For anyone who wants to
experience a bigger city but maybe cannot handle NY or DC, Denver is
the place to come! Denver has been filled with many great
opportunities. Last Monday, I got the chance to shadow Faith Winter
who is currently running for a seat in the House of Representatives.
Over the course of the semester I will be helping with her campaign
and getting an inside look as to what comprises a campaign. On
Monday, we started out by going to a luncheon in honor of Wendy
Davis, a current Senator for Texas. Davis has become a rock-star in
the political world. Winter introduced Davis and following several
speeches, Winter took me around and introduced me to various up and
coming new women in politics.
After the luncheon, I went
back to Winter’s house and I got to work directly on her campaign.
She writes thank-yous to everyone who personally donates to her
campaign. After seeing the more glamorous side of politics by meeting
Davis I was also able to see the not so glamorous side of writing
many, many thank-yous. It has to be done though to make for a good
campaign so it was nice to see the different sides. Next we went to
the city council meeting for Westminster, in which Winter is
currently a member. The meeting was considered a study session where
ideas were being discussed to see where the council should go next.
The meeting was very long but interesting because I hadn’t known
much about what city councils do. They discussed many
issues/projects such as whether or not cell phones should be
permitted in the courtroom to the new rail-station that will be built
in Westminster.
By getting the chance to
shadow someone like Faith Winter, it allowed me to broaden my
experience here in Denver as well as broaden my knowledge base. I am
interested in pursuing a career in science and health care and
therefore never really knew much about politics and what it really
takes to be a woman in politics. After having only one day with
Winter in the political world, I can now say that I want to know
more. Without the time spent working on a campaign such as this one I
may have never become interested in politics.
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