I Was the First Woman to Run For Mayor Of L.A.
In My Career, People Always Cared That I Was Female. Today, We’ve Got Better Things To Worry About.
The first person to show me women could be active in politics was my grandmother, an ardent New Dealer and lifelong admirer of FDR. We lived in Tucumari, New Mexico, and once I got my driver’s license (at age 15), she never let me go to school on an election day again. My job, instead, was to drive people to the polls. When I’d finished with one group, she’d have a list of new people for me to pick up.
In 1993, when I decided to run for mayor of Los …
