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Weeklong session for teens discusses leadership posts
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Boys State Jefferson County Nationalist Party members stand to vote for their party nominations. Program participants are divided into subgroups referred to as cities and elect mock municipal officials and representatives to the mock state legislature. State officials, such as governor, lieutenant governor, and other state-level officials mirroring their actual state also are elected.
It may be hard to take a roomful of cheering teenage boys seriously, but hundreds from across the state are in Gainesville this week to seriously consider what the future looks like. “I look towards my future and I want to do something in leadership,” said Eduardo Figueroa from Johnson High School. “I want to do something in leadership and politics, so this is right up my alley.”