GOP women seek to recruit young people
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HURON — Engaging young people through education panels and interaction with government officials could be a meaningful way to attract them to the Republican philosophy, the second vice president of the South Dakota Federation of Republican Women said.
“I’ve always had a passion for our youth and the Republican Party,” Penny Sattgast said Monday.
She is proposing what she’s calling a South Dakota Truth for the Youth campaign to the federation, encouraging those in the teen-age and college Republican clubs across the state to attend panel discussions with business owners, veterans, government officials and others.
“Kids like stories,” Sattgast said at the Beadle County Republican Women luncheon. “Why don’t we give them just real world ideas?”
Speakers could educate the young people on how to start and run a business and why South Dakota is a state with low taxes and few regulations, she said.
“And let the kids kind of figure it out on their own, let them ask questions,” she said. “Maybe we’d get more kids to come to these because we’re not just shoving Republican stuff down their throats.
“Kids are smart. They just need exposure to figure out what’s right and wrong for themselves besides what they see online,” Sattgast said.