this country.
So we still have a lot to do. There is no better way to start than to help our prisoners break clean
from drugs.
Today we release a new study from the Department of Justice that offers more convincing evidence
that drug use stokes all kinds of crime, from property crimes like burglary and auto theft, to violent
crimes like assault and murder. It shows that one in six offenders landed in prison for a crime
committed just to get money for drugs; that nearly a third of prisoners were using drugs at the time
they committed their crimes; that more than 80 percent of prisoners have a history of drug use. And
when you consider that, plus the breathtaking statistic that Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy
Townsend gave us about the volume of heroin and cocaine used by people who are in the criminal
justice system, it is clear to us that if we're going to continue to reduce the rate of crime, we have to
do something to avoid releasing criminals with their dangerous drug habits intact.
As you've heard from previous speakers, we've already done a lot to expand drug testing and
treatment in federal prisons and to encourage states to do the same, but today we want to make a
dramatic leap forward. The balanced budget I will submit to Congress will contain a $215 million
zero-tolerance drug program designed to promote drug supervision, our nation's most
comprehensive effort ever to test and treat not only criminals in prison but also those on probation
and parole. To inmates in every state, we want to send a message: If you stay on drugs, you must
stay behind bars. To probationers and parolees, we want to send a message: If you want to keep
your freedom, you have to keep free of drugs.
Through this initiative, we'll also expand our efforts to help communities build and administer drug
courts. Charlie Rangel mentioned Attorney General Reno's efforts as a young prosecutor. Many years
ago, long before I ever thought I would be standing here as president, because my brother-in-law
was a public defender in the Miami drug court that the attorney general set up, I used to go and visit
it in the '80s. I went three times. One time I stayed for the whole session of court, almost all day.
I have never had a more exhilarating experience in a courtroom in my life, including the sessions of
the United States Supreme Court I have attended, because finally I saw something that I thought
could actually work to change people's lives, to restore people to productive use in society, to reduce
the crime rate, to make people safer, and to stop the policy of warehousing people in ever-increasing
numbers in order to keep our streets safe.
When I took office, there were just a handful of these drug courts in operation, including the one that
the Attorney General launched in Miami. Today there are more than 400. If our budget proposal is
approved by Congress, we can move to have more than 1,000 up and running by the end of next
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year. That is a worthy goal. It will change America for the better. It will give a lot of people their lives
back and make our streets safer.
I'm also proud to say that on top of these proposals, we will free up another $120 million for
drug-free prison initiatives this year -- funds to help states boost testing and treatment, funds to
purge their prisons of drugs with advanced new technologies.
At the end of this century, we've made great progress in our efforts to free our children and our
communities from drugs and crime. As we begin a new century and a new millennium, we have an
enormous opportunity to finish the job, to harness all the resources of the criminal justice system --
our courts; our prosecutors; our prisons; our probation officers; our police -- to break the drug habits
of prisoners and people on parole and probation. We have to break this cycle. We have to give all
these people a chance to be drug-free and to be productive citizens again. It is the only way we can
ever in the end assure our children the future they deserve.
Thank you all for what you do. God bless you. (Applause.)
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The Washington Post, October 08, 1998
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HEADLINE: Glendening Lets Lt. Gov. Lead Charge On Crime; Initiatives Cover Victims, Offenders
BYLINE: Philip P. Pan, Washington Post Staff Writer
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It was the kind of program that Maryland officials were sure Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
would appreciate.
A small group of teenagers at the state's largest juvenile detention facility had been put to work
repairing cars and trucks under the tutelage of mechanics at the State Highway Administration. The
youths would graduate with job skills and an appreciation for the value of work, and some would
even be hired by the state.
But when pleased juvenile justice officials touted the program to Townsend (D) last year, she zeroed
in on one detail: The teenagers were being paid $ 4 an hour -- and that wouldn't do.
Over the strenuous objections of those who ran the program, Townsend required the juveniles --
most of whom were poor and from broken homes -- to use their wages to pay restitution to their
victims, to make child support payments or to make "donations" to the state's victims assistance
fund.
The episode is emblematic of Townsend's attempt to define a centrist, "New Democrat" approach to
crime policy, one that emphasizes victims and communities as well as offenders, punishment as well
as prevention. It also illustrates how thoroughly she has been able to use her position to pursue that
agenda in Maryland.
Lieutenant governors for the most part have been minor figures in modern Maryland history, as
often as not relegated to ceremonial duties by governors with little interest in sharing power. But
breaking with the past, Gov. Parris N. Glendening (D) has granted Townsend remarkable authority
over state policies in an area of intense public concern: crime.
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During the last four years, Townsend has crisscrossed the state announcing one initiative after
another, introducing herself to local officials and citizens, slowly building a record in criminal justice
to complement her more well-known identity as the eldest daughter of Robert F. Kennedy.
She designed the administration's "Hot Spots" program to focus resources on high-crime
neighborhoods. She sent probation agents out of their offices and into communities and schools. She
opened two youth "boot camps" and sought to revamp the juvenile justice system. And she helped
Glendening secure passage of one of the strictest gun-control laws in the nation.
This fall, against the advice of some who fear she is overreaching, Townsend launched her most
ambitious project yet: a system of frequent drug tests and escalating punishments designed to force
25,000 probationers to stay in drug treatment -- and fundamentally change how the justice system
deals with drug offenders.
Her critics say the result has been more flash than substance, arguing that Townsend and
Glendening have only tinkered with the state's criminal justice system and failed to implement the
wholesale reform that is needed. For example, they say the administration has done little to establish
truth-in-sentencing standards by which criminals serve their full sentences or overhaul a
juvenile justice bureaucracy in crisis.
