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CHICAGO -- Mary Goudling of Green Bay looked across the floor of the United Center Monday night, declaring that the assembled Democrats "young, old, the disabled, black, white and brown" were a reflection of the real United States.
Goudling paused for a moment and added -- "women as well."
The 108-member Wisconsin delegation to the Democratic National Convention not only has a similar diversity, it can boast a delegation that can dance the popular Marcarena while still digesting breakfast.
Among them: Mary Cuene of Green Bay, who danced along with the hippest of the delegates at the Monday morning delegation caucus while they awaited the arrival of Vice President Al Gore at their hotel meeting room.
Cuene, a 41-year-old instructor at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, is among approximately 15 teachers in the Wisconsin delegation.
Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, general chairman of the Democratic National Committee, also addressed the morning meeting, reminding delegates that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole opposed the federal family medical leave act.
That point hit home with Rosemary Hinkfuss, a former state representative from Green Bay, attending as a first-time delegate. "The Republican platform is shameless because it promotes something that can't exist -- like a job for every mother and never a sick child," said the grandmother of eight.
Posted August 28, 1996