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Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 02:35 PM Aug 2014

23 yr old home-schooled daughter of N. Lake Tea Party founder Patricia Sullivan elected to Fl House



In the final days before Tuesday's election, voters in Florida House District 31 got campaign mail aimed at thwarting 23-year-old Jennifer Sullivan, who had surged past her much older and better-financed opponents.

"Wisdom comes with age," the attack ad read. "Can a 23-year-old, still living at home, truly represent us?"

Voters in the district that covers northern Orange and Lake counties answered yes at the polls, electing by six percentage points the home-schooled daughter of North Lake Tea Party founder Patricia Sullivan to a two-year term.

Jennifer Sullivan, who was 15 when she organized a Lake County 4-H project that gathered more than 3 tons of peanut butter for Central Florida food banks, will become the youngest female legislator in Florida history and the youngest of any gender since 1996, when Adam Putnam, then 22, won his first statehouse race.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-jennifer-sullivan-youngest-legislator-20140830,0,5770480.story
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23 yr old home-schooled daughter of N. Lake Tea Party founder Patricia Sullivan elected to Fl House (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Aug 2014 OP
Great ProudToBeBlueInRhody Aug 2014 #1
It will be interesting to see her explain her votes. Baitball Blogger Aug 2014 #2
Spoiler ProudToBeBlueInRhody Aug 2014 #3
If she's a Teabagger, her age is meaningless. MineralMan Aug 2014 #4
You beat me by one minute! louis-t Aug 2014 #6
It doesn't matter, she won't act out of any kind of intelligence. louis-t Aug 2014 #5
From the article. Democrats failed to offer a candidate Lochloosa Aug 2014 #7
Teabaggers are mental toddlers anyway. JaneyVee Aug 2014 #8
that does not matter at all onethatcares Aug 2014 #10
Who cares 3rdwaydem Aug 2014 #9
Well, don't I feel like a slacker at the ripe old age of -- under 30. nt Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2014 #11
I sure hope we Dems can replace her next time around nt steve2470 Aug 2014 #12
Florida Dems seem to be a timorous group. Baitball Blogger Aug 2014 #13

louis-t

(23,297 posts)
5. It doesn't matter, she won't act out of any kind of intelligence.
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 02:44 PM
Aug 2014

She'll always vote the way her benefactors want her to. Her age will have nothing to do with it. But it will be fun to listen to her try to explain.......anything.

onethatcares

(16,185 posts)
10. that does not matter at all
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 04:26 PM
Aug 2014

that's the problem with Florida. There isn't a decent Democratic nominee for a seat because in the central/north/panhandle part of the state the stupid runs rampant. Then toss in the fact that St Joe and Mosaic run most of the jobs there are not going to be many that are willing to buck their neighbors and friends way of thinking.

She'll vote the way her daddy tells her to, and she'll collect a salary and benefits with the position. Sure beats working at the waffle house or walmart but she'll go on to be a career pol voting for whatever Walmart/St Joe/Mosaic/ and the insurance companies want her to.

 

3rdwaydem

(277 posts)
9. Who cares
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 03:48 PM
Aug 2014

It sounds like it's a heavily Republican district. They'll get the type of representation they deserve.

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)
13. Florida Dems seem to be a timorous group.
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 10:47 PM
Aug 2014

I really do get the impression that they don't know how to reach out to people who may have a different set of experiences than they have. And sometimes I worry that they are just concerned about getting on the bad side of politicos if they show too much interest in someone who might have been shunned because of their strong opinions or views.

Just a feeling I get.

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