Published November 2, 2005
Campus campaign
Democratic running for U.S. House seat tells high school students about the power of voting.
By Michael Miller, Daily Pilot
Congressional candidate Steve Young may have gotten an invitation to speak at Newport Harbor High School on Tuesday morning, but he came on campus with a mission of his own.
"People ask me why I talk to high schoolers," the Democrat told bystanders as a dozen students filed behind him into the Ralph K. Reed Gymnasium. "We have such a low voter turnout among adults that we need a quantum shift in our emphasis. We need to reach out to young voters and tell them that voting is power."
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His ultimate message was twofold: America needs your help, and the ballot box is your weapon. The presentation, which also included a question-and-answer session with the audience, was the latest project of Newport Harbor's Student Political Action Committee. With the Dec. 6 special election just over a month away, the club invited both Young and his Republican rival, Sen. John Campbell, to speak to students. By Tuesday, club leaders said they had not heard from Campbell, but they managed to snare Young as their first guest speaker of the year.
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Young began his informal speech by getting straight to his first point, with barely an introduction. In the opening minute, he encouraged the young women in the audience to become politically active, arguing that women are still a marginalized group in most American legislatures... Most of Young's discussion centered around preventing the outsourcing of American jobs, a key point in his campaign. Two solutions, he said, were to enact legislation to discourage companies from shipping jobs overseas, and to graduate more students into engineering jobs, a field China is dominating.
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