Henry Cohen, 18, wants to represent young people on the D.C. Council — and has a lot of ideas for shaking up adult politics.
“We have pretty much no voice in government at this current moment,” Cohen says about young people like himself. And he thinks the District would be better off if youths did have a say in how the city is run.
But none of them — nor any other politico in the city — can speak for the city’s youths as well as he can, Cohen contends.He has been interviewing even the youngest of potential constituents, standing outside three of Ward 3′s elementary schools recently to ask students and their parents about the concerns they would like addressed by their council member.
When he campaigns at his school, one student after another names the same top concern, with remarkable consistency: the bathrooms. Cohen says it’s a sign the city isn’t wisely managing its $2 billion education budget, and he believes he could do better. “If we’re seeing all these issues while we’re spending a ton of money — a lot of it doesn’t matter if we don’t have soap in the bathrooms and we don’t have enough room for students,” he said.But his platform extends far beyond student issues.
At 18, Cohen is a newly minted voter but a seasoned veteran of political campaigns. His first political memory was 12 years ago, he said, handing out campaign literature for D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty’s unsuccessful 2010 reelection campaign alongside his father, Brian Cohen, a former advisory neighborhood commissioner and current staffer for Sen. Elizabeth Warren . Henry Cohen was just 6. He remembers putting a Fenty sticker on his head.
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