Pros And Cons Of Jordan Vs Whitfield

Jordan had it ruff knowing that her state senator opponent was Charles Whitfield, who had already served eight years in the senate. He was a white male that was backed up by the county Harris Democratic Committee all of the eight times he ran for office. Where she knows she was going to work two times harder than her previous campaigns to have a slight chance of winning, being black gave her an advantage in this campaign due to the black voters that were helping her gain the Democratic committee. While her opponent Whitfield, was not too thrilled to see that the black votes benefited her, Whitfield came to the meeting in March and announced that Jordan was unqualified to represent the people in the 11th district. Barbara heard the comment he

At one-point President Johnson asked Jordan for her opinion over the proposal of the fair housing bill where she said “this seems like a proper time to move on this legislation. It won’t be easy. It will take work.” which was not the best of what she could have said at the moment but still managed to impress the President which was tough to do so. In March 1967 marked her first speech in the senate floor and said “I felt people in a very bottom way were fair, and I felt I could appeal to this fairness and reasonableness in my colleges when the right matter came along.” She singled out taxes proposal for those that were poor this proposal would harm more than do good and even though Jordan was not able to gather enough support to vanish the proposal at that her attempt. Later when Barbara presented her first bill which she fought for the discrimination in the workplace was passed by 30 to 1 vote. Jordan as well fought for the voting