神秘内容 Loading...

  (来源:专业英语学习网站 http://www.EnglishCN.com)

Is the new mayor late for homeroom?

Many thanks to all the participants!

  Katie Couric:...want you to meet someone a lot closer to home, Michael Sessions. He is a high school senior, but his biggest headache isn't the prom or even math class, although recently for him , life has been a number's game. On Tuesday at the tender age 18 he was elected mayor of Hillsdale, Michigan, winning by only two, that's right, count on two votes.

  Katie Couric: Mayor-elect Sessions, good morning, congratulations!

  Michael Sessions: Thank you.

  Katie Couric: Very nice to meet you.

  Michael Sessions: Nice to meet you too.

  Katie Couric: Well good, listen. So this has been crazy for you, right? (Oh, it's..)You were on Nightwing a couple of nights ago. (Yes) You were on David Letterman last night. (Last night, yep) and the. . . you know, (It's 8 am and I am on the Today show) this little, this little Today show thing. And what is it if they like for you? Has it been just insanity? Fun?

  Michael Sessions: It's, It's been overwhelming but it's been fun at the same time, I mean. . for the past 72 hours it's been nonstop.

  Katie Couric: How did this whole thing get started, by the way?

  Michael Sessions: Well, I really, I thought you know, I can bring some energy to the city so I thought I wanna, I wanna run for mayor in the city of Hillsdale, so back in, back in May I decided, well, when my cousin and I called the City Clerk's Office and see "Well, can I run?, can I fill a petition and run? " Well, the city clerk said: " No, you can't do it, you are 17, and you are not a registered voter yet. So it comes around my birthday, first thing I go to do, register to vote.

  Katie Couric: Good for you and then(Ne(xt), then...) they said ok, you can run?

  Michael Sessions: Well next week, they sent me my voter registration card and then I was in there filling up my declaration to be a write-in candidate.

  Katie Couric: And then you used , what, $700 you'd earned from summer jobs?

  Michael Sessions: Yes, from my summer jobs.

  Katie Couric:For your campaign?

  Michael Sessions: Yep, yep

  Katie Couric: Ok, now, I am just curious, did you have any competition?

  Michael Sessions: Yes I did. There was a guy in the ballot.

  Katie Couric: Yeah, and why do you think that the voters of Hillsdale ultimately cast their ballots for you and what was your platform?

  Michael Sessions: I, you know I wanted to bring enthusiasm to the city, and one of the biggest things was we gotta do, we gotta revitalize our economy. We're a small city but we've got plenty of aluminum industrial part to grow. That's one of the main reasons you know I want to try to help the city compete for the jobs to bring them to our city and also. . .

  Katie Couric: Yeah, how do you propose to do that?

  Michael Sessions: Well, there is a number of ways, you know first of all I...

  Katie Couric: You feel like to meet the press?

  Michael Sessions: Yeah, I meet the press right now. But You know in the coming weeks we are gonna develop plans with the city Council as such, I am only one vote on the city Council, essen(tially), essentially, but we will have to see .

  Katie Couric:Well, it's really a very very exciting you are doing this. But What about going to college,(Well..) I mean, obviously you are a smart , involved young man(Right. Right.) , You don't want to go on to college? Or you are to defer (well, I do) college and you're gonna go while you are a mayor?

 
神秘内容 Loading...

你可能对下面的文章也感兴趣:

·A Woman's Ideal Weight
·Donny Deutsch talks about his new book
·克林顿的新女友
·PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE 总理公署
·PARLIAMENT 国会
·MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 国家发展部
·MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS AND TH
·MINISTRY OF HEALTH 卫生部
·MINISTRY OF DEFENCE 国防部
·MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT 交通部

共2页: 上一页 1 [2] 下一页
上一篇:100句英语可以帮你背7000单词  
下一篇:A Woman's Ideal Weight
[返回顶部] [打印本页] [关闭窗口]