Sam Young is a thirty-year old web developer from West Glover who is running as an independent for Governor of Vermont. His focus is getting young people involved in the political process, and re-localizing Vermont's food and energy economies.

Here's a great article on his campaign and personality in the Barton Chronicle :
http://www.samyoungforvermont.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view...

And here's a nice video from the opening fund-raising dinner for his campaign, which Rob Williams and I attended on June 23 in West Glover.

An exerpt from the Chronicle article:
Campaign web sites are hardly new to American politics. But Mr. Young argues, with immense
enthusiasm and confidence, that his approach is different. It is not about the candidate passing information down to potential voters.

“I want to make it as participatory as possible,” he says of his site. “My generation is used to this media. They don’t consume it. They interact with it.”

Bravo Sam!