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Running for the Garden State's open Senate seat, Rep. Fenwick has unashamedly capitalized on the personal charm which long ago captured national attention. The patrician accent is as genuine as the pearls on her neck and the concern she voices for the common man, distant though he may be from her lifestyle and upbringing. No one in New Jersey, with the possible exception of certain construction industry heavyweights, dislikes Fenwick...
...LEFTY CARTOONIST Garry Trudesu has made heroes of few Republicans. New Jersey's Millicent Fenwick, artfully portrayed as the aristocrat-legislator Lacey Davenport, is one of his exceptions. Adding welcome bursts of mature wit to the rambunctious world of "Doonesbury," Davenport pursues Washington no-good-niks with persistence and good taste. After vigorously lecturing a mobster friend of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan for making late-night death threats, she wonders aloud whether she has "hurt the poor man's feelings...
Like her fictional counterpart, Fenwick has consistently scolded her colleagues about official wrongdoing during her four terms in the House. She has spoken out in favor of benefits for the elderly and sympathy for the poor and minorities. Despite New Jersey's dependence on heavy industry, she has taken farsighted stands on environmental issues--although, as in other areas, she has not been a prime mover behind significant legislation. In fact, Fenwick can claim few substantive accomplishments as a representative. Her chief solo achievement has been to win a minor revision in tax laws which previously penalized married people...
...Fenwick's reputation as the friend of the working and lower classes becomes somewhat ambiguous in light of her record since 1980. Like most Republicans, she backed every aspect of President Reagan's economic package, including massive tax cuts, huge in creases in defense spending, and reductions in federal budgets for social programs...
...FRIEND probably came closest to getting handle on this flamboyant fellow when he recalled the character of Fenwick In Barry Levinson's recent film Diner. Fenwick in the handsome and defiant preppy with a mysterious flair, the one who pushes himself to dangerous extreme for a laugh. He tips the car and dances himself with ketchup and trick his friendships, clever as ever in the flamingo-laden living room of a friend, Fenwick quietly answers every College Bowl questions emanating from a grainy TV screen-all-for a lick...