"Hillary Girls": Clinton's Westchester Sisterhood ("She empowers women.") (Hillary Group)
....Ever since her move to Chappaqua following her tenure as first lady, Clinton has forged a sisterhood of sorts with a cadre of local women. Some call themselves the “Hillary Girls”— many are former volunteers from her days as New York senator....
The women meet for brunch around the holidays – in recent years the group has grown to include spouses. Former president Bill Clinton is a regular attendee.
They send her an orchid on her birthday each year. She’s attended their children’s bar and bat mitzvahs, celebrated their milestone birthday parties and called them when they were sick....
Carol Evans, a longtime Chappaqua resident and president emeritus of Working Mother Media, first met Clinton when they served on a panel titled “Wise Wonderful Women of Westchester,” organized by Temple Beth El in Chappaqua.
“She remembered something that every single person said and she hadn’t taken any notes,” Evans, who co-chairs a group called Executive Women for Hillary, recalled. “She said something significant, almost quoting what each of us had said. I was blown away.”
Chappaqua resident Grace Bennett, publisher and editor of Inside Chappaqua magazine, joined the press corps in the summer of 2012 to travel on then-Secretary Clinton’s mission to Africa.
The fact that Clinton would give such an opportunity to her hometown magazine shows how much she values being part of the community, Bennett said.
For (Geri) Shapiro, who now serves as a senior adviser to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Clinton was responsible for her second act.
Clinton hired then 58-year-old Shapiro as regional director for Westchester when she was elected senator. Shapiro was a stay-at-home mom whose experience was limited to serving as a PTA president and volunteering for the Clinton campaign. Shapiro says she’s surprised to this day about being picked, given all the talent Clinton had access to.
“She empowers women," Shapiro said. "Besides my mother’s voice, I always hear Hillary’s voice in my ear. She’s sensible and she’s resilient."
http://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/11/24/hillary-girls-clintons-westchester-sisterhood/76280580/ via The Journal News
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