In 2000, the Daily Press in Virginia printed a story referencing a campaign stop by President Bush to Inchelium. We reached out to Abell, who graduated from IHS in the late 90s, to see if it were true. He said Bush came to Colville, not Inchelium, as referenced in the following story.
Young people often not young voters
Hopelessness keeps kids away from the poll
The political participation of 20-year-olds Hunter Abell and Angela Angel started before they could drive, let alone vote.
For Abell, it was 1992 when President Bush visited Abell's hometown of Inchelium, Wash.
As Bush shook hands with crowd members, he noticed Abell wearing a Navy hat.
"Hey, Navy" Bush yelled, possibly recalling his fighter-pilot days.
"Go Navy."
Abell replied, "Hey, George, I don't like broccoli either."
Abell enjoys the political process ,too. And, yes, he really did call the president of the United States by his first name. But, Abell said, that's because Bush picked him out of a crowd of well-wishers and he felt for the first time that politicians were real people behind the television personas.
He began volunteering with political campaigns and thinking about how the decisions of politicians affect the lives of all Americans.
Abell is now a junior at the college of William and Mary and chairman of the school's College Republicans.
Angela Angel also began campaigning at 12. Her Catholic school teacher told her class a story about how bad abortion was an Angel wrote a letter that said as much to her state representative. A couple of years later she realized she didn't agree with her former stance at all. She believed a woman had a right to choose whether or not she would have a baby.
Once again, she made her views known when students from her Catholic school were going to be excused to attend an anti-abortion rally.
She asked her teacher why she couldn't have equal time off to attend
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