Here's one for Ozzy

[Deity Dude]

The newly elected mayor of Hillsdale, Michigan (a smallish college town in south central Michigan) is an 18 year old write-in candidate.

Story is just breaking so I don't have alot of details. He is a High-School student, so it isn't even like all the college kids got together for a protest.

My in-laws have a cottage in the city, so that is why I have heard about it so early perhaps. Anyways, I think it is amusing, because now "the citizens" are demanding a recall before he is even put into office.

One of them was quoted as saying, "If we had known this was going to happen we would have voted"

OOOPS

Story developing.

[Sava]

[DRoseDARs]

Google is your friend. (TM)

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=43226

Teen elected mayor of Michigan town

Created: 11/10/2005 12:06:14 PM
Updated:11/10/2005 12:21:18 PM

HILLSDALE, Michigan -- He hasn't even graduated from high school yet but he's already mayor of a small Michigan town.
18 year-old Michael Sessions was elected mayor of Hillsdale, Michigan after a successfull write-in campaign.

Young Sessions got into the race about six weeks ago, the day after he turned 18.

But just because he's mayor doesn't mean he'll be able to slack on his school work.

"You know, I'll go to school from 7:50 to 2:30 each day and from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., I'll be doing mayor business," Sessions says.

Sessions used $700 saved from his summer job to fund his campaign.

He takes office November 21st.

© 2005


WKYC-TV

Also,

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9981885/

Michigan town elects teen mayor
High-schooler wins write-in campaign thanks to friends at fire department

By Carl Quintanilla
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:45 p.m. ET Nov. 9, 2005

HILLSDALE, Mich. - English class just wasn't the same on Wednesday for Michael Sessions. His mom showed up, for one thing. And reporters called — asking to talk to the new mayor-elect of Hillsdale.

His Honor — but you can call him Michael — is a high school senior who unofficially beat the incumbent Tuesday night with a write-in campaign he financed with his summer job earnings, going door-to-door.

“It's just showing that young can step up and do things for the community,” he says.

The job pays only $3,000 a year, but the young political junkie says his motivation was bringing new ideas to a troubled town. Hillsdale, near Detroit, has lost jobs to outsourcing, including his own father's.

“Your parent will come home, and say you don't have a job, and you start thinking, we have to cut back,” says Michael.

Already, he says he owes the victory to his “base” — his friends at the fire department who endorsed him.

“I don't think his age was an issue,” says Hillsdale Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Pauken. “They were impressed with his enthusiasm.”

Indeed, Michael Sessions is a rare example of this cable TV generation for whom a political career does not seem a loser's bet.

“Who knows? Maybe he'll grow up to be president one day,” says Hillsdale City Manager Tim Vagle.

That question, for now, is off limits.

“I'm just taking it one step at a time,” says Michael.

Even before he's sworn in, he's learning fast.
© 2005 MSNBC Interactive

[Seeker]

Time for the national campaign?

[Dis]

I like Letterman's top 10 list. The post only included a few of them though.

"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)."