Pro-Pot, Pro-Gay, Anti-NSA… and Running for Senate

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Meet Shenna Bellows, Maine’s former ACLU chief who’s looking to unseat Susan Collins with a mix of left and right issues that might appeal to millennials.
The baby boomers had John F. Kennedy—young, charismatic, and TV ready.

Forty years later, Barack Obama was supposed to herald in a new generation, one globalized and beyond the narrow box-checking racial and ethnic categories, and, as he put it, beyond the cultural-war campus debates from the ’60s.

Now those hashtag lovin’, meme generatin’, self-obsessin’ millennials may have found a political candidate of their own.

Shenna Bellows is 39. “I just look 18,” she says. She spent the last eight years as executive director of the Maine Civil Liberties Union, and, prior to that, ran up a résumé familiar to many community-minded millennials: Middlebury College, Peace Corps in Panama, Vista Corps in a housing project in Nashville.

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