Shelley in the 1990s
In 1994, Shelley set her sights on a county Democratic Central Committee seat in the Westside and San Fernando Valley district; but she was disqualified. She came down with the flu; so she asked someone else to take over the signature-gathering needed to secure her a seat. But the man who did it didn’t live in the 41st District (a requirement) so it rendered all the signatures he gathered invalid. But Shelley wasn’t disappointed. "My concern is less elective office and politics," she said, "My concern is community service, and there's plenty to do."
