Students, hoping for change, file for candidacy in friend?s memory

Their friend Jesse was known for trying anything ? yoga, ballroom dancing, rock climbing ? and he wanted to run for a seat on the Democratic State Central Committee.

But just days after filing for candidacy, 17-year-old Jesse Elkins was killed in a May 12 car crash while driving his buddies home from an Orioles game. The loss of a boyfriend, next-door neighbor, friend and cohort has inspired nine recent high-school students to also run for the committee and continue Jesse?s hope for invigorating the archaic committee.