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Article: BRAT PACK TARGETS COUNCIL SEATS NEW GENERATION SEEKS A VOICE IN CITY GOVERNMENT.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- August 25, 1997
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A lanky 32-year-old recently faced the endorsement committee of the Apartment Owners Association.
Isn't he a little young, the landlords asked, to be running for the Seattle City Council?
Thomas Goldstein had a ready answer: The apartment group's own president, Wes Uhlman, was just 34 when Seattleites elected him mayor.
``He'd done his homework,'' Uhlman said later. ``We were impressed.''
The bushy-topped Goldstein, moreover, is not even the youngest sprout in a bumper crop of five 35-and-under candidates who are waging serious campaigns for the council.
They are no clones, but the five members of this Brat Pack all happen ...