It isn’t often that a high school student decides to run for city council. It’s even less often that high schooler ends up winning.
Eighteen-year-old Alex Savage, now a nursing student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, did just that when he was elected to one of five at-large seats on the Carencro City Council, coming in fourth with 1,203 votes.
“It’s a little out-of-the-box,” Savage admitted. “Some people were definitely skeptical at first.”…