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Wed May 12, 2021, 07:00 AM May 2021

Meet Jevin Hodge, The Millennial Democrat Running For Arizona Congress

On Monday, Jevin Hodge recalled a question that the late civil rights leader and former City of Phoenix councilmember Calvin Goode would often ask him: “What more could we be doing?”

It’s a question Hodge says is ingrained in his soul.

“I think about that every day. What more could I be doing to serve our communities?”

They were words Hodge had in mind Monday when he became the first person to announce a bid for Arizona’s 6th Congressional District seat.

In a campaign video posted to Twitter, the 27-year-old Democrat and Tempe native said he was running because Arizonans could no longer wait for leaders in Washington to recognize “the urgent problems we face.”

Read more: https://coppercourier.com/story/meet-jevin-hodge-the-millennial-democrat-running-for-arizona-congress/

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