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A Younger Focus For A Brighter Future: The Illinois Future Caucus

May 2, 2016

Illinois Future Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Will Guzzardi recently spoke with Rick Pearson at WGN Radio in Chicago, giving an insider perspective on how members of the Illinois House of Representatives united to form the caucus through MAP’s support.  Representative Guzzardi highlighted legislative opportunities that affect young people and are championed by Future Caucus members in the state, and spoke more broadly about millennial political perspectives following the primary elections.

Illinois Future Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Will Guzzardi recently spoke with Rick Pearson at WGN Radio in Chicago, giving an insider perspective on how members of the Illinois House of Representatives united to form the caucus through MAP’s support.  Representative Guzzardi highlighted legislative opportunities that affect young people and are championed by Future Caucus members in the state, and spoke more broadly about millennial political perspectives following the primary elections.

As the Future Caucus, we have a responsibility not just to pass laws that make it easier for young people but also to show some leadership of young people in the halls of power. To set an example for young people to say that we can step up, and run for office, and be in positions of leadership…Our generation is ready to do politics in a different and better way. We’re ready to set aside the old partisan bickering and the political quagmires and work together and build compromise and build consensus – that’s what our generation is about.

— Representative Will Guzzardi, May 1st, 2016, on WGN Radio

Read more, and listen to the conversation, over at WGN’s website:

A Younger Focus For A Brighter Future: The Illinois Future Caucus

Rick speaks to State Representative Will Guzzardi, (D-Chicago) about his part of the recently formed bipartisan Future Caucus which is focusing on legislation affecting the younger generation. They talk about the caucus’ agenda and more. [audio http://serve.castfire.

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