Effectively Engaging Young Voters - 2 Mutual Interviews with Leaders of the Bus Federation

Here are two brilliant guys. On the heels of my post about how the Spiritual Progressives are failing to get young people involved, I got two interviews with guys who are masters at that game.

Jefferson Smith founded the Oregon-based Bus Project. Now he's running for the Oregon House of Representatives. He's guaranteed a seat because he won the Democratic Primary and the Republican Primary - he got more GOP write in votes than any of the real candidates got actual votes!

This interview ended up in two pieces, so here's part two (skip it if you're sick of me because it's just my final answer):

And here's Matt Singer of Forward Montana. If you've seen any tv coverage of the costumed monsters at the convention, he's one of the guys behind it all:

Check out these sites to learn about The Bus Federation, Trick-Or-Vote, and Traction!

P.S. I'm not so sorry that Traction keeps coming up in my interviews. I do want everyone in NC to know about it. But I am sorry that I botched my answer to Matt's question about Traction. Many, many apologies to Lanya Shapiro and my fellow Tractivists.

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Brilliant. Great interview, Graig.

J

PS You're giving Traction a huge boost ... thanks for doing that.

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Blue South's picture

Fascinating

Great interviews. Great Job Graig

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