Word: committeewoman
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...problem, however, is that Wyoming may declare for no clear favorite of its own on Jan. 5. Jan Larimer, Wyoming's national-level state committeewoman, who will lose her own 2008 convention seat under the RNC penalty, says, "It would be nice if we had a winner. I have no sense of any favorite so far. I think we're going to have a very mixed bag. I think we're going to have quite a few undecided, those not bound to support any one candidate." The 12 delegates who will be chosen on Saturday each have to represent...
...indeed. We're all waiting for the final recount from the Sunshine State, and assuming some consensus is reached by December 18, the Democratic or Republican slate of electors will be certified to vote in the state capital. Their ranks include Diane Glasser, a National Democratic Committeewoman from the Fort Lauderdale area, and Tom Slade, the former chairman of the Florida State Republican Committee...
...heavily Democratic district, Dixon, 46, had no difficulty in trouncing former police chief Maurice Turner, 55, a Barry appointee who turned Republican only last year after being urged to do so by President Bush -- he of the short coattails. Dixon, long a prominent party leader and former national committeewoman, inherits a city ravaged by crime with a budget deficit that may run as high as $200 million...
...across the aisle Texas women hugged and wept. It was O.K. to cry. "Did you ever think you would see the day?" Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards kept repeating. "I've worked 32 years in politics, and nothing has made me so happy," sobbed Billie Carr, Democratic National Committeewoman. Carr was 27 days old when she was taken to the 1928 Houston Democratic Convention, where the nation's first elected woman Governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, was briefly presented as a vice-presidential nominee and gave a seconding speech for Al Smith...
Vice-presidential bids were more common. As early as 1924, the Democratic Convention considered, and rejected, South Carolina Committeewoman Lena Springs. The last strong bid was by Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold of Texas, who won 404 Democratic delegate votes in 1972 but was beaten by Thomas Eagleton. The small parties that occupy the fringes of American politics have been more willing to support women. In 1980 there were seven nominations for the No. 2 spot, including LaDonna Harris as vice-presidential choice of the Citizens Party and Angela Davis as that of the Communists. Such gestures, however, remained little more than...