Above is a towering photo of Los Angeles City Hall. It is the focal point for SoCal’s efforts to push for lowering the voting age. However, L.A. isn’t the only SoCal city to see some “lower-the-voting-age” action, as you’ll read shortly. If you tuned in to last month’s post, you might have noticed that itContinue reading “SoCal Efforts Heat Up on Lowering the Voting Age”
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In The Heart of The Golden State
A Gold Rush stagecoach re-enactment going on in the Historic District of Sacramento detailing the events of nearly 180 years ago. Sacramento may be about to strike gold as its city Youth Commissioners, some residents & allies of the vote 16 movement are interested in starting an effort there. With the efforts growing around Vote16CAContinue reading “In The Heart of The Golden State”
Game Time
The Winter Olympics will be getting started in a few weeks in Italy, but the efforts to lower the voting age to 16 is just heating up. This past week, I had the pleasure of delivering public comment’s to Los Angeles’ Charter Reform Commission, who is looking at rewriting the city’s charter laws, including whetherContinue reading “Game Time”
Gearing Up for Vote16 Efforts in 2026 for California
A group of people sporting an “I Voted” sticker. If we can get more cities in the Golden State to lower the voting age, we’re going to have a few more people being able to show of their sticker. I just came off the last Vote16 virtual call of the year. Let’s just say meContinue reading “Gearing Up for Vote16 Efforts in 2026 for California”
The End of An Era; The Continuation of Another
A photo of Speaker Nancy Pelosi standing up to Donald Trump in 2019. We need more Nancy Pelosi to do this. Not just lowering the voting age to 16, but other things too. (Photo courtesy of the Guardian) On January 6th, former Speaker of the House & congressional representative of District 11, Nancy Pelosi, announcedContinue reading “The End of An Era; The Continuation of Another”
Going Back to 2015- In Indianapolis!
I brought my sign back to Indianapolis 10 years later! Here’s the sign without me on the photo!
Ten Years In The Making: Vote16CA!
The photo above is from a news station interview I did in August, 2015 in Grand Junction, in western Colorado, where I was a little more than two-thirds of the way back home after starting my walk 2 1/2 months before that on a warm day in May in the heart of New York City.Continue reading “Ten Years In The Making: Vote16CA!”
We Came, We Saw, We Conquered & We Connected!
This is a view of the Morrison Room at the University of California Los Angeles, located at the Faculty Club on campus. This room saw the rebirth of the national, and possible a few state coalitions, movement to lower the voting age to 16. Earlier this month, I had the honor to attend a two-dayContinue reading “We Came, We Saw, We Conquered & We Connected!”
The First National Convening
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs will be hosting the first ever national convening of supporters who have been working to lower the voting age locally & nationally next month. For the first time ever, a national meet up of supporters who have been working to lower the national voting age to 16 will beContinue reading “The First National Convening”
We Still Need Paul Revere…s Of Today: Part II
I am currently traveling to the Frontiers of Democracy Conference, where I’ll be presenting later this week. Actually twice on both days of the conference, but the first day is the most relevant to this blog.
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