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Veteran GOP Strategist Paul Young Named Senior Adviser to Lindsey Graham
Portsmouth-based Republican will oversee NH as part of national role
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has begun building a New Hampshire team as he moves toward a presidential run. WMUR.com has learned that Paul Young, a Portsmouth-based veteran operative with more than 30 years of experience in political, government and private sector strategy, has become a national senior adviser to Graham’s pre-campaign Security Through Strength political action committee. Should Graham choose to run, Young will head Graham’s New Hampshire campaign as part of his national role….
“We can pretend that the United States doesn’t have a leadership role in the world, as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do, but Lindsey feels the country should have a strong leadership role,” Young said. “Secondly, he recognizes that domestically for our economy and the average person on the street, we are running into a time bomb, which is the fact that the Baby Boomers are retiring, and we need entitlement reform. Discussion about cutting government and taxes is almost irrelevant without entitlement reform,” Young said. Read more…