Bobbi Fiedler

Bobbi Fiedler ( born April 22, 1937 in Santa Monica, California) is an American politician. Between 1981 and 1987, she represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Roberta Frances Horowitz, so her maiden name, attended the public schools of their home and then 1955-1957 the Santa Monica Technical School. Between 1955 and 1959 she graduated from the Santa Monica City College. After that, she worked as a business woman. At the same time they hit as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. She seated herself against racial segregation in the public transport system, such as in buses. Between 1977 and 1980, she was sitting in the Education Committee of the City of Los Angeles. She was also from 1977 to 1987 delegates at all party conferences of the Republicans in California. In 1980 and 1984 she also took part in the Republican National Convention, where Ronald Reagan was nominated in each case as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1980, Fiedler was the 21st electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they succeeded the Democrat James C. Corman on January 3, 1981. After two re- elections she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1987 three legislative periods. In 1986 she gave up another candidacy. Instead, it sought unsuccessfully to their party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. Their failure is also linked to a corruption scandal that made ​​headlines in early 1986. It was criticized for bribing a rival candidate with $ 100,000 to renounce his candidacy. A judge dismissed the accusation and back but there was no method.

Nevertheless, the matter Bobbi Fiedler led the political sidelines. In the Senate primaries in 1986 she reached in her party only 7.2 % of the vote. Then it is no longer politically have appeared. Today she lives in Northridge.