When Washington’s Gridiron Club announced that Mallory McMorrow would be the Democratic speaker at its winter dinner, a surprising number of the political correspondents in its ranks were baffled.
Even some regular Twitter users were unaware of the Michigan state senator, whose fame exploded in social media circles and the broader political universe last April after she pointedly challenged a Republican who accused her of wanting to “groom and sexualize kindergartners.”
Now, the members of Washington’s oldest journalistic organization know, after her well-received speech Saturday that stressed the importance of state legislatures and Michigan’s growing political power on the weekend it finally won its 20-year fight for an early presidential primary.
