A kid named Nick Troiano is running to represent Pennsylvania's 10th District. And by kid, I mean kid; he looks to be about 30, but he's been inordinately successful - especially when compared to his peer group.
Nick Troiano started a small business, ran a nonprofit group, and was named "Future Leader of Pike County" in Pennsylvania before turning 25.
That latter may not sound like much, but it nonetheless may prove prophetic; unlikely as it may seem, this kid's got an agenda that any TEA party activist or general fiscal conservative can feel at home with:
Troiano is cofounder of The Can Kicks Back, a nonpartisan campaign that advocates for U.S. debt reduction. His supporters include deficit hawks Erskine Bowles, a Democrat, and Alan Simpson, a Republican, as well as Russ Verney, who advised the presidential campaign of independent Ross Perot.
He's got some pretty high-powered support for a kid his age. His problem is that he's running against entrenched Republican Tom Marino, who one reelection two years ago by a nearly two to one margin. Still, polling among 10th District constituents found that 60% agree that to break the congressional logjams, more independents need to be elected. Given the documented intransigence of the Republican establishment (and the general tyranny of the Democratics), those 60% are exactly right. The other 40% are too busy listening to country music to be bothered with other stuff. Not that there's anything wrong with that, either:
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
