From Deseret News archives:
Utah Demo, 18, elected delegate to convention
Oh, and he is just 18 years old.
In fact, Jordan Apollo Pazell of Copperton is the third youngest delegate nationally to the convention in Denver next week. He was edged out as the youngest candidate by two 17-year-olds who will turn 18 by Election Day.
So what does he do for fun maybe play sports or music like other teenagers?
"Not really anything like that," he says. "For fun, I'm pretty involved in politics. This is fun for me."
Pazell said his family is not very political, and he doesn't remember when he started liking politics. But it was a long time ago. For example, he ran for the Copperton Town Council at age 16.
"They let me run because I was making a point, but the actual rules say you have to be 18," he said. Pazell said he was running to raise questions about what should be done with the old Bingham High School in Copperton that Kennecott was razing. He would be appointed to a committee that studied possibilities.
But Pazell has not let his youth stop him from being involved in issues both local and national.
As an example of a local issue he fought, he was concerned about how Copperton was split into some new voting districts which forced some elderly residents to drive up to 14 miles to vote. "The voter turnout dropped," he said. "So I worked with the Salt Lake County Clerk's office to see if something could be done."
A solution was worked out to allow all Copperton residents, no matter their voting district, to vote in the community at one location. Pazell was scheduled to report on that success to the Copperton Town Council on Wednesday.
He's worked on bigger, national issues, too. "I worked for Hillary Clinton in Dubuque, Iowa, and Wendover, Nev.," helping in her primary election battles, he said.
In Dubuque, he helped get out supporters to the Iowa caucuses including rounding up multipassenger vans to "transport nuns from a convent so they could participate."
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Apollo,
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