It was a wonderful night, despite the hassle of political appeal. When the National Association of Women Owned Business held its 8th Annual Awards and Membership dinner at the NY Hilton on Tuesday, March 21, the evening's smooth schedule took a turn south when a local comedienne took the stage. It wasn't that she was that bad--au contraire, she kept over 300 women and some men chuckling as she complained about relationship issues and "the problem with men." Her distress – and ours -- was that we were all apparently waiting for Leslie Grossman, president of Marcom Action and president of NAWBO-NYC. When Leslie showed up, we realized why she huffed a hello and then introduced the real traffic snag--First Lady and NYS Senatorial candidate, Hillary Clinton.
So when we should've been well into the awards presentations of the 10 women whom we were there to honor and congratulate, we were forced into a campaign speech thinly veiled as a Thank You for being made an honorary member. Security guards walked around shifty-eyed during the photo opps afterwards.
Forty minutes later the awards resumed.
