18-Year-Old Wins State Legislature Seat in West Virginia
The Wall Street Journal describes Blair as "fiscally conservative," and she "campaigned on a pledge to work to reduce certain taxes on businesses." Her website boasts an "A" rating from the NRA and endorsements from West Virginians for Life. As a 17-year-old, Blair primaried the 66-year-old Republican incumbent Larry Kump and advanced to the general electionall while legally being unable to cast a vote for herself. Democratic attorney Layne Diehl, her general election opponent, had only good things to say last night about the teenager who beat her: "Quite frankly a 17- or 18-year-old young woman that has put herself out there and won a political campaign has certainly brought some positive press to the state."
Blair, an economics and Spanish major at West Virginia University, will defer her spring classes to attend the legislative session in the state capital. There, she'll join her father and campaign manager, Craig, who is a state senator.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/11/18-year-old-wins-state-legislature-seat-west-virginia
I thought this was a neat story until I got to the last line.
Now it's just another commentary on the electorate. They probably just voted on name recognition.
phil89
(1,043 posts)voting for an 18 year old is just bad judgment.
joeglow3
(6,228 posts)brendan120678
(2,490 posts)here in Connecticut. Think that wasn't name recognition?
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)pstokely
(10,546 posts)?
bucolic_frolic
(43,659 posts)An 18 year old is not ready to exercise sound reasoning, judgment, complexity about
society, laws, ideas, or much else.
Of course she'll be the next Robert Byrd - which gives her what, 74 more years in office?
Don't think it couldn't happen.
sorechasm
(631 posts)"sound reasoning, judgment, complexity about society, laws, ideas..."
You must have missed the fact that she is a Republican. These traits only get in the way of promoting scripted talking points.
The clone army is hatching.
bucolic_frolic
(43,659 posts)LOL .... i had the best chuckle this week on that one, thanks
but it's the laugh of high anxiety
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)GGJohn
(9,951 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)redruddyred
(1,615 posts)I always wonder if they'll grow out of it.
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