"I think the lieutenant governor's proposals have been well-meaning and well-intentioned, but I think
she's missing the boat," said former U.S. attorney Richard D. Bennett, the Republican candidate for
lieutenant governor. "They've used a band-aid approach to a far more fundamental problem."
But other Republicans give Townsend's approach high marks. "I have to say the programs we're
talking about are not fluff," said Howard County State's Attorney Marna McLendon. "There's an awful
lot of innovation occurring, and I'm thrilled to see it."
For her part, Townsend said the administration has made "great strides" in reforming the juvenile
justice system, all but eliminated parole for criminals serving life sentences and sharply reduced
parole for other violent offenders. In addition, she said, a commission is already studying how to
implement truth-in-sentencing and is expected to issue its recommendations this winter.
She noted that her programs have won praise from a broad spectrum of police officials, prosecutors
and victims' rights and domestic violence activists.
"People in the law enforcement community are not ideological. They want results. They understand
we need a balanced approach to crime," Townsend said recently. "Yes, we need to be tough. Yes, we
need punishment. Yes, we need to make sure vicious criminals are put away. We also need
prevention. We need after-school programs. We need community police and probation officers
We need to be smart about fighting crime, and people understand that."
The initiative that perhaps best illustrates the Glendening-Townsend approach to crime-fighting is
the Hot Spots program, which targets federal and state resources on 36 high-crime neighborhoods
across Maryland, including six in Baltimore and at least one in every county. The program is funded
out of existing resources, including $ 3.5 million in annual state grants that previously had been
distributed in a less coordinated manner.
The theory of Hot Spots is simple: Because researchers have found that 50 percent of crime occurs in
just 3 percent of locations, resources from a variety of agencies not just police should be
focused on those communities.
For example, in Mount Rainier, one of four Prince George's County communities targeted as hot
spots, state probation agents have been assigned to work with police officers to make sure offenders
are complying with the terms of their release. State grants are funding an after-school and
mentoring program at a local community center. And town officials are working to improve lighting in
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certain areas and pressuring landlords to improve their property and seek more stable tenants.
"Any time you drop resources into an area like this, it's going to make a difference. The community is
more involved and the perception of crime is down," said John Thompson, Mount Rainier's police
chief. "I spoke to one lady the other day, and she told me that for the first time at the end of the
summer, she felt she could sit on her front porch."
At each hot spot, probation agents and police officers work in teams to keep tabs on parolees, often
with surprise home visits. The state also has provided grants for "community mobilization" programs
such as citizen patrols, neighborhood cleanups and even block parties.
But local officials in hot spots have designed different strategies for their neighborhoods. In
Baltimore, for example, state money has been used to hire prosecutors who focus on enforcing codes
and shutting down crack houses. In Oxon Hill and elsewhere, juvenile probation agents have been
assigned to work in schools. In Waldorf's Smallwood Village neighborhood, police officers have
worked with residents to clean up and patrol bicycle paths.
Some Republicans dismiss the Hot Spots program as a political gimmick designed to win votes. "I
think she has tried to identify herself in that area, but I don't think people see it as sincere," said
Del. Phillip D. Bissett (Anne Arundel), the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.
"She's been handed the football, but she doesn't know exactly which way to run."
But the program has won over many skeptics, including Republicans and community leaders long
accustomed to neglect. The Maryland State Teachers Association, which initially resisted a plan to
put probation agents in schools, now embraces it. Probation agents who were frustrated by immense
caseloads now say they feel they've embarked on a second career.
"I can honestly say that before now, I've never seen so many resources coming into the community
to help us combat drugs and crime and all the illegal activities," said Jean Yahudah, a community
organizer in a southwest Baltimore hot spot. "When I talk to residents, they realize this is the first
opportunity they've had in years to make a difference."
Crime in Maryland edged up during Glendening's first year in office, but it began falling after that and
dropped faster than the national average last year. Researchers say it's too soon to link any of
Townsend's programs to the decline, but Glendening is already counting on those policies to blunt
Republican candidate Ellen R. Sauerbrey's claim that he has been soft on crime.
Indeed, Townsend is featured prominently in his campaign ads, and it is a sign of both her popularity
and Glendening's confidence in her that the campaign has aggressively sought to present them as a
team. But if Townsend and her centrist crime policies are now considered political assets, that has
not always been the case.
When Glendening tapped Townsend to be his running mate four years ago, she was a low-level
bureaucrat in the U.S. Justice Department and a minor figure in state politics at best. She had run
for office only once, an attempt in 1986 to unseat Republican Helen Delich Bentley from her
suburban Baltimore congressional seat. As the first Kennedy woman to seek elected office, she
received national attention but lost badly.
Eight years later, when she was sworn in as lieutenant governor, the state's political establishment
continued to regard her as an inexperienced outsider and a weak public speaker, someone who was
in office strictly because of the Kennedy name and its fund-raising draw. Few expected her to do
much with a job that one pol described as "a good place to go to retire from politics."
"I didn't know Kathleen, and I just sort of figured she would be the same as all the rest. I didn't have
much faith that we would get anywhere on crime," said state Sen. Walter M. Baker (D-Cecil),
chairman of the Judicial Proceedings Committee. "But no, she's been very active.
I have to say
I've been converted."
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With Townsend's prodding, Glendening has pursued some policies typically associated with more
conservative politicians: He all but eliminated parole for criminals serving life sentences, built or
started work on 4,441 prison and jail spaces, supported the death penalty and used it once, and
brought the state police force to a strength of 1,615 by hiring 252 new troopers.
