Friday, December 7, 2012

21-year-old is nation's youngest gay state lawmaker

Maine State Rep. Justin Chenette, just 21 years old, caught the political bug in high school when he began hosting his own local cable show about politics, drawing candidates who had to answer the upstart journalist's tough questions. Now Chenette will be the one answering reporters' questions as one of the newest state lawmakers in Maine, and the youngest.