Fantastic 18-year-old Mayor
This photo could not be any more staged
This 18-year-old kid was all over the news because he was elected mayor of his Michigan town, by a write-in vote, defeating the incumbent mayor. This was actually a political fantasy of mine when I was about 12. I daydreamed that I’d go door-to-door and solicit my whole town, and since I’d shake everyone’s hand, and my opponent probably wouldn’t, I’d have the edge. I imagined some bigwig incumbent reading the results and going “Whaaa???” over his morning coffee. Of course, I knew nothing about politics, but I was enamored with the idea nonetheless.
November 14th, 2005 at 6:03 pm
So the moral of the story is… sometimes delusions of grandeur can pay off?
November 14th, 2005 at 6:06 pm
Well, I don’t know about delusion in the case of the mayor. I don’t have any information about his state of mind besides what’s in the linked article. *I* was very obviously deluded, but that’s self-evident since I’m obviously not the mayor of anything.
Last time I checked.
November 15th, 2005 at 11:20 am
I have never ever heard of this working. I remember in high school where people would right in deez nuts and shit like that. Wouldn’t it of been great if deez nuts became the president of our school from a write in? Nice.
Congrats to the kid! That is cool!
November 16th, 2005 at 9:11 am
Saw a clip of him on the Daily Show… he was all like, “I’ll be in school from 7:00-2:00, and do mayor stuff from 3:00-6:00.”
Jon Stewart: “Three hours? What, does he think he’s the President?”