.PaigeKreisman, a 24-year-old veteran, is running for Oregon's State House of Representative, and she's prioritizing climate justice: 'The ClimateCrisis is the biggest because no other issue matters if we don't have a planet to live on'
As a kid, Paige Kreisman never imagined that she would one day run for office. “I could barely imagine myself surviving to adulthood,” she says.
pensions for nurses and teachers that got them elected, and that's unacceptable. That's when we decided we needed to get involved in this race.We got together with different organizations and community leaders who all agreed that we needed to run in this race, and we each put forward a couple of candidates. We had four potential candidates, in total, and the four of us got together in a room and we just decided who the strongest candidate would be.
MTV News: You used your GI bill to attend Oregon State University. How would your life have been different if you didn't have that support?I definitely wouldn't have been able to go to college without that. And it probably wouldn't have been worth it, either, because the only way I would've been able to go without that would have just meant getting thousands and thousands of dollars in student debt.
MTV News: How does your experience growing up in Gaston County and then serving in the military inform the work you do now?My parents were open white nationalists and my stepdad was in the KKK, which was still active in Gaston County, North Carolina, when I grew up there. It really exposed me to how evil those ideologies were from a really young age.
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