11-11-2005, 02:27 PM
|  | Didn't Know You Could | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Texas Age: 19
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| | | High Schooler Beats Incumbent in Mayor's Race
Teen Holds Two-Vote Lead in Mich. Race
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...1100493_pf.html[/url]
The Associated Press
Friday, November 11, 2005; 7:32 AM
HILLSDALE, Mich. -- An 18-year-old high school student held on to a two-vote lead to become mayor of this southern Michigan town.
County Clerk Thomas C. Mohr on Thursday announced the official tally: Michael Sessions received 670 votes. Mayor Doug Ingles had 668.
Earlier unofficial figures had shown Sessions with a 64-vote lead over the 51-year-old incumbent. But several votes for Sessions, a write-in candidate, were disqualified because they were actually cast for other candidates.
Ingles has until 5 p.m. EST Wednesday to ask for a recount.
Sessions used $700 from a summer job to fund his race, putting up signs throughout the city and campaigning door-to-door in the town of 8,200 people.
Sessions appeared Thursday on "Late Show with David Letterman" to read the Top 10 list of "Good Things About Being an 18-year-old Mayor."
The list included "Parents try to tell me what to do, I raise their taxes" (No. 10), "I got a call from Demi Moore" (No. 6) and "It's flattering when President Bush calls me for advice" (No. 1).
WOW!!
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11-11-2005, 02:46 PM
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| | | I saw this on Wed. I think it is awesome. He has an interesting few years ahead of him. It is the largest town to ever elect a teenager as mayor.
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11-11-2005, 04:16 PM
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| | | Good for him for using that money to fund his campaign. This is sure going to different for him.
Now, just let him run for President....
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11-11-2005, 04:23 PM
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| | | He's gotta wait 17 more years for that honor.
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11-11-2005, 06:47 PM
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| | | I wonder how Mr. Ingles feels..
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11-11-2005, 07:02 PM
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| | | An 18 year old mayor? I think there are only a few 18 year olds that could actually do a good job as mayor....Certainly interesting for him.
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11-12-2005, 03:18 AM
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| | | Considering the sorry state that Indianapolis is in, I'd vote for him. Then again, if a dog ran aginst the mayor we have, I'd vote for the dog.
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11-13-2005, 04:55 PM
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| | | I wonder if the Ingles he beat is a decendant of the Ingles family in Little house, they were in Minnesota most of the latter parts of the books...
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11-13-2005, 05:09 PM
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| | | In our city, we had a high schooler who graduated the previous year run for city council, but he was beat out of the race. He still got 10% of the votes. |
11-13-2005, 05:16 PM
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| | | If I were the Ingles dude I would be pretty ticked off right now. Knowing I just lost the mayor race to a teenager would be kind of like losing to a team of girls in football.
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11-13-2005, 05:44 PM
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| | | So there is hope for me if I run in 2 years at age 26. That's awesome news for the 18 year old.
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11-14-2005, 02:08 AM
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| | | I can't really take it seriously. What 18 year old could really do a good job? There's no way for someone at that age to know how the job of being a mayor is done. Let's be honest and face it, he won a [I]popularity contest[/I] because of the novelty of an 18 year old running for mayor. To me, it's a joke.
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11-14-2005, 02:44 AM
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| | | Ok, here's a dilemma for you- let's say you work in a place that sells/serves liquor.
In comes the mayor, wanting to buy alchohol. Violate the law and serve him, or deny him, and face his wrath?
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11-14-2005, 09:48 AM
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| | | I'm pretty sure if this was any of us we already would've set aside part of the city budget to open a new amusement park
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11-14-2005, 02:45 PM
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| | | [quote]I can't really take it seriously. What 18 year old could really do a good job? There's no way for someone at that age to know how the job of being a mayor is done. Let's be honest and face it, he won a [I]popularity contest[/I] because of the novelty of an 18 year old [URL="http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/showthread.php?t=36802#"]running[/URL] for mayor. To me, it's a joke.[/quote]
I can think of a handful of seniors at my school who could do a better job than charlotte's current mayor; Pat McCrory. I'm sure certain 18-year-olds could do this.
Also, my aunt is the mayor of one of charlotte's suburbs. She had no political experience when she ran. The job really isn't that hard.
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