Despite having no experience, no platform to speak , no real power he became the Mayor of a small town in Alaska. Who is he? He name is Stubbs. He is the cat, leader of Talkeetna, for nearly 20 years.
Talkeetna is a small town with fewer than 900 residents, In fact, as an unincorporated territory, it’s not even really a town at all. it is a village” In 1997, the mayoral election sparked apathy in the community, with no candidate deemed worthy enough.
The manager at a General Store, picked a kitty from a box full of unwanted cats. She selected a little ginger kitten whom she fittingly called “Stubbs.”A political star was born. The people of Talkeetna accepted the cat as their Mayor. Mayor Stubbs became the town’s new leader. According to the manager “He doesn’t raise our taxes — we have no sales tax. He doesn’t interfere with business.
He’s honest.” Mayor Stubbs led a fairly scandal-free reign, until he had a run-in with an unleashed dog. The dog mauled Stubbs, who was left with a punctured lung, and well as broken bones and deep cuts. The mayor survived and kept up his career until he died four years later, in 2016, at the age of 20.
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