At the same time, Glendening appealed to liberals by expanding the use of alternatives to prison
such as day reporting and home detention, quadrupling spending on after-school programs and
boosting funding for other social programs.
But the heart of the administration's anti-crime strategy lies in programs, like Hot Spots, that don't
fit neatly into left-right categories -- programs that most bear Townsend's influence: a crackdown on
gun trafficking; frequent drug testing for drug offenders; victim sensitivity classes for juveniles; the
nation's first 311 nonemergency police line in Baltimore; a Police Corps program that trains college
students to work as police officers in exchange for loan relief; and expanded use of probation agents
who make home visits or are stationed in schools.
"The old left was always worried about protecting the rights of perpetrators, and the right only cared
about severe punishment," said Al From, director of the Democratic Leadership Council, the centrist
party think tank. "So for years, we were clobbered on that issue. What the New Democrats did was
modernize the approach, and Kathleen has really been a leader on that."
Criminologists credit Townsend for avoiding the traditional answers to crime in favor of a
problem-solving, research-based approach to the issue. "She has basically sought to put in practice
all the things we've been talking about for years but that politicians seldom have taken the political
risk to put in place," said Faye Taxman, a criminologist at the University of Maryland.
But by avoiding the traditional answers, Townsend also has drawn criticism from both the left and
the right, particularly for her record in reforming the state's juvenile justice system.
Republicans say Townsend has not done enough to make the system punish juvenile offenders and is
letting youths get away with crimes several times before they are ever sanctioned. At the same time,
children's advocates say the system is already too harsh, and they criticize Townsend for making it
easier to prosecute juveniles as adults and for opening up juvenile court proceedings to the public.
Both sides agree that the system is overwhelmed and that juveniles are waiting too long to be
prosecuted or placed in programs.
If anything, Townsend tends to side with the Republicans in this debate. She does not apologize for
opening the courts to public scrutiny or for the increase in juveniles charged as adults. Instead, she
worries whether they are being treated severely enough in the adult system and acknowledges that
the state needs to do more to improve the juvenile system.
At the same time, she insists the administration has already given the system a new emphasis on
public safety and accountability. Juveniles are 60 percent more likely than they were four years ago
to receive some type of punishment, she said, and the state has dramatically increased electronic
detention and probation for offenders.
"The system has operated under a philosophy of treating kids for almost a hundred years. We're
changing that, and that's not going to happen overnight," she said. "But this is not a social service
agency anymore."
ABOUT THE SERIES
This is the last of four articles examining the record of the administration of Gov. Parris N.
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Glendening (D), who is seeking reelection.
Monday: Initiatives to boost spending on education.
Tuesday: A new approach to containing suburban sprawl.
Yesterday: Trying to make Maryland more economically competitive.
Today: Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and her anti-crime measures.
Maryland Crime (This graphic was not available) KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND At a White
House ceremony for a crime initiative, Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, right, joins Attorney
General Janet Reno and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) in supporting Suzann Wilson, whose
daughter died in Arkansas school shooting.
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The Seattle Times, September 21, 1997
Copyright 1997 The Seattle Times Company
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September 21, 1997, Sunday Weekend Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A10
LENGTH: 1062 words
HEADLINE: KATHLEEN KENNEDY BRANCHES OFF THE FAMILY TREE POLITICS IS IN HER
BLOODLINE, BUT SHE KEEPS A LOWER PROFILE
BYLINE: THOMAS W. WALDRON; BALTIMORE SUN
DATELINE: ANNAPOLIS, MD.
BODY:
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Kathleen Kennedy was 12 when her uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was
killed in Dallas.
Two days after the slaying, her father, Robert F. Kennedy, wrote Kathleen a note urging her to help
care for her younger brother Joe and the president's young son, John.
"As the oldest of the Kennedy grandchildren, you have a particular responsibility now - a special
responsibility to John and Joe," Bobby Kennedy wrote. "Be kind to others and work for your country.
Love, Daddy."
Thirty-four years later, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Maryland's lieutenant governor, has
learned that it is a lot easier to serve her country than to take responsibility for the members of her
famous family.
Once called "the nun" by her younger siblings, Townsend, 46, has had to watch Joe and another
brother, Michael, suffer through public criticism of their morality and judgment in recent months.
For a woman who has championed mandatory community service for high-school students, "coerced
abstinence" for drug abusers and character education for youngsters, it has been painful.
"Obviously, it's been a tough time for my family. It's been a trying time for the people it's affected,"
Townsend said.
Michael, 39, is alleged to have had sex with his children's baby-sitter beginning when she was 14. He
has admitted only "serious mistakes" in the matter.
Meanwhile, brother Joe, 44, who is U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy II of Massachusetts, was ridiculed after
his ex-wife published a book decrying the Catholic annulment he received of their 12-year marriage.
He announced he is dropping his bid for governor of Massachusetts, saying he concluded the
campaign would focus on family problems.
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The brothers' troubles had prompted a flurry of national publications to re-examine the new
generation of Kennedys. Newsweek labeled them "A Dynasty in Decline."
Townsend holds a special place among them. Not only the oldest, she is the only female Kennedy to
hold elective office.
Joe, she says, has been treated unfairly. After all, it was his wife, Sheila, who wanted the divorce.
And he shouldn't be blamed for seeking an annulment to remain in good standing within the Catholic
Church. After all, she says, 50,000 Americans a year receive annulments.
As for Michael and the baby-sitter, she has little to say publicly.
