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Show r Beverly Saathoff announces for Demo. no, post Mrs. Beverly Saathoff io-day io-day announced her candidacy for.. the office of Democratic National Committee Woman for the Utah State Democrat, ic Party. A former President of the Democratic Women's Club of Utah, Mrs. Saathoff said, "I have attempted to en-courage en-courage greater female Involvement In-volvement and participation in Utah politics. Women, historically his-torically in our state have played a major role in both organizational and voluntary efforts in behalf of their respective re-spective party. Now it is appropriate ap-propriate for women to assume as-sume a greater responsibility responsibili-ty in managing party affairs." af-fairs." After all, said Mrs. Saathoff, we women have been the backbone of grass-root grass-root pplitics in this state and the time has come for Democratic elected officials and party leaders to recognize recog-nize our capability and contributions. con-tributions. I shall encourage elected officials to give greater recognition of the potential po-tential of women by placing them in more responsible positions po-sitions in the public arena. Having vast experience in both volunteer andorganiza-tional andorganiza-tional politics, I feel I have the capability to offer lead-ership lead-ership and energy that our party requires on a dally basis. I have served as a Senatorial Sena-torial District Chairperson, Voting District Vice Chair-person Chair-person and a memberofboth Salt Lake County and the State Central Committees. I accepted my parties request in 1972 as a candidate for the Utah State Senate from District Dis-trict 9. |