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This is the kind of leadership we need....!
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Stubbs the cat
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Date: July 21, 2012 07:43AM
Cat has been mayor of Alaska town for 15 years
Mayor Stubbs has been at the helm of the small town of Talkeetna, Alaska for 15 years - an impressive feat for any elected official, but even more so considering Stubbs is a cat.
By Meena Hart Duerson / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/cat-mayor-alaska-town-15-years-article-1.1116263#ixzz21FxfNGmV
Mayor Stubbs has been at the helm of the small town of Talkeetna, Alaska for 15 years - an impressive feat for any elected official, but even more so considering Stubbs is a cat.
The part-manx is popular among residents, who voted him into office in a write-in election a decade and a half ago when he was a kitten, after rejecting the human candidates on the ballot.
"Lo and behold, Stubbs the cat won the write-in that year," one resident told NBC affiliate WBBH. "And he's been our mayor ever since."
Stubbs was named Talkeeta’s honorary mayor, giving him what’s really a figurehead role since the 900-person town is a “historical district,” Chamber of Commerce president Andi Manning explained to CNN.
Town residents are perfectly happy with their choice, and had nothing but praise for his record in office.
"He's good. Probably the best we've had," Laurie Stec told WBBH.
Stec manages Stubbs’s main haunt, Nagley’s General Store, and says the cat has been a good leader when it comes to local small businesses.
"He doesn't raise our taxes - we have no sales tax. He doesn't interfere with business,” she told CNN. “He's honest.”
Yet Stubbs has exhibited some diva behavior, such as drinking water out of a wine glass laden with catnip every afternoon.
'All throughout the day I have to take care of the mayor. He's very demanding,' Nagley’s employee Skye Farrar told CNN. 'He meowed and meowed and meowed and demanded to be picked up and put on the counter.'
“All throughout the day I have to take care of the mayor. He's very demanding," Nagley’s employee Skye Farrar told CNN. "He meowed and meowed and meowed and demanded to be picked up and put on the counter. And he demanded to be taken away from the tourists. Then he had his long, afternoon nap."
Despite his high-maintenance habits, the mayor is well-loved in the town and online - he already has more than 10,000 subscribers on Facebook. Nagleys staffers say they’re flooded with cards and letters for him, and that 30 to 40 people come in each day hoping to meet “the mayor.”
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Stubbs was named Talkeeta’s honorary mayor, giving him what’s really a figurehead role since the 900-person town is a “historical district,” Chamber of Commerce president Andi Manning explained
And Stubbs seems here to stay.
"His biggest political rivals would be other local businesses that would hate that he comes over and takes a nap and leaves fur everywhere. They aren't big fans of him," Farrar told CNN. "We usually say, 'You have to deal with it. He runs the town.'"
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Mayor Stubbs has been at the helm of the small town of Talkeetna, Alaska for 15 years - an impressive feat for any elected official, but even more so considering Stubbs is a cat.
By Meena Hart Duerson / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/cat-mayor-alaska-town-15-years-article-1.1116263#ixzz21FxfNGmV
Mayor Stubbs has been at the helm of the small town of Talkeetna, Alaska for 15 years - an impressive feat for any elected official, but even more so considering Stubbs is a cat.
The part-manx is popular among residents, who voted him into office in a write-in election a decade and a half ago when he was a kitten, after rejecting the human candidates on the ballot.
"Lo and behold, Stubbs the cat won the write-in that year," one resident told NBC affiliate WBBH. "And he's been our mayor ever since."
Stubbs was named Talkeeta’s honorary mayor, giving him what’s really a figurehead role since the 900-person town is a “historical district,” Chamber of Commerce president Andi Manning explained to CNN.
Town residents are perfectly happy with their choice, and had nothing but praise for his record in office.
"He's good. Probably the best we've had," Laurie Stec told WBBH.
Stec manages Stubbs’s main haunt, Nagley’s General Store, and says the cat has been a good leader when it comes to local small businesses.
"He doesn't raise our taxes - we have no sales tax. He doesn't interfere with business,” she told CNN. “He's honest.”
Yet Stubbs has exhibited some diva behavior, such as drinking water out of a wine glass laden with catnip every afternoon.
'All throughout the day I have to take care of the mayor. He's very demanding,' Nagley’s employee Skye Farrar told CNN. 'He meowed and meowed and meowed and demanded to be picked up and put on the counter.'
“All throughout the day I have to take care of the mayor. He's very demanding," Nagley’s employee Skye Farrar told CNN. "He meowed and meowed and meowed and demanded to be picked up and put on the counter. And he demanded to be taken away from the tourists. Then he had his long, afternoon nap."
Despite his high-maintenance habits, the mayor is well-loved in the town and online - he already has more than 10,000 subscribers on Facebook. Nagleys staffers say they’re flooded with cards and letters for him, and that 30 to 40 people come in each day hoping to meet “the mayor.”
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Stubbs was named Talkeeta’s honorary mayor, giving him what’s really a figurehead role since the 900-person town is a “historical district,” Chamber of Commerce president Andi Manning explained
And Stubbs seems here to stay.
"His biggest political rivals would be other local businesses that would hate that he comes over and takes a nap and leaves fur everywhere. They aren't big fans of him," Farrar told CNN. "We usually say, 'You have to deal with it. He runs the town.'"
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Posted by:
HAWT
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Date: July 21, 2012 07:55AM
Now this is real leadership.
