High School Senior, 17, in Ohio Statehouse Race
He may be too young to vote, but 17-year-old Derrick Seaver is the sole Democrat running for a vacant Ohio legislative seat, the Dayton Daily News reported Tuesday.
Three Republicans, all in their 30s, have announced plans to seek their party’s nomination to represent the predominantly Republican west-central Ohio district.
Seaver, a senior at Minster High School who turns the requisite age of 18 on Feb. 6, said: “I know my opponents will talk about what they’ve done in the past and what I haven’t, but I feel this is about the future,” Seaver told the newspaper.
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