From Bill Zwecker's column in the Chicago Sun Times on December 21, 2009:

SEEN ON SCENE: President Obama's former Illinois legislative colleagues -- including state Reps. Susanna Mendoza, Sara Feigenholtz and Karen May and state Sen. Don Harmon, plus Dorothy Brown and Equality Illinois activists Rick Garcia and Art Johnston, were among those spied at one of the many White House holiday fetes. They were among the last to leave the party last week, hearing the White House gates clanging shut loudly as they exited. ...