Welcome to the Vashon Youth Delegates Blog

Welcome everyone,

This is a blog for anyone interested in following, helping with, leaning about, or really in any way being a part of Nick Bordner and Laura Hicks' campaign to be elected as Delegates to the Democratic National Convention for Barack Obama.  

We are two youths, 17 (Nick) and 18 (Laura) years old, from Vashon Island who feel that it is a shame that more youth do not care about or have any interest in playing a role in the politics, specifically this election, that will shape the world that we will inherit, grow up in, raise families in, and live in.

We are both very excited by Barack Obama and the young, fresh, optimistic approach to politics that he takes.  We need a change from the stagnating, corrupt politics that have plagued Washington D.C. recently.  We feel that he can truly revitalize and change politics in a way that no other candidate can.  Senator McCain will simply continue the failed policies of the current administration, and Senator Clinton is too polarizing to unite the nation in the name of progress the way that Obama will be able to.  

We both got involved at the local level, starting out as delegates at the precinct level.  From there, we campaigned at the Legislative District Caucus, and had tremendous success.  Nick received the highest number of votes in the preliminary voting of all delegates present, and Laura received the second highest number amongst all female delegates.  From there, in the final round of voting, Laura and Nick both received the second highest total of votes for their respective genders.

In addition to our personal goal of being able to represent Vashon Island and the State of Washington at the DNC, we hope to, through our involvement, encourage others to get aware and involved of the democratic process, so that they may have a say in shaping the world that they are a part of.

If anyone would like more information, has questions for us, has comments about the blog or our campaign, etc. please do not hesitate to contact us:

Nick Bordner: nickbordner@gmail.com
Laura Hicks:  fuzzyhugs@gmail.com

Thanks for your time and interest!

Peace,
Nick Bordner and Laura Hicks

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Greetings and welcome to the party!

Hey everyone,
Its nice to have a blog up and running, thanks Nick, so that we can all converse and get together in one place to share ideas, dates/times, etc. and keep up to date on everything.
We are a part of this political process to represent you so we want to know what issues you are most concerned with. Be it anything from the War in Iraq and global warming, to immigration and the economy, feel free to post or comment and discuss those issues with us. We plan on taking our involvement in this election to November and beyond, and we hope you will stay involved too. "The most important political office is that of private citizen." - Justice Louis Brandeis.
We are currently looking for people who want to help us get elected to the Democratic National Convention. At the Congressional District Caucuses on May 17 we will have that opportunity and would love for you to join us, in handing out flyers, carrying signs, talking to people, and doing other things we might come up with along the way. Would you be interested in joining our posse? We're both really serious about making this happen and of course we need as much help as we can get, so it would be lovely you have you on board.
Thanks for visiting, drop by anytime!
~Laura

Posted by Laura at 6:03 PM

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