Students Tell Umstaddt "Throw out the Bullies"

Mayors are supposed to be responsive to their constituents, but you usually have to be of voting age to throw in your two cents.

It’s not so in Leesburg.

Children younger than five shared their suggestions for the 22^nd year running with Leesburg’s mayor at annual “If I Were Mayor for a Day” reading.

Current Leesburg Mayor Kristen C. Umstattd visited the reading, for what teacher Susan Hower believes was the ninth session of suggestions from youngsters.

Hower’s Pre-Kindergarten class has been creating a book of suggestions and wishes for Leesburg’s mayors for more than two decades.

At , Umstaddt read the book into the record.

Bullies were a major concern among students, who said they would use their mayoral clout to run the unpleasant people out of town.