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Mayoral Candidate Campaigns to Lose The mayor of Montrose, Penn., made a last-minute appeal to the voters: Please, send me home. Thomas LaMont faces an election Tuesday that he wishes he would lose. He's tired of the job, which mainly involves weddings and parades, and pays only $900 per year. Unfortunately for Mayor LaMont, he's the only candidate on the ballot in the town of 1,600. If he wins, as expected, the mayor made a campaign promise to resign.

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The mayor of Montrose, Penn., made a last-minute appeal to the voters: Please, send me home. Thomas LaMont faces an election Tuesday that he wishes he would lose. He's tired of the job, which mainly involves weddings and parades, and pays only $900 per year. Unfortunately for Mayor LaMont, he's the only candidate on the ballot in the town of 1,600. If he wins, as expected, the mayor made a campaign promise to resign.