Learning at a young age
Kids need values instilled at school, to reinforce what they may or may not be getting at home, she
says. High-school students must be required to do community service to teach them the value of
public involvement. Juvenile justice, she says, should be handed out in open court to cast public
"shame" on children who break the law.
Townsend's earliest memories revolve around politics and government. As a young girl, she went
with her mother to the U.S. Capitol to watch her father take part in congressional hearings on union
corruption. Around the dinner table, the children were quizzed on current events.
They were reminded of the privilege and special place they enjoyed in the world. Her father,
returning from a trip to explore Mississippi poverty, told his children of the extreme conditions he
had seen.
"Do you realize how lucky you are?" Bobby Kennedy asked them.
Townsend nominally oversees public safety for Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening. While she helps
formulate overall policy, day-to-day control of prison and police issues remains in the hands of
Cabinet secretaries. Townsend instead serves as more of a facilitator - oiling the gears of government
to make relatively modest new programs work.
"What I like to do is make sure that government works, making sure we're effective," she says. "That
often means stopping the bureaucratic turf battles."
Among her successes, she was instrumental in creating a Baltimore "police corps" to attract better
educated officers to the force.
She is heading a task force involved in a long-range project to rework the way the state and local
governments deliver social services.
And she has championed "character education," a program that uses state and federal funds to train
teachers to instill values.
It is, some critics say, the quintessential Kennedy program: using government to perfect the
character of the masses.
For Townsend, the program represents a needed effort by government to teach honesty and virtue.
Her speeches, laced with quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Aeschylus and Socrates, can be
unpredictable affairs.
While she has cobbled together a solid list of achievements in office, Townsend has struggled to win
respect among the state's political establishment. Critics dismiss her as "lightweight."
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Many observers regard her as a minor political player, and few say they can visualize a Maryland
political future for her after she leaves the lieutenant governor's office.
Townsend declines to discuss any future plans, but says, "I love politics."
Family life
For now, she has enough to handle - serving as lieutenant governor and running for re-election next
year.
And Townsend, her staff likes to point out, is the first statewide elected official in Maryland who is a
mother. She and her husband, a professor at St. John's College in Annapolis, have four daughters.
David Townsend handles most of the household chores. But it was Kathleen who spent a day in
Boston last week packing and moving her oldest child's belongings in preparation for her junior year
at Harvard, Kathleen's alma mater.
When Bill Clinton won the White House in 1992, he tapped Townsend to be a deputy assistant
attorney general, a mid-level policy position from which she supervised grant awards.
Two years later, in 1994, Glendening surprised the Maryland political world when he asked
Townsend, whom he barely knew, to be his running mate.
Now the political futures of the professorial governor and the enthusiastic Kennedy are tethered
together as they battle low poll numbers and discontent within their own Democratic Party.
Townsend speaks cautiously about their ability to sell voters on the team's accomplishments - among
them gun control, a major tax cut and significant environmental legislation.
"We clearly have to work to get our message out," Townsend says. "The terrific thing is it's a very
strong message."
Distributed by the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service
GRAPHIC: PHOTO; NANINE HARTZENBERGER / BALT. SUN: KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND,
MARYLAND'S LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, IN HER ANNAPOLIS, MD., OFFICE.
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The Boston Globe, August 10, 1997
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HEADLINE: A dynasty's daughter;
Ignored in most stories about her generation of Kennedys, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend,
lieutenant governor of Maryland, is making her own mark.
BYLINE: By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff
BODY:
The morning sun beats down on a sprawling set of buildings as Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
walks by brightly colored signs marked with arrows and labeled "Alliance Against Abuse." The
Democratic lieutenant governor of Maryland, trim, coiffed, and dressed in a two-piece business
suit, arrives promptly at 8 o'clock with one aide and no local reporters.
Within minutes, before coffee has been poured or a Danish unwrapped, the eldest daughter of Robert
F. Kennedy is listening intently to terrifying tales of rape, incest, and other sex crimes. As tears roll
down the face of a woman who tells her tale of incest, and as other women weep in shared anguish,
Townsend nods her head firmly, then reaches out to comfort members of the group. She orders her
aide to take down names to help the victims and promptly promises to make Maryland's justice
system more responsive to them.
The timing of the visit has more than a few potentially awkward ingredients. It occurs as Townsend's
younger brother Michael Kennedy is facing allegations that he had sex with a baby sitter before she
turned 16 and as another brother, Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II, faces questions about the
annulment of his first marriage as he prepares to run for governor of Massachusetts. The visit,
moreover, comes during a week in which the Kennedy grandchildren have faced a withering
examination in the media, including a Newsweek cover story headlined "The Young Kennedys: A
Dynasty in Decline."
Townsend, 46, who has played a little-publicized role as the family's trouble-shooter during her
brothers' recent problems, is surprised that she has been little more than a footnote to most stories
about her generation of Kennedys. She notes that the Newsweek cover, for example, featured six
Kennedy males, including her younger brother Max, who has never run for office. But it excluded her,
the only Kennedy woman elected to public office.
Despite her position as her state's second-ranking official and her success in making Maryland the
only state to make community service a requisite for high school graduation, she does not get the
same kind of notice as her more famous siblings and cousins. She is repeatedly referred to as the
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un-Kennedy, the quiet Kennedy, Clean Kathleen. When it comes to media attention, she cannot
compete with her gregarious brother Joseph, her boisterous uncle Senator Edward M. Kennedy, or
her cousin Representative Patrick Kennedy, and certainly not with the glamorous John F. Kennedy Jr.
Even some siblings call her "the nun," a reference to her countenance and, in fact, a onetime career
goal.
