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My first job: Burke played politics early

Airport council CEO once spent his time rounding up the youth vote Burke Remember the Reagan Democrats? Kevin Burke's first job out of college was to find them and recruit them. The longtime association executive, currently CEO of the $13 million-revenue Airports Council International-North America, was director of ethnic outreach for a unit of the Republican National Committee in 1979, and later in the 1980 Reagan campaign. He had interned for the RNC his last year in college at the State University of New York at Brockport. "My job was to get the youth vote," Burke said. His territory stretched from New England through the Rust Belt and out to California—anywhere… Read More