A passion for getting out the vote
Out of jail and into politics, activist makes it his mission to get young people to the polls
By Nicole Fuller
Sun Reporter
Originally published April 21, 2006 
Hassan Allen-Giordano isn’t one of those political types in a three-piece suit, with a fancy degree, plotting strategies on a BlackBerry.
He’s the guy who is up at 6 a.m., in a white polo scarfing down waffles, convincing students that politics might save their lives – as it did for him.
A while back, the 30-year-old political activist wasn’t worrying himself about how many young people he could get to the polls on Election Day.
In 2001, he had served two stints in jail for dealing drugs. He had been kicked out of high school. And the Park Heights native couldn’t vote.
“When I came home from jail … the only things I could tell you about politics is that one of the parties was a donkey and the other was an elephant,” he says. “I couldn’t even tell you what the mayor was. And I could never imagine in my wildest dreams working in politics. But now I can’t imagine not. Go figure.”
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