| In fact, I had only just met Shaffer, 83, a lively former Washington County Democrat committeewoman. |
| Carol Ronen, the 48th Ward Democratic committeewoman, said she welcomes the progressive groups that have emerged in recent years. |
| Like Mr. Doherty, Mary O'Connor, the Democratic ward committeewoman and aldermanic candidate, said party affiliation had had little, if anything, to do with city government. |
| Heidi Smith, the Republican national committeewoman from Nevada, said the focus on illegal immigration was a distraction. |
| She never wanted to be a state committeewoman, and then they elected her district leader, and she didn't want that either. |
| Hansberry's mother, Nannie Perry, a schoolteacher and, later, ward committeewoman, was from Tennessee. |
