“I’ve never been an old crusty white guy,” he told ABC News. “I’m different. You know, I came to Congress at 27.”
Schock is the first member of Congress to be born in the 1980s, is an active user of the photo sharing app Instagram and might be one of the only members who ever has — or ever will — appear shirtless on the cover of a men’s fitness magazine, where in 2011 he proudly displayed his toned abs on the cover beside the tagline “Political Muscle! America’s Fittest Congressman!”
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As for what his constituents at home Peoria will think about his new digs, Schock didn’t seem too worried.
“I’m somebody who delivers for my district,” he told ABC. “Regardless of what color you choose for your office, the most important thing as a member of Congress is what you do for your constituents and whether you do your job and I would say that my overwhelming re-election last cycle, despite having dark navy walls, was over 70 percent.”
