| In fact, I had only just met Shaffer, 83, a lively former Washington County Democrat committeewoman. |
| The former committeewoman turned the position into a job as a national conservative pundit. |
| Brister, who has served as a national committeewoman to the National Republican Committee for four years, succeeds Baton Rouge state Rep. |
| Hansberry's mother, Nannie Perry, a schoolteacher and, later, ward committeewoman, was from Tennessee. |
| Party leaders recruited a Democratic committeewoman running for City Council to challenge him. |
| She never wanted to be a state committeewoman, and then they elected her district leader, and she didn't want that either. |