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

other issues that concern us

here are three that are of critical importance, I think, for preservation of the representative democracy we may be in danger of losing.

1) the restoration of the election process, because if we don't preserve that, then we have no peaceful way to ever throw the bums out. election reform includes absolutely transparent voting which values precinct workers over "convenience" machines. it also includes legislation to remove the ability of big money to buy elections and political influence.

2) the restoration of constitutional rights of citizenship (privacy, habeus corpus, etc) which have been under assault from both government and corporate business for some time.

3) the restoration of the primary role of informed, interested, and involved citizen in our system. If the end result of our system of education is to turn out a citizenry which does not accept responsibility for its ownership of this government, then that system of education is a liability and must be changed.

kh

Posted by kh at 9:57 PM

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