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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...

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...

Rumours at the Democratic National Committee have [Former Ambassador] Carol Moseley Braun mulling a quick exit from the 2004 Democratic Presdiential Primary.The former Illinois Senator did not stay in Iowa after the debates last Saturday evening and inside the DNC her campaign is said to be in disarray.'She isn't raising money, she doesn't seem to have any kind of support staff in Iowa or New Hampshire,' says a DNC staffer. 'It is not clear what she is doing.'Since joining the Presidential race in mid February, Ms. Braun has raised less than $80,000.00, and only recently has she opened office space...

Buoyed by a new poll that shows her edging the Rev. Al Sharpton, Democrat Carol Moseley Braun brought her presidential campaign to Sharpton's home turf yesterday. But Braun - the only black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Senate - bristled at any suggestion Sharpton is her chief rival for the nomination. "The black community is not a monolith, and to suggest that black voters have to be [in] lockstep and have to get behind a single black candidate seems to take that community for granted," she said in an interview with the Daily News. "And to suggest that...

George Washington is turning over in his grave...

Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun is to announce the creation of her presidential exploratory committee today at the University of Chicago, where she graduated law school. Moseley-Braun, the Illinois Democrat and former ambassador to New Zealand, said she will campaign as a "peace dove and a deficit hawk.'' She makes a national announcement today in Washington and will appear at a Democratic National Committee forum Friday for 2004 presidential candidates. There are now eight Democrats who have either declared or are exploring presidential runs.

Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, who is considering running for president on the Democratic ticket in 2004, stands at a podium before speaking to a small group at an event sponsored by the American Women Presidents organization in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2003. Moseley-Braun is spending the President's Day weekend at campaign events in the key early states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, appearing at events sponsored by the organization. Ten inches of snow Saturday in Des Moines kept many from attending. (AP Photo/Alex Dorgan-Ross)

MOSELEY-BRAUN: Presidents' Day Plans Ex-Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL) accepted invitations 1/28 to speak in Des Moines 2/15, NH 2/16 and SC 2/17 at events sponsored by American Women Presidents. In an interview, Moseley-Braun said: "If I were to do this, it would make sense for me to come to Iowa. To talk about issues is what I like best. That's what motivates me about the whole set of challenges that a national campaign would represent. I just hope down the road we'll have a chance to discuss them in greater detail." IA Dems "said they would welcome Moseley-Braun" to the...

Former senator Carol Moseley-Braun (Ill.) has told Democratic Party officials she's seriously thinking of joining the growing field of candidates for the party's presidential nomination in 2004.

The Democratic Presidential field may grow by one today.According to a senior aide to former one term United States Senator and Former Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun will reveal around 1:00 PM ET, VIA written statement the 'course of her exploration' of her future.She will spend the rest of the day giving interviews, explaining why she is either running for Senate or thinking about running for President