In Wendover, he said the Clinton campaign was short of workers to help in caucuses there. "The people in Wendover really didn't know how to run a caucus, so they turned it over to me and let me run it," he said.

"It was a great time. I have always looked up to Sen. Clinton, and President Clinton," he said. Pazell ran in Utah and was elected as a Clinton delegate to the national convention.

For a while after the Clinton campaign work, he worked at a more traditional student job at Starbuck's. "But I left that to work on the John Rendell campaign," the Democrat facing embattled state Rep. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan.

Pazell said he took the last year off from school, but is looking to attend either the University of Washington or the University of Utah. Meanwhile, he said he has been enjoying politics.

"I've always had a streak of activism. I've always felt you can't complain unless you are active and you make yourself heard and you do what you believe in," he said.

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