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In front of roughly 200 supporters gathered at a cold, windy Northerly Island, former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun formally announced her candidacy for Chicago mayor Saturday. “I just want to serve,” Braun said. “Government is about the people’s business and my life’s work has been dedicated to making government work for all of the people.” In her 24-minute speech, Braun said that opponent Rahm Emanuel’s television ads about Chicago needing to decide whether to be a great city or a second-tier city “pose a completely false choice.” “Chicago will always be a great city, because its people will tolerate...

Guess who else is feeling a draft to run for mayor of Chicago? Carol Moseley-Braun, who held Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat from 1992 to 1998, says she started getting calls as soon as Mayor Daley announced he would not seek re-election. Actually, someone texted her as Daley made his announcement, she said. “This is all very new — I’ve been out of politics a long time,” Moseley-Braun said. “But I’m seriously considering this.” Moseley-Braun’s last official post was ambassador to New Zealand from 1998 to 2001. Now she runs her own organic food company called “Ambassador Organics.” The Hyde...

FORT DODGE, Iowa, Jan. 14 — Former ambassador Carol Moseley Braun plans to drop out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and endorse Howard Dean on Thursday, giving him an important symbolic boost just four days before Iowa's leadoff caucuses, Dean campaign aides said on Wednesday. Ms. Braun, a former senator from Illinois and ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, had failed to garner much money or support in polls, but had distinguished herself with eloquent performances in several nationally televised debates. She and Dr. Dean, the former governor of Vermont, had developed a mutually respectful relationship throughout...

Democratic presidential hopeful Carol Moseley Braun's shoestring campaign faces another upheaval as she names former NOW chairwoman Patricia Ireland as her latest campaign manager while other key aides depart. "I have made a whole adult career out of tilting at windmills,'' Ireland said Sunday. Ireland becomes Braun's third campaign chief. Longtime Braun confidant Billie Paige ends her tenure today as treasurer while consultants Kitty Kurth and Kevin Lampe, the Chicago-based husband-and-wife team working with Braun since the start of her longshot bid, left the campaign on Friday, citing "personal'' reasons. Braun has resisted any suggestion she drop out of the...

Former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun plans to file papers for a presidential exploratory committee early next week, a spokesman said Wednesday. Her entry into the 2004 presidential race will expand the Democratic field of candidates to seven. "We are planning to file papers Tuesday for an exploratory committee," said Kevin Lampe, spokesman for Moseley-Braun. He said Moseley-Braun will go to Iowa on Saturday, New Hampshire on Sunday and South Carolina on Monday as a guest of American Women Presidents, a political action committee. Moseley-Braun also plans to request a speaking slot along with other presidential candidates at the Democratic National...

Former Senator Carol Moseley Braun is expected today to announce that she will be running for her old seat on Capitol Hill.Moseley Braun lost it six years ago to Republican Peter Fitzgerald.According to a Chicago Democratic operative, Moseley Braun elicted laughter from several party officials weeks ago when she told them she was mulling a run for the Presdiency of the United States.'They couldn't help themselves, said one operative..'It just came out of left field.'Actually, it's not suprising that the former Senator, who once famously told staffers that she deserved to be treated like a princess, has an inflated opinion...

According to one Democratic source who reached us right before deadline former Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun talked by phone last night to Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who seems to have been on his cell phone at Georgetown's Cafe Milano, where he ran into some of Americas leading political reporters.In any event, per this one 'Golden Source' Ms. Braun told McAuliffe that she was planning to announce that she is NOT running for the Illinois Senate seat, but that she just might want to reserve one of those Presidential candidate slots at the upcoming Democratic National Committee meeting...