As a longtime friend, White House special counsel Lanny Davis, puts it: "It is not that she is
colorless. But she is not colorful. She is normal."
Yet Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is in many ways the most Kennedy of them all, with more
significant accomplishments compiled against tougher odds. Nearly every friend interviewed for this
article gave some variation of the following: For all their foibles, it is far easier to be a male Kennedy
running for office in Massachusetts (or Rhode Island) than it has been to be a female Kennedy
running in Maryland. Yet what is most compelling about Townsend's story is that she - perhaps more
than any other member of her generation in the family - has gone to such extraordinary lengths to
emulate her father.
"She is most consistent with the best traditions of Bobby and Jack Kennedy," says Charles Peters, the
editor of The Washington Monthly, which for more than a decade has published Townsend's essays
on virtue, morality, and volunteerism. "She has been willing to say that religion and morality play an
important part in our lives, which a lot of liberals have not, and she has not betrayed her beliefs."
Indeed, Townsend is a mirror of her father in many ways. Many of her top concerns are culled from
his career as a crime-fighting moralist who battled for the underclass and preached the value of
citizen service. In a deal arranged by Townsend, the heads of Maryland's prison system and state
police department report to her. She created the nation's first state office of "character education,"
designed to teach values and morality to children. She worked for a decade to require high school
students to perform community service in order to graduate, a program that went into full effect this
year after teachers' unions dropped their opposition. And as a disciple of her father's distaste for
certain welfare initiatives, Townsend has tried to buck the family image of a liberal rubber stamp for
such programs.
Nonetheless, Townsend still faces a cascade of questions about whether she can win reelection next
year and then run for governor, as aides expect. Her running mate, Governor Parris Glendening, last
year was ranked as the nation's least popular governor, leading to speculation that the
Glendening/Townsend team may face tough Democratic opposition in the primary campaign next
year. Townsend, perceived by some as invisible in the first campaign, is now being given a larger
role and is considered crucial to the team's success.
As a result, the most recent round of stories about Townsend's brothers has not come at the best
time. But for Townsend, dealing with her family's troubles while running her own life has been a
regular balancing act for as long as she can remember. Two days after President John F. Kennedy
was assassinated, Robert Kennedy composed a handwritten letter on White House stationery to his
12-year-old daughter, urging her to look out for the president's son, John F. Kennedy Jr., and her
younger brother Joseph II.
"Dear Kathleen," Robert Kennedy wrote. "You seem to understand that Jack died and was buried
today. As the oldest of the Kennedy grandchildren, you have a particular responsibility now - a
special responsibility to John and Joe. Be kind to others and work for your country. Love, Daddy."
The letter, which is framed and hangs prominently in Townsend's home in the Baltimore suburb of
Towson, is a signpost in the life of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. From the moment of her uncle's
death, and especially since her father's assassination, when she was 16, she has tried to live up to
her father's request that she take care of her siblings, especially her younger brothers.
"Right after my father died, I was the oldest and most mature," Townsend says. "There were clearly
a lot of challenges. It was a very tough period of time with three teenage boys," Townsend says,
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referring to the three oldest: Joseph, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and David A. Kennedy.
That challenge was never greater than in 1979, when Townsend took a dramatic step that has
received practically no notice. She tried to save her brother David, who was suffering from a drug
and alcohol problem, by filing court papers to become his legal guardian. It was a step she could
take only by swearing that he was "not competent," according to a family associate.
"Kathleen tried to save his life by becoming his guardian against his will and forcing him to get
treatment," the Kennedy associate says. "It was one of the most difficult things she ever did. But he
challenged her in court, and a year later he removed her as legal guardian."
David Kennedy, who once said that "America needs a rest from the Kennedys," died of a drug
overdose in a Florida hotel room in 1984. Townsend was devastated by his death, the family
associate says. But unlike many family members - some of whom have had their own drug problems
- Townsend has frequently mentioned her brother's death to underscore her concern about illegal
drug use. Today, officials of the Maryland agency that deals with drug prevention report to her.
After David's tragedy, Townsend has been quick to come to the aid of her brothers Joseph and
Michael. Earlier this year, for example, she led the public defense of Joseph by noting that it was not
he, but his wife, who had sought a divorce.
Townsend also says she held a series of private conversations to help her family deal with the
allegations that Michael Kennedy had sex with a baby sitter before she turned 16 years old. Asked
about the conversations, she responds only by saying the matter has been "very sad" and "very
hard," adding: "In my family, the oldest child has a special responsibility and duty to be a good sister
and to help out my mother and brothers when help is needed."
"She plays an enormous leadership role in the family," says Townsend's husband, David. "When
something happens, like with one of her brothers, she is called immediately; she is the one who
makes the decision to try to unravel things. Obviously, it hasn't been as hard for us as it has been for
some of our relatives." From the very start, Townsend has been associated with the family's tragic
history. Born in 1951, she was named after Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, the sister of Robert Kennedy
who died in a 1948 airplane crash. It is said that Robert Kennedy chose the name in memory of his
sister but with the condition that his daughter never be referred to by the same nickname, because
the affectionate appellation felt too painful.
Perhaps more than any other of the 11 children of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, Townsend strives to be
the embodiment of her father's philosophy and speaking style, right down to the way she quotes
Greek and talks endlessly about public service. In a telling essay she wrote recently for The
Washington Monthly, she says the Greek root of the word "idiot" is idios, meaning a private person
who does not engage in public life. When she summarizes this for voters, she tells them, "Don't be
idiots!"
All of this, Townsend says, she derives from her father. She revels in describing Robert Kennedy,
remembering how she accompanied him to racketeering hearings in Congress, hiked with him in the
Oregon wilderness, and joined him in conversations with world leaders at the dinner table.
