My nephew is running for city council....
Sep. 23rd, 2013 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osodecanelaNot that I want to twist arms, but if anyone out there wants to support a young progressive running for office, my nephew can use all the financial support he can get.
James and his wife have been active in supporting the LGBT community since they were in college. This is the nephew who came to me after the enactment of prop 8 to say, "Please tell me that you guys got married." (Not "did you?", but "please tell me you did.") He's been very up front about his support of LGBT people and for his support for overturning Ohio's constitutional amendment that bars marriage equality; sadly, it's likely going to cost him votes with Beachwood's large orthodox Jewish community, as well as with the handful of X-ian conservatives there.
James and Carly met at the University of Vermont, where he was the president of the local Democratic club. After graduation he went to law school at Case Western, while she left for the Peace Corp, serving in Namibia for just shy of 3 years. While in school, he interned in DC, first for Sen. Patrick Leahy, then for Sen. Frank Lautenberg.
They've decided to stay and settle in the Cleveland area, where they feel progressive politics actually has a future. He was elected to their county's central Democratic Committee before finishing law school; now, two years out, he's running for city council. Carly is just starting her MSW at Case.
If anyone is so inclined, please go to http://www.jamespasch.org. If you decide you wish to help financially, just follow the link there.
James and his wife have been active in supporting the LGBT community since they were in college. This is the nephew who came to me after the enactment of prop 8 to say, "Please tell me that you guys got married." (Not "did you?", but "please tell me you did.") He's been very up front about his support of LGBT people and for his support for overturning Ohio's constitutional amendment that bars marriage equality; sadly, it's likely going to cost him votes with Beachwood's large orthodox Jewish community, as well as with the handful of X-ian conservatives there.
James and Carly met at the University of Vermont, where he was the president of the local Democratic club. After graduation he went to law school at Case Western, while she left for the Peace Corp, serving in Namibia for just shy of 3 years. While in school, he interned in DC, first for Sen. Patrick Leahy, then for Sen. Frank Lautenberg.
They've decided to stay and settle in the Cleveland area, where they feel progressive politics actually has a future. He was elected to their county's central Democratic Committee before finishing law school; now, two years out, he's running for city council. Carly is just starting her MSW at Case.
If anyone is so inclined, please go to http://www.jamespasch.org. If you decide you wish to help financially, just follow the link there.
