Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Pakazosvika 1971, Collins aive purezidhendi weJayceettes; kuburikidza nebasa rake ipapo, akawana kutariswa kweDemocratic state senator Walter "Dee" Huddleston. Huddleston akakumbira Collins kuti atungamirire mushandirapamwe waWendell Ford wokutsvaka kuva gavhuna mu6th District. J. R. Miller, panguva iyoyo sachigaro weDemocratic Party yenyika, akataura kuti "Akaronga dunhu iroro nenzira yausingagoni kutenda". Pashure pokukunda kwaFord, akadana Collins kuti ave mukadzi weDemocratic National Committee anobva kuKentucky. Akasiya basa rake rokudzidzisa ndokuenda kunoshanda nguva yakazara pahofisi huru yeDemocratic Party, semunyori webato reDemocratic party uye senhume kuDemocratic National Convention ya1972. Gore rakatevera, akashanda mushandirapamwe waHuddleston weSeneti yeU.S. Muna 1975, Collins akakunda kusarudzwa kweDemocratic kweMunyori weKentucky Court of Appeals mune shanu-nzira yekutanga. Musarudzo huru, akakunda weRepublican Joseph E. Lambert nemavhoti e382,528 kusvika ku233,442. Munguva yehutongi hwake, shanduko kumutemo wehurumende yakashandura zita reDare reKanzuru kuenda kuDare Repamusorosoro reKentucky; Collins ndiye aive munhu wekupedzisira kubata hofisi yeClerk of the Court of Appeals uye wekutanga kubata hofisi yeClerk of the Supreme Court. Semunyori, akaunganidza uye akagovera bhurocha pamusoro pebasa idzva reDare Repamusorosoro, uye akashanda nebazi redzidzo rehurumende kugadzira bhuku remudzidzisi rekushandisa muzvikoro zvehurumende, achitsanangura shanduko dzakaitwa mudare redzimhosva semhedzisiro yekugadziriswa kwebumbiro. The Woodford County chitsauko zvebhizimisi uye Professional Women akasarudza Collins sezvo yayo 1976 Woman Achievement, uye muna 1977, Gavhuna Julian Carroll akamutumidza Kentucky Executive Director of Friendship Force. Mumunda kuti zvaisanganisira nhanhatu huru musarudzo, Collins yakachengeteka Democratic kusarudzwa kuti lieutenant gavhuna muna 1979 chikuru, achiunganidza 23 muzana mavhoti. Akakurumidza kukunda muRepublican Hal Rogers musarudzo huru 543,176 kusvika ku316,798. Somutevedzeri gavhuna, akafamba...  Mubvunzo: Collins akakumbirwa kutungamira dunhu ripi?
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