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By Kathy Antoniotti
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Friday, Sep 05, 2008
It would be understandable if Tabitha Bowen sometimes feels like a fish out of water.
Bowen, 21, spent a year in Panama City loading missiles into F-15s as a member of the U.S. Air Force.
The self-proclaimed conservative is ''extremely pro-life'' and passionate about helping John McCain get elected because she feels he shares her beliefs.
These days, she works as a legal assistant for Summit County Clerk of Courts Daniel Horrigan. The young Republican is undaunted by the fact her boss is a Democrat.
''We aren't allowed to talk about politics,'' she said.
Bowen invited guests to a private ''watch party'' at her Canal Fulton home Thursday to view Arizona Sen.
John McCain accept his party's nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. She posted the invitation last month on her Facebook page on the Internet and said about five young people accepted. She hopes the gathering will spur interest in reaching out to young college-age voters.
''I want to give them a clearer view of the political structure and a better moral basis of what candidates stand for,'' she said.
In Hudson, a small crowd of faithful Summit County Republicans gathered Thursday night for a watch party at Tequila Pancho's Restaurant on Akron-Cleveland Road.
Corrine Hoover Six, 25, a recent University of Akron Law School graduate, and Jon Turney, 23, a member of the Republican Central Committee who is also from Cuyahoga Falls, organized the event.
Turney said the combination of youth and politics is not all that unusual in his party.
''We've had a new infusion of young people in the last year,'' Turney said.
Six agreed with McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.
''I think it was a brilliant choice,'' Six said.
''Corrine is a political junkie. She grew up in a political family,'' said her mother, Cheryl Hoover, a Woodridge Board of Education member. Her father is Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Judge Kim Hoover.
More than 300 watch parties were held across the state Thursday night, said McCain spokesman Paul Lindsay. Most were invitation-only events in private homes.
Former State Board of Education member Deborah Owens Fink, who teaches at the University of Akron, hosted a private, women-only event in her Bath Township home.
Owens Fink said Thursday's party was the kickoff for the Summit County Women for McCain state committee she is heading. About 25 women attended.
''We are thrilled with his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate. We look to her as a great role model for our daughters,'' Owens Fink said.
Meanwhile, Democrats marked the occasion by passing out information in Akron neighborhoods about the McCain-Palin ticket, said John Wagner, executive secretary-treasurer for the Tri-County Regional Labor Council.
Wagner said union members distributed pamphlets accusing McCain of having an anti-worker record and supporting privatization of Social Security and shipping middle-class jobs overseas.
More than 10,000 volunteers were expected to canvass voters nationwide Thursday, Wagner said.
Kathy Antoniotti can be reached at 330-996-3565 or kantoniotti@thebeaconjournal.com.
It would be understandable if Tabitha Bowen sometimes feels like a fish out of water.
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