Michael J. Leboff, a 20-year-old junior at Sacred Heart University, signaled his intent to run for mayor of Rockville Centre on Monday when a family member went to Village Hall to get an election information packet for him and a link to a website for downloading nominating petitions and financial forms.

Leboff, a media studies major who was born and raised in the village, says he plans to run as an independent in the June 21 village election. He will compete against Francis X. Murray, who threw his hat into the ring several weeks ago and introduced running mates Nancy Howard and Michael Sepe on the new RVC United Party, and Mayor Mary Bossart, who is expected to announce that she will run for a second term on the Concerned Citizens line, along with Trustee David Krasula and a second candidate who has not yet been identified.

– Judy Rattner, Long Island Herald.

Fellow Rockville Centre native Paul passes along this link. I don’t know Leboff, but good luck to him. My friend Ripps put together an exploratory committee to run for mayor when we were 18. His platform was to be making the cops less adamant in “harassing” high-school kids (nearly all of whom totally deserved it), and his exploratory committee was me and my friends sitting around in his backyard talking about how hilarious it would be if he got himself elected mayor. We got lazy and never followed through.

Anyway, if elected, Leboff faces a huge challenge. The mayor of Rockville Centre has to cut a ton of ribbons. I’m pretty sure that is the primary function of the office. Every single time a new business opens, you need to be there with oversized scissors to cut the ribbon. Candidate Francis X. Murray’s father, the O.G. Mayor Murray, cut about a ribbon a week for like 30 years. It’s quite a feat of endurance. Are you up for that, Michael Leboff?

Also, Leboff is up against some stiff competition. Bossart has been in town politics since at least the late 80s, when she ran for the library board on the same ticket as my friend’s dad. And the Murrays are a village institution.