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Most Saturday mornings in Bremen, Ind., the regulars gather at Zentz's Barber Shop on Plymouth St. to talk politics. "There's a lot of pretty important decisions that are made in the barber shop," says proprietor John Zentz, chairman of Marshall County's Republican Party. The decisions aren't always earth-shaking, but we get some things done without making a fuss. "Barbering ($4 a cut) doesn't interfere. "Oh, my customers are extremely tolerant," Zentz explains. "I just keep on working and I guess they trust...
...blond, healthy looking sons of Bremen you might bump into on Plymouth St. Tracy Elliott has got to be one of the most remarkable: an influential campaign manager in Zentz's organization by age 18, a former student leader and track star at Bremen High and the school's first graduate to attend Harvard Four years in Cambridge have not diminished Elliott's interest in Indiana politics nor improved his opinion of "limousine liberals" and "intellectual me tooism" But he admits to changing. He no longer calls himself conservative" and expresses sincere interest in some of the "big campus causes...
Politics seemed to come naturally from the start. "He understood how to evaluate people, how to get them to work, even as a very young man," says Zentz. Elliott, modest about his achievements but joyful in their retelling, credits his "many teachers," including his father. Duwaine, a successful businessman and former town board president...
...just try to stay in touch with people, that's all," he explains, Says Zentz: "I'd hate to pay his college phone bill." Elliott directed the rookie state assembly campaign of Bremenite Greg Mishler the summer after freshman year and continued to manage the operation from Cambridge through the fall Long-distance leadership never posed a major problem for the precocious strategist: "Everyone knew just what they had to do every day until the polls closed because I had mapped it all out beforehand--advertising, canvassing, appearances, the works...
What's on his mind now, is getting back home, "seeing folks and catching up, like I usually do." He expects to drop in on John Zentz's Barber Shop the first chance he gets--"talk politics with John and the old fellas there on Saturday. John'll be clipping away and talking like he always does...