Posted on 07/11/2022 1:03:34 PM PDT by ChipMarne
An incoming freshman at Carroll College is focused on more than just her first semester this summer – she’s also working to get elected in November.
Kaitlyn Ruch is running for House District 84 in Montana while preparing to start school in the fall semester at the Catholic college in Helena. Ruch defeated two other Republicans in the primary.
She recently spoke to The College Fix about her campaign and what inspired her to run for office. She is running in a district that has voted Democrat for the past several election cycles.
“My parents always taught me that if I saw a problem, I could sit around and complain about it, or take a stand and do something about it,” she told The Fix via email on July 6. “I decided to run for State Representative because I have continually seen problems in our state that are not being fixed, and some elected Representatives who don’t truly don’t do the job of representing the people that they are elected to represent.”
A key issue for Ruch, a Catholic and adoptee, is ending abortion. The 18-year-old is also active with Students for Life Action, the political advocacy branch of Students for Life of America. Ruch served as the president of Helena Students for Life and as the state captain for SFL Action.
“I am opposed to abortion because every single abortion ends an innocent human life. At the moment of conception, a new human life is created,” she stated in her email. “This is an undeniable, biological fact. A new human person with a completely unique set of DNA that has never existed before, and will never exist again.”
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Anti-abortion Rat airhead gonna conquer Montana. LOL.
The ignorance of youth.
More than likely she is a follower of the retarded Swedish teenager that regularly skipped school and economic genius, Joe Biden.
How did you get that out of the article? She seems like a pro-lifer who wants to flip a Democrat seat.
Personally, I applaud her effort.
And you sir flourish your brazen cynicism as though it were a virtue.
She is running as a Pub, and up against a term-limited State Senator on the Dem side. I wouldn’t count her out, especially as I’m guessing that a state house district involves only about 11000 people (perhaps 7000 registered voters) which means that a connected college student could probably do a great deal of door-to-door work.
Another thing in her favour is that about 60% of the primary votes were on the Republican side.
This lady is a Republican and is anti-abortion. Why are you calling her a Democrat and a follower of Joe Biden?
Big kudos to her.
Sorry, I read poorly. Blood pressure is crashing. Time to stop posting until BP returns to normal.
I think the most touching way to explain abortion was something like...when you were a teen, though you look different you were still you. When you were a toddler and looked nothing like you do now, you were still you. The day you were born you were you, and months earlier when you were in your mothers womb, you were you.
Indicting a young person simply for their age is akin to calling Boomers out-of-touch, fat old fogeys.
I think those two are just following Freeper tradition. Once you’ve been here for 10+ years, you need only glance at the headline before making comments.
I often follow that tradition myself!
I agree with her principles, but I wish she would go out and accomplish something in life before she entered politics. She’s headed down the path of “professional politician”, we have enough of those.
You really called that one. Perfect Boomer description.
Wait. Boomers aren’t out-of-touch, fat old fogeys? Now, I’m really confused.
Did you bother to read it?
Too bad a lot of FReepers seem never to have been taught this lesson by their own parents.
It’s a time-honored tradition! :)
Indeed
1) She has guts, and is running on a broad-based conservative platform. I applaud this. We have a similar young lady as a State Delegate in West Virginia.
2) I hope she plans to do some sort of work other than politics ... we have had entirely too much of professional politicians who make a career of elective office without ever holding an honest job. F. Joe Biden Mitch “Turtleface” McConnell exemplify this problem.
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