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*HERALD-REPUBLIC SPOTLIGHTS TEENAGE VOLUNTEER'S
PHONE BANK  WORK AT COORDINATED  CAMPAIGN  HQ *

    Here's hoping you didn't throw away the Tuesday (Jan. 30, 2007) 
issue of the Yakima Herald-Republic, because the Yakima Democratic 
campaign process got a spotlighted writeup on Page 6C, the Unleashed 
Section.
    The author is Sky Stephenson, granddaughter of Mary Stephenson, the 
state committee woman for YCDCC.
    Sky, who attends Christa McAuliffe Academy, described her work as a 
phone-banker at the coordinated campaign headquarters managed by Carlos 
Lugo.
    She wrote in part, "Here were men and women who'd been voting for 20 
years or more and yet every election managed to have an extraordinary 
amount of vim and vigor for the process.
    "These were people who made it their job to educate themselves about 
what was happening in the world, how it affected their lives, and how 
politics played a role in them.
    "In a subtle way, they made me come to realize that, even though I 
couldn't legally vote yet, there was still a place for me in politics.I 
may not have been able to fill in those bubbles on the ballot, but I was 
beginning to enlighten myself on who, what, where, why and how my vote 
would eventually work and count in this country..."pg