1. Margaret "Midge" Costanza was an American presidential advisor and a social and political activist.
14 Facts About Midge Costanza
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Midge Costanza served as a Democratic National Committee member from 1972 until 1977.
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Midge Costanza lost a race for the United States House of Representatives in 1974 to the popular Republican incumbent.
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In 1976 when Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter ran for President of the United States, Midge Costanza served as co-chair of his New York campaign operation and gave a seconding speech for him at the Democratic National Convention.
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Midge Costanza was nicknamed "the President's window to the nation", consulting with a wide array of groups.
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Midge Costanza caused controversy when she invited fourteen National Gay Task Force leaders and gay rights activists to the White House at the height of Anita Bryant's homophobic "Save Our Children" campaign.
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Midge Costanza went on to arrange discussions between the NGTF co-directors and senior officials of the administration.
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Midge Costanza had been popular with women's groups, and had earned herself a Newsweek cover titled "Woman in the White House".
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Midge Costanza became executive director of her friend Shirley MacLaine's "Higher Self" seminars after moving to Los Angeles and later became vice-president at Alan Landsburg Productions, where she made commercial films and advertisements.
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Midge Costanza served on many service group boards of directors, including the AIDS research organization Search Alliance and the National Gay Rights Advocates.
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Midge Costanza lost that job when Gray Davis lost a recall reelection in November 2003.
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Midge Costanza was nominated and inducted into the San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame in 2011 by Women's Museum of California, Commission on the Status of Women, University of California, San Diego Women's Center, and San Diego State University Women's Studies.
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Midge Costanza died of cancer at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, California, on March 23,2010, at the age of 77.
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Midge Costanza was nominated and inducted into the San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame in 2011 for the title of Trailblazer, meaning, women who have paved the way for other women, or were the first in their field.