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BIOGRAPHY
Born
in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on 15 July 1973 and adopted at three weeks
of age, Wesley Lane Startin is the son of Wesley R. Startin and Diana
L. Startin of Twin Falls, Idaho. After attending private and later
public schools in Twin Falls, Lane received his degree in mass
communication from Idaho State
University in Pocatello in 1996. At Idaho State Lane was an
award-winning journalist and the owner/editor of an independent
campus newspaper.
Not quite 17 years old, during the 1990 session of Idaho Boys State Lane became involved in the re-election campaign of then-governor, former Secretary of the Interior and noted environmentalist Cecil Andrus. The next year as a college freshman Lane became president of the Idaho State University Young Democrats. Beginning in 1993 Lane authored a popular op-ed column in the ISU student newspaper, in which among other things he strongly opposed a Department of Energy proposal to create nuclear waste dump in eastern Idaho similar to Yucca Mountain. In June 1994 Lane was elected to a two-year term as state president of Young Democrats and consequently became the youngest person on the state party executive committee in many years. Lane was asked to run for Idaho Legislature as a Democrat from Twin Falls County that year but ultimately decided against it in favor of finishing his education.
After graduation Lane moved to Chicago and later Philadelphia, where for the first time he experienced the realities of big-city life, its challenges and the important issues it shares with many rural areas, such as lack of economic diversification, substandard educational systems and environmental concerns. In Philadelphia, Lane was an editor for a small publishing house and helped produce titles on a wide variety of subjects, culminating in former Nevada congressional and lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Jessi Winchester's autobiography, From Bordello to Ballot Box, in which he received cover editorial credit.
In the meantime, Lane became disenchanted with the Democratic Party and its ever-increasing tendency to sacrifice polling for principle on both the national and state levels. By 1999 Lane had disassociated himself with the Democrats and actively sought a new political home. Expressing a desire to return to the West and pursue a career in computers, late in 2000 Lane moved to Las Vegas.
Lane recently completed a term as co-chair of the Clark County Green Party and currently serves on its executive committee as an at-large member. He is employed by a Las Vegas-based software firm. His hobbies include domestic and international history and politics, computers, hockey and collecting license plates and flags.
Lane is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He lives in northwest Las Vegas with his fiancée Amber Schneiter and three cats named Loki, Zen and Renton.
Authorized
by the Lane Startin for Congress Committee, Amber J. Schneiter,
Treasurer
P.O. Box 33761
Las Vegas, NV 89133-3761
(702)
324-2370
info@lanestartin.org
www.lanestartin.org
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