One of our favorite youngest candidate's this year is Dodge Landesman. He is 18 and running for City Council in the Big Apple! He just got some great press for The Gothamist, which is one of the biggest NYC blogs around & The New Yorker Magazine, which is the most prestigous magazine in all of NYC! They wrote a cool piece on him and did and on-camera interview w/ him! Congrats Dodge! Keep up the awesome campaign! --jp
Here's the first paragraph & Headline of the GOTHAMIST article...
Video: Well-Connected Teen's City Council Campaign
"Memo to Rosie Mendez: Why even bother running for reelection when you've got such a cherubic challenger gunning for your City Council seat? It's all over but the crying for Manhattan's District 2; 18-year-old preppy Dodge Landesman's victory in November is all but assured—why just look at those adorable cheeks! His father happens to be Obama's NEA nominee Rocco Landesman, who draws a lot of water in this town as president of Jujamcyn Theatres, and a recent fundraiser for the teen's campaign was recently attended by Julianne Moore."
Below is a link the entire article and the video clip of Dodge:
http://gothamist.com/2009/05/18/video_well-connected_teen_explains.php
Here is the link to the New Yorker Magazine Story about Dodge:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2009/05/social-studies-dodge-landesman-video.html
Here is a link to Dodge's Website...
http://www.dodgeforcitycouncil.org/
Here is a link to Dogde's Facebook Group...
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=35970955534