By Jim Stanford on May 29, 2012
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Claire Fuller receives a hug from her father, Robbie, on Election Night 2008, when she narrowly lost in her first bid for Teton County commissioner.
With little more than three days remaining in the filing period to run for local office, there’s no telling what sort of new candidates will emerge to shake things up.
Claire Fuller has set out to change the status quo with a second run for Teton County commissioner. In 2008, at only age 24, Claire came within a few hundred votes of unseating political veterans Andy Schwartz and Leland Christensen.
Now 28 and more seasoned with education and work experience, the Wilson Democrat is back in the ring. The timing feels right, she said, and her desire to serve hasn’t cooled.
“I want to provide a new sense of leadership in the community,” she said.
If she didn’t run now, it might be years before she’d have another chance, she explained. “I’m at the beginning of a career of any sort,” she said. “The farther you get into that, the harder it is to leave.”
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