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| David Schweikert back in the day |
David Schweikert might just have stumbled into politics because it was “too hot outside.”
That’s the story that Lois Fitch just told New Times at Schweikert’s campaign headquarters in Scottsdale.
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Fitch, a former American History teacher at Saguaro High School, started the Teenage Republican Club there about 30 years ago.
Schweikert, a junior at the time, was walking a friend to a club meeting.
“He just stayed in the doorway and wouldn’t leave,” Fitch said. “We wanted to start the meeting, so I said, ‘Either come in, or leave.’ It was too hot outside, so he decided to come in. And that was the beginning of his political career.”
Schweikert, a Republican, is running against Congressman Harry Mitchell in Congressional District 5.
