Tacoma seems to often be that “also ran,” that “little sister,” that “gritty” individual.

Time for the also ran gritty little sister to band together to pop one of her own into the national limelight!

Actually, Brooke Bennett has done a reasonable job of boosting herself up into the limelight.  Working hard as a fashionista design diva via urbanXchange employment, she’s achieved a place in a Teen Vogue competition among two other stylist wanna-be gals, one of whom is beating her in votes (gasp!) though Brooke was in the lead only a couple of days ago.

We can’t let that happen.

Get your teenaged daughters, friends, nieces, and alter-egos to vote for Miss Brooke, and give that girl a place in the stylist spotlight: winner gets to go to New York to style a band for a photo shoot, and gain some valuable experience for future fashionista-ness.

Just go to www.teenvoguepromo.com. When you get to the page there is a slide show of the current promotions. When you get to "style that rocks" (the third one), then click on it, at which point you’ll be asked for your birth date which will take you to the page to vote. Click on Brooke, then look at the tabulated response, then get all the people you know to do the same! â€" Jessica Corey-Butler