What about a woman Mormon candidate? Or is that possible? Can anyone come up with a woman holding a public office that is a Mormon?
"Can anyone come up with a woman holding a public office that is a Mormon?"
Besides Harry Reid?
My guess is that Olene Walker, who was acting governor of Utah after Mike Leavitt went to Washington, is a Mormon. But it is instructive that she ran on the ticket as a Lt. Governor and was gently moved aside when the time came to choose a candidate for 2004.
Ronna Romney ran for Senate in Michigan against Carl Levin a long time ago.
Oh, and who can forget poor Enid Greene Waldholz, single-term representative from Salt Lake County who inadvertently led to the election of Scott Matheson by paving the way for Merrill Cook.
Most Mormon women are too tired after raising seven children...