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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 ‘I love my little town’: A 21-year-old is the youngest woman mayor in US history

Brooke Huckaby, 21, did not find out she was the country’s youngest female mayor until her swearing in ceremony in January, writes Isaac Lozano

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She should build an ice skating rink
- 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.
  
  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
- 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.
  
  If there was no one running against her: People should get involved if they disagree
  
  If there was someone running against her: She's the one who got elected
  
  As far as I understand her father didn't just give her the position...
- Not really, either she got elected or no one bothered to show up as an alternative.
  
  I am sure you appreciated Bush 2 Electric Boogaloo, Hillary Clinton's disastrous run that only happened because she had insider clout from her husband to shut down the Sanders campaign, RFK Jr the "My daddy was a civil rights hero who was shot" candidate, and the constant calls for Michelle Obama and Chelsea Clinton to save us?
  
  Being a close relative of someone who held a position should disqualify you from that position - there is far too much hereditary bullshit in American politics.
- Not sure how you are defining nepotism here.
  
  Her dad was mayor and she's inheriting it.
When Craig Huckaby announced he would not seek re-election as mayor, Brooke decided to join the family business.

Sigh...
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
She was elected not appointed. No nepotism here just democracy.
- That 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.
  
  Texas and Georgia might be the two most likely states for a Gunbarrel City to exist in. I say that as a Georgian
Not even the first also here another that is the youngest
- Youngest woman mayor though
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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.

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