Muskogee's Teen Mayor:

MSNBC ^ | 5/16/08 | Oyarsa

[Oyarsa]

Muskogee's teen mayor 19-year-old ready for mayoral challenge, bipartisan politics and new gal The Associated Press updated 5:25 p.m. CT, Fri., May. 16, 2008 MUSKOGEE, Okla. - Nineteen-year-old John Tyler Hammons has a lot on his plate as he prepares to take over as mayor of this eastern Oklahoma city, but he's trying to keep his priorities straight.

Juggling calls from people around the country Thursday, he took an important one from his mother. She wanted to know what time he would be home for dinner.

[Theo]

Teens are able to do a whole lot more than what’s typically expected of them. Kudos to this young man.

[sinanju]

“Hammons, a registered Republican, is Oklahoma’s youngest at-large delegate to the Republican National Convention. But when it comes to serving as mayor of Muskogee, an unpaid position, he plans to govern in a nonpartisan way.

“Politics stop at the door,” Hammons said. “If someone wants to talk politics, I will literally leave the office and leave the building if I have to. In this office, it needs to be Muskogee-oriented.”

Residents appear willing to give the young mayor a chance.”

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Read the whole thing, and yes, look at the picture. He looks and sounds like he actually has his head on straight. I would say at the very least, Muskogee is NOT going to re-enact the seventies’ tenure of Cleveland’s Dennis Kucinich.

[no dems]

It’s a shame we don’t have 435 teens in the House of Rep. and 100 Teens in the U.S. Senate. They could do no worse than the bunch of losers we have there now.

[FortWorthPatriot]

Did you notice that MSNBC put the story under their “Weird News” category? I wonder if they would have done so if the young man was a Democrat?