Posted on 03/01/2021 1:35:32 PM PST by keat
When the news came Sunday night that Barbara Keating died at 82 following a stroke, there was sadness among conservatives on both the East and West Coasts.
As the U.S. Senate nominee of the insurgent New York Conservative Party in 1974, Keating, a widow and mother of five, impressed audiences with her speaking style and no-holds-barred conservative stands on issues.
On a shoe-string budget and with an almost exclusively volunteer campaign, she drew 16% of the vote and held veteran liberal GOP Sen. Jacob Javits to a career-low 45% in his reelection.
By 1992, having relocated to Northern California and known as Barbara Keating-Edh, she had married Swedish-born businessman Lennarth Edh, she carried the Republican banner in the 25th Assembly District. In a heartbreakingly close contest, 51.5% to 48.5%, Keating-Edh lost to liberal Democrat Margaret Snyder.
Wherever she lived, Barbara Keating seem to find a cause and motivate others to join it through her infectious personality, high energy level, and insistence on learning everything there was to know about an issue.
When U.S. Marine Corps Major Daniel J. Keating was shipped to Vietnam in August, 1967, wife Barbara became head of the household of five children aged two to seven in Mamaroneck (Westchester County), New York. She soon grew upset that the teachers in public schools her children attended were denouncing the government, denigrating soldiers in Vietnam, and being disrespectful to the flag.
Keating put her thoughts in a letter to the Mamoroneck Daily News, which ran it as an op-ed. Almost overnight, she was recruited for a new group called the “Honor America Committee of Westchester County.” Its mission was to see the Pledge of Allegiance was recited and the Stars and Stripes hung at schools throughout the county.
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