I just thought of another one, but I can't remember her name - and I tried Googling in vain.

In the Detroit mayoral election of 1980, there was Coleman Young, John Mogk, and a few other people running. One of them was an OOLLDD gray-haired white lady, I'm about 75 percent confident her first name was Mary but I have no idea what her last name was. She was definitely a very animated character who was always talking about how she had lots of experience running her business [[whatever it was) "on Vernor Highway." She didn't have a ghost of a chance of winning and everybody knew that but she was still quite a vocal character to listen to and if nothing else kept the debates entertaining!

Does anybody remember her name?