"My dad had a very special place in his heart for Kathleen," says Joseph Kennedy. "He had a very
strong intellectual side of his personality and a moral side
and he and Kathleen hooked up in a
way that was really quite wonderful between a father and his oldest daughter."
The bond between father and daughter was underscored in the most dramatic fashion one summer
day in 1965, when Kathleen Kennedy very nearly became a Kennedy tragedy. Competing in the
Barnstable Horse Show, she was thrown from her horse, Attorney General, who landed on top of her
with such force that she immediately lost consciousness. Her family feared she was near death.
Robert Kennedy learned of the accident as he was sailing in rough seas on a 70-foot yacht, Neris, off
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the coast of Cape Cod. Kennedy arranged for a Coast Guard cutter to pick him up. But 20-foot swells
and 40-mile-per-hour winds prevented the cutter from tying up to Kennedy's boat. Afraid he would
never see his daughter alive again, Kennedy dived into the roiling waters, horrifying his shipmates,
who feared a tragedy would be doubled. For terrifying minutes, Kennedy bobbed in the sea before he
finally reached the cutter. Three days later, when Kathleen regained consciousness, the first person
she saw was her father.
"Love, devotion, courage - these are clearly what I think of when I think about my father," Townsend
says.
A few years later, Townsend took the significant step of leaving Catholic school to enroll in Vermont's
Putney School, where she experienced a very different world. On Putney's diversed dealt with
President Kennedy's death, and with the aplomb that her father had shown when he dived into the
sea on the day she nearly died herself. She decided she would be stoic and show the leadership that
her father had instilled in her. This time, in an echo of her horse-riding accident, she was the one
who hurried to her father's side. She arrived in the hospital room where he lay, unconscious, just
before his death.
"I remember her just before the funeral," says a family friend, Adam Walinsky. Though "you certainly
knew this was not a happy time," he says, "I remember her being really composed and in control."
Her anger remains just beneath the surface. During an interview, she is asked about her support for
the death penalty. She responds with a perfectly prepared answer about sending a message to
potential criminals.
But then she is asked whether she has come to this view because her father's assassin, Sirhan
Sirhan, remains in jail to this day, his life spared. As it happens, the question is posed on a day when
Sirhan has gone before a parole board and asked - unsuccessfully - to be released from prison.
It is as if the question has triggered a switch inside Townsend. Her face whitens, and she appears
near tears. "It's horrible, keeping him alive all these years," she says softly, angrily, as she turns her
face aside. After her father's death, Townsend decided that she wanted to devote herself to his
ideals, but she had no idea how she might do that. It was 1968, when relatively few women had
been elected to federal office.
In 1973, she married David Townsend, who had been a teaching assistant in a history class she took
at Harvard. "I thought she might become a potter," her husband says, recalling that she had
apprenticed with an Italian pottery artist. Indeed, the bridesmaids' gift was a potting wheel. "As in a
lot of families at that time, women were trained to marry professionals rather than be professionals,"
David Townsend says. "That was certainly true in her family as well."
But Kathleen Townsend, who had earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and later
received a law degree from the University of New Mexico, began to think about her own career. "It
has been a slow process of growth," says David Townsend, who teaches Greek and philosophy at a
Maryland college.
After successfully managing Senator Edward Kennedy's 1982 reelection campaign, Townsend served
as a policy analyst in the administration of Governor Michael Dukakis. If not for a few twists of fate,
Townsend might well have sought to go to Congress from Massachusetts.
"She could have gotten something, but Joe got the family franchise," Walinsky says, noting that
Joseph Kennedy was the eldest male. "She moved to Maryland, although it is a lot easier for a
Kennedy to get elected in Massachusetts than in Maryland."
Townsend stresses that she moved to Maryland because her husband's family lived there and her
own mother, Ethel, lives in nearby Virginia. In any case, in 1986, the same year her brother Joe was
elected to the House from a Cambridge district, Townsend ran for a US House seat in a Baltimore
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County district. The woman who had once thought of being a nun or a potter had changed
dramatically. "The women's movement made an enormous difference in my life," says Townsend,
who surprised some observers by supporting abortion rights. "It opened up strengths in me I didn't
realize I had.
I felt I could be a leader in a way I didn't feel nearly as strongly before."
If Townsend's campaign had been waged in New England, she likely would have won. But in
Maryland, despite much-publicized rallies featuring the "Kennedy cousins for Kathleen," the Kennedy
name was not enough. She lost to the incumbent, Republican Representative Helen Delich Bentley.
"In Massachusetts, being a Kennedy means nearly everyone knew your grandfather, grandmother,
father, mother, or uncle," Townsend says. "In Maryland, it depends on my accomplishments. I have a
separate identity." After her defeat, Townsend continued to focus on her family as she plotted her
next move. She and her husband have four children: Meaghan, 19, who will be a junior at Harvard in
the fall; Maeve, 17, who will be a freshman at Boston College; Rose Katherine, 13; and Kerry, 5.
Townsend, a firm believer in natural childbirth, delivered her first three children at home and the
fourth at the home of a midwife. When she went into labor with Maeve before a midwife could arrive,
her husband delivered the child, biting open the amniotic sac with his teeth, a procedure he had
learned from a police emergency manual.
Townsend's political comeback centered on an effort to fulfill her father's belief in citizen service.
Beginning in 1987, she worked on a state plan that eventually would require every high school
graduate in Maryland to perform 75 hours of community service. For several years, she worked in
relative anonymity in a cramped Baltimore office. In 1993, she was appointed deputy assistant
attorney general, overseeing a program that provided money to local law enforcement agencies.
