A 18-year-old man for the mayor in Alabama, said he was ‘ready to face challenges’

Two weeks after crossing the stage to receive his secondary school diploma, the 18-year-old Brandon Moss set foot on another podium announced his nomination as the Mayor of Fairfield, Alabama, he told ABC News.

Just leaving high school and preparation for this fall lecture, Moss is the youngest mayor candidate in the history of Fairfield, a city of around 9,500 people in southwest Birmingham, according to his campaign manager, Marilyn Yelder.

“I am ready to face this challenge. Age does not guarantee wisdom or innovation,” Moss told ABC News. “I will not say that I am perfect or I know everything, it will require a team of people both to be able to achieve good things.”

When he launched his campaign on June 7, Fairfield’s natives told reporters that he nominated himself as mayor because “I like this city, and I believe in his future.”

Moss, who is always interested in “the way of political political work,” told ABC News that he decided to nominate himself as a mayor after paying attention to “greater needs” in the city of Fairfield, especially about “business and better way of life.”

Quoting the Mayor of Birmingham Randall Woodfin (who has served since 2017) and former President Barack Obama as his political role model, Moss said he plans to bring a “new vision and new perspective” to the mayor’s office if elected.

“The administration of the past and the people who ran had done a good job at Fairfield, but I thought it was time for us to find something new,” Moss said.

Its political portfolio includes the experience of working in the Alabama Youth and Government program – as a youth senator and in the Governor Cabinet – together with serving the student advisory council for school supervisors of the City of Birmingham. He also worked as an executive apprenticeship for the Supervisory Office and was a graduate of the Birmingham Civil Academy.

If elected, Moss said he would focus on city finances by bringing forensic auditors to monitor city expenses and would also highlight small businesses by creating pop-up shops in shopping centers so they could “opportunities to be seen,” Moss said.

He also plans to deal with rotten diseases, problems where damaged or empty houses become overgrown with vegetation. Moss said that if he was elected, he would work with a federal government to receive grants that could help move these houses from the community.

Moss, who attended the Alabama University in Birmingham this fall, was ready to turn the college class and the responsibility of the Mayor, Yelder – his campaign manager – told ABC News.

“He does have a mentor team for every aspect, not only to help him reach the mayor, but people who help speak in public, mental health,” Yelder said. “I think he will be more than ready, even at the age of 18, to take the role of Mayor Fairfield.”

Other candidates who compete for the office including the member of the Board of Herman Carnes, a member of the Cedric Norman Council, a former member of the midfield council and the native of Fairfield James Assor and the Financial Consultant Michael Williams, according to ABC Birmingham Affiliate WBMA.

If Moss was not elected on August 26, Moss said he would plan to work in the political office. If the voice benefits him, he says he will “do work and look where it takes me.”