I rarely promote my own candidates or clients because it feels awkward, but my newest client shocked the hell outa me. I mostly do new media work with the campaign (despite being a youth politics expert) so let me preface all of this by saying that I have - not once - had a conversation with this candidate about the youth movement, about young people, about young voters, or the best ways to do youth outreach. Not once.
Jari Askins, the current Lt. Governor of Oklahoma spoke at the Young Democrats of Oklahoma convention several weeks ago and I have to say it was probably the first time I've ever heard a candidate actually dispel the constant myth that young people don't participate or get involved.
"For those of us who have been in political office for a number of years, we sometimes hear from our local parties that 'we just can't get the young people involved. We just can't get the young people interested.' And my observation when I was State Representative and then as Lt. Governor has been that you guys are the ones who are involved. And a lot of times its the local parties who are not as involved as they ought to be."
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