She did a number of quality covers of other folks' stuff, but politically is a dolt. :')
Yup. She was Jerry (Moonbeam) Brown's 'squeeze' once when he was governator.
When she went on tours she would put together groups from the Music Union in LA for each tour. One of the groups she put together became the Eagles. In fact, she sang the song Desporado with this group before the Eagles released it.