She scored high marks in her role as co-chairman of the 1972 Democratic National Convention and made history as the first member of Congress to be granted a maternity leave. But after six years of involvement in national politics, California Representative Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, 45, has decided to go local. Instead of trying for a fourth term in the capital, she is now running for state attorney general. "In Washington, I was only one out of 43 members of the California congressional delegation. In California, I will be one out of one," says Burke....
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