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Posted by:
lapdog media
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Date: July 21, 2012 08:00AM
I heard as soon as Stubbs got in office he blamed Mittens the previous cat mayor for any and all problems.
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Posted by:
lapdog republican
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Date: July 21, 2012 08:04AM
MItt - the great white hunter.
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Stubbs the cat
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Date: July 21, 2012 08:14AM
http://www.phillyburbs.com/lifestyle/pets/meet-stubbs-the-cat-the-mayor-of-talkeetna-alaska/article_f88b1f34-d024-11e1-83ee-0019bb30f31a.html
Stubbs has brought a slew of publicity to the tiny fishing town. Because of his increased celebrity, Talkeetna has become a large tourist destination in Alaska and the residents are thankful for the boost in economy primarily sparked by their cuddly mayor.
Mayor Stubbs has over 3,000 likes on his Facebook page, more than the entire population of Talkeetna.
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Stubbs has brought a slew of publicity to the tiny fishing town. Because of his increased celebrity, Talkeetna has become a large tourist destination in Alaska and the residents are thankful for the boost in economy primarily sparked by their cuddly mayor.
Mayor Stubbs has over 3,000 likes on his Facebook page, more than the entire population of Talkeetna.
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Posted by:
Gerry C
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Date: July 21, 2012 08:19AM
I knew Stubbs when he was just a kitten.
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Posted by:
Mitt Romney
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Date: July 21, 2012 08:36AM
I'm a big supporter of his "Flea and Tick Collar" intiative, but disagree with his economic plan for the "spaying and neutering" of redneck humans.
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Posted by:
Perkns
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Date: July 21, 2012 08:36AM
Leader or Flip Flopper?
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Posted by:
Mr. Mittens
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Date: July 21, 2012 08:55AM
lapdog media Wrote:
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> I heard as soon as Stubbs got in office he blamed
> Mittens the previous cat mayor for any and all
> problems.
When our reporters contacted the former Mayor, Mister Mittens, he had this comment...
"Meeeeeeowwwww!"
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> I heard as soon as Stubbs got in office he blamed
> Mittens the previous cat mayor for any and all
> problems.
When our reporters contacted the former Mayor, Mister Mittens, he had this comment...
"Meeeeeeowwwww!"
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Posted by:
Occupy litter box
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Date: July 21, 2012 09:01AM
Screw Stubbs, he supports tax breaks for the evil 1%
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Posted by:
OWNED
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Date: July 21, 2012 09:12AM
^ I found your birth video.
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Posted by:
Stubbs for President!
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Date: July 21, 2012 09:12AM
Stubbs knows how to cut a rug...
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Posted by:
Ivy Bigbee
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Date: July 21, 2012 10:24AM
They elected a cat? That's so funny and disturbing at the same time.
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Posted by:
Kolob
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Date: July 21, 2012 10:36AM
Kinda scary that this guy in magic underpants could be our next President.
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Posted by:
Two Cents
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Date: July 21, 2012 10:45AM
Oddly enough, I like the idea of voting for a cat over both Obama and Romney.
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Posted by:
The Cat's Meow
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Date: July 22, 2012 08:39PM
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Posted by:
Write Him In!
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Date: July 22, 2012 10:52PM
What the hell. Better than Connolly.
He's got my vote!
He's got my vote!
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Posted by:
Vote for Stubb's 2012!
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Date: July 24, 2012 06:21PM
He's got my vote!
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Posted by:
NRA 75
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Date: July 24, 2012 07:06PM
Bleh gets my pick. Seems more reasonable than both of em.
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Posted by:
FELIX
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Date: July 24, 2012 07:14PM
You are all a bunch of pussies.
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Posted by:
biker
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Date: July 24, 2012 07:48PM
Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes!
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Posted by:
triker
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Date: July 25, 2012 10:31AM
I don't believe desperate double speak.
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Posted by:
T. Hurd Wirld
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Date: July 25, 2012 12:45PM
Another cat was elected mayor of Saigon, but instead of providing years of service wound up being served for lunch.
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Posted by:
Dr. Seuss
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Date: July 25, 2012 05:23PM
The Cat in the HaT
"We looked!
Then we saw him
step in on the mat!
We looked!
And we saw him!
The Cat in the Hat!"
“I know it is wet
And the sun is not sunny.
But we can have
Lots of good fun
that is funny!”
“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have
to know how.”
“'Have no fear, little fish,'
Said the Cat in the Hat.
'These Things are
good Things.'
And he gave them a pat."
"Then our mother came in
And she said to us two,
'Did you have any fun?
Tell me. What did
you do?"
And Sally and I did not
know what to say.
Should we tell her
The things that went on
there that day?"
"Well...what would YOU do
If your mother asked?
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"We looked!
Then we saw him
step in on the mat!
We looked!
And we saw him!
The Cat in the Hat!"
“I know it is wet
And the sun is not sunny.
But we can have
Lots of good fun
that is funny!”
“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have
to know how.”
“'Have no fear, little fish,'
Said the Cat in the Hat.
'These Things are
good Things.'
And he gave them a pat."
"Then our mother came in
And she said to us two,
'Did you have any fun?
Tell me. What did
you do?"
And Sally and I did not
know what to say.
Should we tell her
The things that went on
there that day?"
"Well...what would YOU do
If your mother asked?
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Posted by:
hostileprophet
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Date: July 25, 2012 06:56PM
Oh how I hope this happens
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