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PCIntern

(26,601 posts)
Tue Mar 14, 2023, 09:12 AM Mar 2023

I had a great moment with Pat Schroeder in 1992...

Here in Philly, there was a fundraiser at a restaurant, called Jack’s Firehouse, and the guest speaker was none other than Pat Schroeder. It was a big crowd, we were waiting for her, and I was standing at the top of the steps, and finally she arrived and said hello to everybody with that nice smile that she had shaking hands and when she got up to the top of the steps, she said hello to me and I congratulated her on doing so well against Robert Novak the night before on CNN’s Crossfire.

She clasped my hand and started talking to me about the show, and the particulars of what had been discussed, and the state representative, who was escorting her, said “representative, we need to go in the back”. I presume that she meant that she was going to have to meet with the big money donors .

Well, the representative turned her, and in an extremely harsh voice, said “when I’m finished speaking with this gentleman, then I will accompany you, and you’re just going to have to wait.“ Then she turned back to me, put the smile back on her face, and said, “now where were we?… Oh, yes… “ And we finished the conversation.

That state representative, whom I knew from various political get togethers, never spoke to me again, - she would walk right past me without saying hello, because she thought that I had dissed her, which, of course I had not. She kind of disappeared from the scene , having married a rich doctor, and not having to worry about much I suppose.

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I had a great moment with Pat Schroeder in 1992... (Original Post) PCIntern Mar 2023 OP
Now SHE was a Democrat. Kid Berwyn Mar 2023 #1
I remember Representative Schroeder saying she thought she was... 3catwoman3 Mar 2023 #2

Kid Berwyn

(17,470 posts)
1. Now SHE was a Democrat.
Tue Mar 14, 2023, 09:29 AM
Mar 2023

Last edited Tue Mar 14, 2023, 10:43 AM - Edit history (1)

You were (and are) just as important to her as the BigWig Money Types.

3catwoman3

(25,217 posts)
2. I remember Representative Schroeder saying she thought she was...
Tue Mar 14, 2023, 11:48 AM
Mar 2023

…probably the only representative sworn in to the House with diapers in her purse. And also saying, “I have a brain and a uterus and I use them both.”

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