Townsend might have faded into political history if it were not for a surprise decision by a Democratic
politician named Parris Glendening, the county executive of Prince George's County, a Washington
suburb. Glendening told his campaign staff that he wanted to pick a woman from the Baltimore area
as his lieutenant governor in the 1994 race. Glendening, who cites Robert Kennedy as one of his
childhood heroes, says his staff listed the pluses and minuses of several potential candidates,
including Townsend.
"They put a plus - she was a Kennedy," Glendening says, noting such things as Townsend's visibility
and fund-raising prowess. "Then they put a negative - she was a Kennedy." The negative, as
Glendening explains it, was that "as we all know, some people just don't like the family."
Although Glendening barely knew her - "I knew of her," he puts it diplomatically - he felt a kinship
with a woman he discerned as a fellow policy wonk. Glendening and Townsend wound up winning by
about 5,000 votes.
The Glendening/Townsend team, however, got off to a rough start. News stories reported that
Glendening and some cronies had received lucrative pensioenefits from Prince George's County, and
Townsend was criticized when she faced a crowd of welfare advocates who were upset with the
Glendening administration's plan to eliminate a $ 35 million program. Glendening also came under
attack for state financing of two stadiums for two professional football teams.
Glendening's approval rating plummeted to less than 30 percent. A survey released late last year
was particularly embarrassing: It showed that Glendening ranked last among the nation's 50
governors in approval ratings. His ratings recently have risen substantially, but there is still talk that
a fellow Democrat might challenge him.
Historically, the lieutenant governor in Maryland has been a powerless and little-noticed figure.
But Glendening went along with Townsend's wishes and gave her the weighty assignment of
overseeing the state's criminal-justice system. In that role, she has pushed through programs on gun
control, community policing, prison policies, and drug abuse prevention.
"She will talk about her father, the violence in our community, and say that unless you have suffered
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such a personal loss you don't understand what gun violence will do," Glendening says. "You can
hear a pin drop when she talks about it. You can close your eyes and almost hear her father; it is
almost chilling." A day on the road with Townsend is a window into her political agenda and personal
style. After meeting with the group of victims of sexual abuse, Townsend exuberantly leads a
two-hour planning session with leaders of various volunteer groups. Then she appears at a campaign
event with the governor, standing in front of a sign that says "Glendening/Townsend" - one notably
lacking the Kennedy name.
Then it is off to the historic State House, in Annapolis. Townsend greets visitors in her ornate office,
which was once occupied by Thomas Jefferson when Annapolis was briefly the nation's capital. The
office has the quality of a sun-drenched salon, filled with family mementos and photographs of
various Kennedys, especially Robert Kennedy, who in one photo looks particularly pensive on an
Oregon beach.
Townsend pumps her staff for information about a report on the number of students who successfully
completed 75 hours of community service in this, the year when the program took full effect. In what
probably is her biggest success, Townsend won over the Maryland State Teachers Association - some
of whose leaders had ridiculed the idea that the daughter of Robert Kennedy would force children
into unpaid servitude - after the program was changed to ensure that students could perform the
service during class time if they desired. So it is not so surprising when Townsend's staff informs her
that 99 percent of those required to perform the service were successful. Considering the years of
opposition to the program, Townsend is overjoyed, and her onetime opponents are satisfied.
The Maryland State Teachers Association president, Karl Pence, who recalls how he supported
Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential campaign and picketed Robert Kennedy, counts himself as
a convert to Kennedy's daughter. "At first, she was less prepared for this level of leadership than you
might expect a Kennedy to be," Pence says. "But she has grown. She has been given difficult tasks
on criminal justice and community service. She has established herself as Lieutenant Governor
Townsend, not just with her Kennedy name."
GRAPHIC: PHOTO, 1. Townsend at a State House press conference to announce a $ 10 million
anticrime initiative for Maryland neighborhoods. Top: The lieutenant governor with her boss,
Parris Glendening. 2. The mayor of Annapolis shields Townsend with an umbrella as she talks with
residents of a crime-plagued apartment complex. Top: Townsend en route by bus to tour a troubled
neighborhood. / PHOTOGRAPHS BY YUNGHI KIM
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Baltimore Business Journal, February 23, 1996
Copyright 1996 UMI Inc.;
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February 23, 1996
SECTION: Vol 13; No 41; pg 20
LENGTH: 1328 words
HEADLINE: A day in the life of: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
BYLINE: Alan Kline
DATELINE: Baltimore; MD; US; South Atlantic
BODY:
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend was not even an hour into her day when she heard the first
question about her famous family.
"When are we going to have a Kennedy woman in the White House?" asked Katarina Ellis, one of four
Goucher College students meeting with Maryland's lieutenant governor this cold February
morning.
"Good question," Townsend responded, saying no more.
"What about in Maryland?" Ellis continued. "When are going to see a woman governor in Maryland?"
Again, no response.
Clearly, if the oldest daughter of late U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy wants to talk about her political
future, it's not going to be over a bran muffin at the Sheraton Baltimore North in Towson. Especially
when she has so many opinions on the subject of this morning's discussion: juvenile justice.
Since faking office as Maryland's first female lieutenant governor last January, the 44-year-old
Townsend has devoted much of her time and energy trying to make good on Gov. Parris N.
Glendening's campaign promise to create safer communities in Maryland.
On this particular morning, the discussion centers on juvenile justice, a topic she's been especially
interested in since her days with the U.S. Justice Department.
