Koryne Kaneski Horbal

Career

She also served as a chairwoman of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party. In 1973 she and five other women founded the DFL Feminist Caucus, with Horbal as Chair. The other founders were Cynthia Kitlinski, Yvette Oldendorf, Mary Pattock (then Bremer), Jeri Rasmussen, and Peggy Specktor.

Within a year, their grassroots organizing resulted in increasing the number of women in the Minnesota State Legislature from one to 14—all of them feminist.

(State Republican feminists soon followed suit with a Grand Old Party Feminist Caucus)

The caucus subsequently gave up its independent status and became chartered by the DFL party. In 2004 Augsburg College established the Koryne Horbal Lecture series in her honor.

The series has featured Robin Morgan (2004), Jane Fonda (2007), Winona LaDuke (2008), Alicia Cabezudo (2009), and The Guerrilla Girls (2010), among others In 2008 Augsburg awarded Horbal an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, in recognition of her work around the world, "which has given voice to women's political and social issues.

1980 Democratic National Convention

Jimmy Carter (inc) - 2,123 (6404%)

Ted Kennedy - 1,151 (3472%)

William Proxmire - 10 (030%)

Koryne Kaneski Horbal - 5 (015%)

Scott M. Matheson, Senior

- 5 (015%)

Ron Dellums - 3 (009%)

Robert Byrd - 2 (006%)

John Culver - 2 (006%)

Kent Hance - 2 (006%)

Jennings Randolph - 2 (006%)

Warren Spannaus - 2 (006%)

Alice Tripp - 2 (006%)

Jerry Brown - 1 (003%)

Dale Bumpers - 1 (003%)

Hugh L. Carey - 1 (003%)

Walter Mondale - 1 (003%)

Edmund Muskie - 1 (003%)

Thomas J. Steed - 1 (003%).

Achievements

• Their first legislative success, won in coalition with other women"s groups, was ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1980, although she was not a candidate, Horbal won five votes for President of the United States at the Democratic National Convention, which placed her after Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy and William Proxmire (see below).

Politics

lieutenant was the first instance of United States. party regulars organizing as an independent political force outside their own party to support feminist principles, including the Equal Rights Amendment, reproductive choice, workplace equity, and, most controversially, a pledge to support only DFL candidates who would endorse the caucus principles.