A Cat Once Won An Election For Mayor By A Landslide

Do you ever feel like politicians are just a bunch of animals? Well, in one small town in Alaska, that's exactly what they elected. Meet Stubbs the cat, the honorary mayor of Talkeetna. It may sound like a joke, but this feline held the position for 20 years until his death in 2017, and he was much loved by locals and tourists alike.

So how did a cat become a mayor? The story goes that in 1997, the residents of Talkeetna were so dissatisfied with their human candidates for mayor that they decided to elect a write-in candidate instead. Stubbs, who was just a kitten at the time, won by a landslide, and he served in office for the next two decades and

[sniffles]

I would trust that Cat well before I'd ever trust a politician.