Hizzoner Can Meet...Right After School

You have to admire this kid:

Michael Sessions' political career had an inauspicious start: When he ran for student council this year, he lost.

Now he's about to be mayor.

Sessions, an 18-year-old high school student, won a long-shot write-in campaign this week to oust Hillsdale's 51-year-old mayor.

"I just thought I'd give it a shot," Sessions said with a smile. "I hoped I'd win. But I didn't really know what would happen."

The election swept Sessions -- indeed, all of this usually staid southern Michigan city -- into an intense spotlight Wednesday. So many television stations showed up at the city's high school to interview Sessions that the superintendent pulled him from class. After he got home, a giant satellite truck lumbered up the narrow road in front of his house.

County officials expected to make the results official today. Their unofficial tally had Sessions winning over the incumbent, Douglas Ingles, 732 to 668.
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Sessions was too young to put his name on the ballot; he turned 18 after the filing deadline. So he registered to vote on his birthday, and the next week declared he would run a write-in campaign.

"I guess that's all the political obstacles you could really have in an election -- being 18, running against an incumbent and running as a write-in," Sessions' father, Scott Sessions, said.

Sessions started campaigning a month ago. He spent $700 he earned selling caramel apples and other snacks over the summer to pay for business cards and lawn signs. He took friends campaigning door-to-door.
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Sessions said he wants to attend Hillsdale College next year to study political science; he hasn't applied. It could leave college officials in an interesting situation. "If the president of the college wants to get a street re-paved," Wolfram mused, "he'll have to call a freshman."

I don't know what political party he belongs to, but I wish him good luck in his new job. He's going to go places.