IVIV: Penny Kimball and f**king the powers that be

[alice wellintown]

The decade of the Woman is sure not giving much hope to Hope, the
Feminists had hoped to pass some day care law to help working Moms,
single and married, earn a salary approaching Males in the same job,
but Nixon viewed it as Communist family tampering.

We see Aunt Reet holding down a business, more than a mere job, and
raising a family.

We see Kimball (that name is dadaesque, as in guru of the data
warehouse as dave matthews sez and Disney too) juggling a man or two
and a career.

Spent some time with some of these tight skirt power braziers when I
was doing a research project for jerry jeff walker, turns out mr bo
jangles learned his steps in a parish cell down in FQ territory, but
as dylan always sez, i was just a hungry kid trying to make a name for
myself in a movie starring gregory peck when this confederacy of
mechanical brides with polished fenders splashed muddy waters in my
eyes.

Larry can’t get Kimball on the home line so he has to call her at
work: “at her office downtown.” Like Aunt Reet and Shasta, she is a
busy woman. She doesn’t stay home waiting by the phone. She had a
lunch date. Was it a business lunch date or was she meeting a friend,
someone special? It was a date. She got stood up. So, she agreed to
pencil Larry in for lunch; we can assume that Larry would be erased
from Kimball’s busy appointment book if a more promising date called
her. So Kimball is pleasure before business, but not when it comes to
Larry. How did Kimball get to be Deputy DA? As Bigfoot tells it, it’s
not easy to rise in the ranks at the LAPD.  Not too many females
detectives circa 1970. The LAPD's first female detective team—which in
turn became the inspiration for the TV series Cagney & Lacey, was not
on the beat until 1978.

Clara Foltz – California’s first woman attorney and first woman deputy
district attorney in Los Angeles County.  At the Chicago World’s Fair
in 1893, during a "congress" of the Board of Lady Managers, Foltz
introduced her idea of the public defender, with a speech entitled
"Rights of Persons Accused of Crime--Abuses Now Existing." Foltz's
then-radical concept of providing assistance to indigent criminal
defendants is used today throughout the United States. She also
created a similar model for the California Parole System. Her many
other trail-blazing accomplishments included becoming the first female
clerk for the State Judiciary Committee; the first woman appointed to
the State Board of Corrections; the first female licensed Notary
Public; the first woman named director of a major bank; and, in 1930,
the first woman to run for Governor of California, at the age of
eighty-one.  In 1910, she was appointed to the Los Angeles District
Attorney's Office, becoming the first female deputy district attorney
in the United States. She was active in the suffrage movement,
authoring the Women's Vote Amendment for California in 1911.