When this congresswoman knocked on doors, people thought she was a Girl Scout
When Democrat Abby Finkenauer decided to challenge two-term Republican Rep. Rod Blum in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, she didn’t do it on a whim. Unlike her fellow freshman millennial congresswomen, Finkenauer had been laying the groundwork for her House run — perhaps consciously, perhaps not — since she was in middle school. At 16, she worked in Washington as a congressional page. At 24, she was elected to the Iowa state House. And at 29, she was elected to the U.S.
I wouldn’t say it was ever, “I want to do politics.” But I knew at a very young age that the world was big and there was a lot going on. I knew it was important to be paying attention. My favorite thing in elementary school was getting the Weekly Reader — and then, at age 10, I asked my parents for a subscription to Newsweek, which I considered the “adult” version.I was Al Gore against two George Bushes … because no one would go up against me by themselves.
I wanted to make sure we continued to do everything we could to make Iowa a place that people didn’t have to leave and a place people could come home to.When I’d go out knocking on doors, I think some people thought I was selling Girl Scout cookies. So sometimes [my age] helped because they would actually open the door.
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