[Yakima Democrats] Yakima Women Greet Nancy Pelosi

[yakdems-announce at yakimademocrats.com]

    Three members of the Yakima Democratic Women's Club were in the 
crowd of 300 or so who greeted U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a 
spirited (women only)  reception in Seattle City Hall last Friday (4/13) 
afternoon.
    Jo Ann Tollefson, Kathi  Bonlender and Deb Hunt all expressed their 
delight at meeting the charming speaker and the accompanying dignitaries 
that included Congressmen Jay Inslee, Jim McDermott and Norm Dicks, 
Seattle Mayor Greg Nichols and King County Executive Ron Sims.
    Earlier, Speaker Pelosi met with the Governor Christine Gregoire and 
other elected Democrats and headlined a luncheon that was expected to 
raise $150,000 for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
    In her remarks to the throng at Seattle City Hall, Speaker Pelosi 
spoke forcefully of the determination of the Democratic Congress to 
bring our combat troops home from the Iraq War "safely and soon."
    She also recounted the achievements of Democrats since taking 
control of the House and Senate after the November election and spoke of 
how honored she was to have been elected the first woman speaker in U.S. 
history. Speaker Pelosi praised the work of Washington's most prominent 
women in public office: Governor Gregoire and U.S. Senators Patty Murray 
and Maria Cantwell.
    The reception took place in the beautifully appointed Bertha Knight 
Landes Room in the huge lobby in Seattle City Hall. The room was named 
in honor of Seattle's first woman mayor who served from 1926 - 28 and 
led a major drive to clean up municipal corruption. At that time, she 
was the first woman ever elected mayor of a major U.S. city.