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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums23 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
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Another Michelle Bachmann
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)"Jesus told me"
MineralMan
(146,331 posts)She'll vote like a teabagger. Ugh!
louis-t
(23,297 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)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.
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)That is the problem in Florida.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)onethatcares
(16,185 posts)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)It sounds like it's a heavily Republican district. They'll get the type of representation they deserve.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)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.