Ayelet Sheffey, Business Insider
An accountant got $20,000 in student debt wiped out. 5 months later, he quit his job and ran for office.
When Insider spoke to David O'Keefe in August, it was just days after his $20,000 student-debt balance turned to $0. Now, free of that financial burden, the 36-year-old is quitting accounting and running for office as a county commissioner in his hometown of Tallahassee, Florida.