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Tue Jan 17, 2017, 07:28 PM Jan 2017

Howard Dean urges millennials to bring skills, voices into political arena

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean urged millennials to use their digital skills to help ensure the continued existence of governmental bureaucracies.

He also shared some dramatic observations about the press and the Trump effect.

Dean, the longest serving governor of the state of Vermont, a former presidential candidate and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, spoke at Williams College in the packed Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall Thursday evening as part of his visit with the Leadership Studies program.

Dean said that as an enthusiastic Clinton supporter, he was a shocked as anyone by the results. In hindsight though, he said that President-elect Donald Trump was elected by “a lot of people who have been left behind.”

Read more: https://vtdigger.org/2017/01/14/howard-dean-urges-millennials-bring-skills-voices-political-arena/

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