Addressing everything from gun violence to recidivism rates to character education in the public
schools, the one-time attorney challenges the Goucher students to take more initiative in curtailing
juvenile crime.
"If we're going to deal with problems of crime, we've got to get people involved," she says. "The
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police can't do it all themselves."
Townsend arrives at the Sheraton in an unmarked state vehicle at 8:30, dressed in a blue skirt and
matching blazer,
The five-minute commute from her Towson home allows Townsend -- who could just as easily have a
morning meeting in Annapolis or Montgomery County -- to spend some extra time this day with her
husband, David, an instructor at St. John's College in Annapolis, and their three daughters.
Another daughter, Meaghan, is a freshman at Townsend's alma mater, Harvard University.
The session at the Sheraton wraps up around 9:45, but not before Townsend hands out business
cards and takes the students' addresses.
(Two days later, Katarina Ellis received a packet of information from the lieutenant governor's office
outlining the various programs available for people wishing to get more involved in the state's
crime-fighting efforts).
Next stop: Northwood Elementary School in Baltimore City.
Principal Lucy Miller greets Townsend at the entrance.
Some legislator-critics say the position of lieutenant governor is largely ceremonial and should be
abolished; the holder of the position, who runs on a ticket with the governor, doesn't really do
anything, detractors charge. But it is the second-highest public office in the state.
Nonetheless, Miller asks Townsend to sign the visitor's book -- for security reasons.
Townsend begins a tour of he school, dropping in on a third-grade class.
"Good morning, class," she says.
"Good morning Lieutenant Governor Towson," the children say, botching the name slightly.
Followed by her assistant, Marvin Masterson, she moves on to another third-grade class, where the
subject is history.
"Do you ever study the Kennedys?" she asks.
The children look puzzled.
"My mother used to work at the Kennedy-Krieger," says one.
Townsend becomes most animated when she visits a kindergarten class. With a State House
photographer looking on, she leads the class in renditions of "Itsy-bitsy Spider" and "I'm a Little
Teapot."
Later that morning, she asks a group of children what laws they would like to see passed to make
Maryland a better place to live.
"You can't have a child until you get married," says one.
"No guns on the streets," shouts another.
"Close down the gun shops," says a third.
The last comment is a perfect segue for Townsend's stump speech on gun violence -- a speech that
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will be repeated throughout the day and later that night at a gun-control rally in Annapolis.
*
Nearly 700 people died from guns in Maryland last year.
*
Maryland has become the source state for guns in the Mid-Atlantic region.
* To combat gun violence, legislation should be passed limiting handgun sales to one per month.
Later, during the 20-minute drive to downtown Baltimore, Townsend, whose annual salary is $
100,000, talks about the crime-fighting bills the Glendening administration has introduced this
legislative session.
One is the "truth in sentencing" bill she will testify on later that week in the General Assembly. That
bill, she says, would create a criminal justice commission that would recommend ways to keep
violent criminals behind bars without overburdening the state prison system.
At noon, Townsend's car, driven by state trooper Bill Johnson, pulls up at the USF&G Corp. building
downtown, where the lieutenant governor joins First National Bank of Maryland executive Susan
Keating for lunch at the Center Club.
After lunch, she meets briefly with a special education task force in the William Donald Schaefer
Tower before finally making the trip down Interstate 97 to her Annapolis office.
It's impressive. On the wall are photos of Townsend with the likes of Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul
II, Tip O'Neill, her uncle, U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, the Reagans, the Clintons, George Bush and her
mother, Ethel Kennedy.
There's also an enlarged, framed 15-cent postage stamp of her father and an August 1965 get-well
letter from then-President Lyndon B. Johnson.
"We're all so sorry about your accident," begins the letter to Kathleen, who was 14 at the time. "It's
no fun to part company with a horse, especially in mid-air."
For most of the afternoon, Townsend remains in her State House office, talking on the telephone to a
judge about the truth in sentencing bill, discussing a possible economic development summit with
Baltimore County Chamber of Commerce President Linda Cotton, going over staffing and office
matters with Chief of Staff Alan Fleishman and getting ready to testify on two bills later in the week.
Then the fun begins.
Between 5:30 and 7:30, Townsend finds herself a guest of honor at no fewer than five functions.
With no speeches prepared, she runs from building to building addressing groups ranging from the
Maryland women's legislative caucus to public health students from Johns Hopkins University to
members of the Charles County Chamber of Commerce.
Each speech is different, but all end with a plea to attend that night's gun-control rally at 7:30.
She also meets with members of the Prince George's County Democratic Club. Tensions rise slightly
when some Democrats blast the Glendening administration for using taxpayer dollars to build two
football stadiums and criticize the governor's plan to slash funding for prisoners who want to get high
school diplomas.
"In these fiscal times, you have to make some very tough decisions," she says of the cut in funding.
Townsend uses the opportunity to rail against the Republican Congress and takes particular pleasure
pointing out that two anti-Republican books--Hillary Clinton's "It Takes a Village" and AI Franken's
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"Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot" -- are among the nation's bestsellers.
The final appearances of the night are the most festive, however.
At 7:15, Townsend receives a standing ovation from an auditorium full of state employees rallying in
favor of collective bargaining for state workers.
"I sure feel among friends this evening," says Townsend, who supports an administration bill on
collective bargaining. "And I come from a family that does not forget its friends."
The room erupts.
Minutes later, she steps out of the Legislative Services building to address the hundreds of people
who braved the coldest night of the year to show their support for Glendening's gun-control
legislation.
Shortly thereafter, the rally breaks up. After a 12-hour day, Maryland's lieutenant governor can
go home.
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