Del. Teresa Saavedra Woorman is on the tail-end — pun intended — of a whirlwind.
A one-in-a-million shot from a Democratic National Convention camera made Woorman, a Montgomery County Democrat, Maryland’s resident “childless cat lady.”
She was sworn into the Maryland General Assembly as a delegate on Aug. 12, and was whisked off to Chicago one week later.
“Oh, my God, it was electric,” said Woorman. “I used to go to Disney World a lot, and this was better than Disney World.”
What she didn’t realize in all of the hustle and bustle on the floor of the DNC was that she would become famous, even if just for a moment.
Oprah Winfrey, former talk show host and famous friend of Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, was delivering a speech when Woorman began to receive text messages.
Cameras cut to Maryland delegate as Oprah said ‘childless cat lady’ at the DNC
“When a house is on fire, we don’t ask about the homeowner’s race, or religion. We don’t wonder who their partner is or how they voted. No. We just try to do the best we can to save them. And if the place happens to belong to a childless cat lady, well, we try to get the cat out, too,” Winfrey said as the camera panned to Woorman.