Women Pitch New Bipartisan Group

• By Tricia Miller
• Roll Call Staff
• April 2, 2009, Midnight

After Jackie Speier won her first election in 1980, she picked an old fight and won it with a new strategy. She had just been elected the only woman on the San Mateo (Calif.) County Board, and she was determined to follow up on an idea to establish a commission on women that had been shot down two years earlier.