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‘I love my little town’: A 21-year-old in Georgia is the youngest woman mayor in US history
(www.independent.co.uk)
She should build an ice skating rink
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Generally a nice thing to have, but why specifically?
(I'm going to guess it's a reference to something, but I've had no luck searching)
In Parks and Rec. there is the character Ben Wyatt (played by Adam Scott) who has a backstory of getting elected mayor at 18 and ruining his towns finances by building an ice skating rig called Ice Town.
Newspaper headline following his impeachment: Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Town Crown
It's a parks and recreation reference. A character was a very young mayor and ruined the city which involved building an ice skating rink
Ice town costs ice clown his town crown
Iirc Benji Wyatt was 18 (vs 21) and his prom date just stood him up.
and he likes calzones
"Do you think a depressed person could make this?"
Came in here for this
Was scrolling comments until I saw someone mention this.
Thank you.
"Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Town Crown."
I'd be mildly amused by this story but it's literally just nepotism
Yeah, it's pretty bad. It's literally "my dad, the former mayor, didn't run so I ran in his place." Personally, I would have a hard time voting for her, no matter how good her father was. Fuck political inheritance. That's damn near antithetical to the ideal of (the American vision of) democracy.
Not sure how you are defining nepotism here.
Her dad was mayor and she's inheriting it.
I might have missed it, the article says she was elected but also doesn't mention how many opponents there were running against her or what the vote share was.
Was there actually a vote?
That's not how that works. That's not how any of this works!
When Craig Huckaby announced he would not seek re-election as mayor, Brooke decided to join the family business.
Sigh...
She was elected not appointed. No nepotism here just democracy.
That not correct maybe in Georgia but in Texas we had a 21 one year old mayor in Gunbarrel City for all of 6 months before he was removed for violating financial of the city to run his personal newspaper he owned. But not the youngest is US history.
Texas and Georgia might be the two most likely states for a Gunbarrel City to exist in. I say that as a Georgian
Maybe but definitely remember the 21 year old mayor when I lived in Athens Texas. Gunbarrell City was only town we could legally buy liquor. I also met the mayor because our neighbors were friends of his family and bragged endlessly about how this 21 year old was the youngest mayor ever. It was funny when he was recalled they didn't talk about him anymore.
This would have been around 2002 if you want to look it up. But this woman is not the youngest ever.
Here the guy.
Until the deepfakes make their appearance..
What do you mean? Will that make her step down? Or are we going to get a younger mayor thanks to deepfakes?
6 year-old mayor. Stay out of prison or create CSAM deepfakes?
Checkmate... Atheists? Who are we offending tonight?
The deepfake porn gets too good and people think she combines it with being mayor, I guess.
I've read something some days ago about a candidate I can't remember if she was rep or dem who dropped her political career because some deepfakes popped up.
If it was same one (I don't want to think about how many might have been pressured to quit their dreams over deepfake porn), it was a young lady from Florida.
Youngest human. Several cats have been elected mayor in US history, and I doubt they were all over 21.
To be fair, with a population of only 500, the only job qualifications for being Mayor are
- Literate
- GED or equivalent
- Have a pulse
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Not even the first also here another that is the youngest
Youngest woman mayor though