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Ex-OSU quarterback talks to local Young Republicans
By Dan Clutter ? Telegraph-Forum ? July 3, 2009


Former Ohio State quarterback Stanley Jackson addresses the newly formed Harding Area Young Republicans on Thursday at Baker's Sports Shack in Bucyrus. "Let's get off the bench, let's get involved and let's get in the game," Jackson told those in attendance. (T-F photo by Rob Hardin)

BUCYRUS -- For Stanley Jackson, growing up in Patterson, N.J., meant one thing: You voted Democrat.

"If you know anything about New Jersey, you know that it is a Democratic state," Jackson said.

"My dad voted Democrat. If you asked him who he was voting for in the election, he would respond 'whose the Democrat running?' "

But Jackson, who had an African-American father and a Hispanic mother, grew more conservative as he got older.

"I realized that I grew up with conservative values," Jackson said. "When I tell people now that I'm a Republican, they usually fall down."

The former Ohio State quarterback spoke Thursday night at the second monthly meeting of the newly-formed Harding Area Young Republicans at Baker's Pizza and Sport Shack.

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