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US high school teen elected mayor

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An 18-year-old American is about to combine high school with politics - by becoming mayor of his home town.

Michael Sessions - who last year ran for his school council and lost - has been elected mayor of Hillsdale, a town of 8,200 in the US state of Michigan.

He ousted the 51-year-old incumbent in a campaign costing $700 (£400) paid for by a summer job selling toffee apples.

Mr Sessions says he intends to carry on studying through his four-year term and will go to town meetings after class.

He is due to take up the part-time position, which offers a $3,600 (£2,070) stipend, on 21 November.

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Since beating incumbent Douglas Ingles, he has become an overnight celebrity, giving media interviews and appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman.

He seems to have won over voters with his enthusiasm, despite his obvious youth.

Map showing Hillsdale, Michigan

"They'd look at me and say 'How old are you again?'," he said, explaining he went on to tell them his ideas for attracting money and jobs to the town.

To make matters harder, the teenager had not turned 18 before the deadline for filing his name for the ballot paper had passed.

Undeterred, he went to the town hall to register as a voter on his birthday and a week later declared he would run a write-in campaign.

This meant spending the next month going door-to-door with business cards and a sample ballot to show people where to write in his name on polling day.

Although the day-to-day running of the town will continue to fall to the city manager, Mr Sessions will have to attend two meetings a month after school.

Peter Beck, principal of Hillsdale High, is quoted by the Los Angeles Times as saying: "I told him that if he wins, he'll still need to finish his homework... I'd hate to have to suspend a city official."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4429192.stm

Wow would not be surprised if the kid ends up being President in a few years time.

But don't you agree that he seems to young?


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thats a very small town where im sure the mayor has very little duties. And I would imagine an age requirement coming int he near future. But thats GREAT for that kids resume especially if he wants to get into any type of law or political carear.

You wont even see him thinking about prisdent for a while because it does have an age restriction.


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Mmm, I wouldn't necessarily say he's too young...I mean, maybe if he's still in high school, but who knows. In Illinois you can run to serve in the state government once you're 18.


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That lucky little...

That has to be the ULTIMATE college application credential...


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seriously

talk about a top notch resume messed

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Wow. Now I have a goal: Become mayor of Cincinnati. I mean C'mon, Who cares about Cincinnati? wink


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Wow. Now I have a goal: Become mayor of Cincinnati. I mean C'mon, Who cares about Cincinnati? wink


I sure as hell don't

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well done i say. theres a mayor in Aus whos 22 i think, if they can do it, let them


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didn't Michael Moore get elected to the state school board when he was in high school?


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What kind of backwater, redneck infested hell hole elects an 18 year old to be mayor? The incumbent must have been a real ass monkey.


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Wow. Now I have a goal: Become mayor of Cincinnati. I mean C'mon, Who cares about Cincinnati? wink


Run for mayor in our town wink


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