Young candidates in Pittsburgh are sick of 'waiting their turn' [View all]
There is a common criticism of young politicians like U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Ilhan Omar: “wait your turn.” It implies candidates must gather a certain level of experience and the go-ahead from older authority figures before seeking office. More and more, that sentiment is being rejected across the county, and in Pittsburgh.
Ashley Priore is part of a new wave of young candidates who ignore that conventional wisdom. In fact, she's wanted to get into politics since she was a young child and says she's waited long enough.
Priore is 19 years old and running for a seat on the Pittsburgh Public School Board (PPS). And she is not alone. Priore is joining hundreds of other young people across the country vying for elected positions on the local, state, and national levels.
The 2018 midterm season saw an enormous spike in millennials (ages 23-39) running for, and eventually elected to, political office. Nearly 700 millennials ran as Democrats for about 6,000 state legislature positions across the country during the 2018 midterms, according to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.
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