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Washington State University student announces run for Congress
A student of political science and physics at Washington State University will run for Congress next year, pushing the message that anybody can run for office, no matter his or her age.
If Democrat Matthew Sutherland, 24, were to unseat Republican incumbent Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers in Washington's 5th Congressional District, he would be 26 when he takes office.
His campaign revolves around a grassroots-centric movement called the New Blue - an effort to re-organize and re-energize the Democratic party by getting newer and younger people involved in the party, putting them in leadership positions and turning the party's focus to the interests of people rather than elites.
"The New Blue idea is that we're not the Democrats of yesteryear," Sutherland told the Daily News.
Read more: http://dnews.com/local/wsu-student-announces-run-for-congress/article_0b150f1b-dd83-5845-aa49-ba0a509e7b2d.html
(Moscow-Pullman Daily News)
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