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Markus Batchelor
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    Looking for Ward 8, Washington DC residents to help me win an election for Democratic State Committeeman this Saturday! Who's down!?

    53 weeks ago

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    Just got an IPad today and I'm pretty mesmerized. What do you think? Is IPad just hype?

    53 weeks ago

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    Residents of the District of Columbia deserve the same political rights as every other American, including votes in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. I propose Statehood.

    53 weeks ago

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About Me

Markus Batchelor is a 18-year-old social activist and political commentator. He is currently a candidate for Democratic State Committeeman in Ward 8. He is also the founder and District of Columbia Co-Chair of YouthPAC, a DC-based Political Action Committee striving to give young people a voice in government and getting them involved in the political process. He currently serves as the Chairman of the District of Columbia Youth City Council under the Mayor's Youth Leadership Institute. Before that, from 2009 to 2010, he served as the District of Columbia's 52nd Youth Mayor, where he worked towards getting young people involved in civics, committed to community service and community activism. He is a life-long Congress Heights resident in Ward 8, Washington, D.C., where he is an avid member of the Ward 8 Democrats and is beginning to become involved in the neighborhood's community association and his Advisory Neighborhood Commission. He is a blogger on his own blogsite, The Batch' Blog, at www.batchblogdc.blogspot.com

Work History

  • Mayor's Youth Leadership Institute
  • Chairman, Youth City Council
  • November 2010 to Present
  • YouthPAC
  • Founder/ Chair
  • January 2011 to Present
  • Mayor's Youth Leadership Institute
  • Youth Mayor
  • August 2009 to November 2010
  • Nate Bennett-Fleming for Shadow Representative (DC)
  • Deputy Campaign Manager
  • March 2010 to September 2010

Education

  • Thurgood Marshall Academy PCHS
  • 2007 - 2011
  • The George Washington University
  • Political Science
  • 2011 -
Interests
Politics, Elections, Public Service, United States History, Current Events
Goals
  1. Attain Elected Office
  2. Work as a political commentator/ strategist
Favorite Quote
"Regarding their political rights, residents of the nation's capital are not really citizens but practically aliens in their own country." - Frederick Douglass
Specialties
Public Speaking, Social Networking, Community Organizing

Groups (9)

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Fans (10)

LaTrice Clayburn
Aris
Dream Jackson
Salihah Rowser
Raymond Waugh II
Danielle Blake
Ryan Paugh
Marcellus Sanders
Bria Greenwood
Felicia Royal

Following (8)

Jason H. Parker
Ryan Paugh
Bria Greenwood
Aris
Dream Jackson
LaTrice Clayburn
Jereme Speight
Ty Unglebower