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You can now forget about Governor Palin,&nbsp;Alaskan Town Talkeetna Has Cat for Mayor
A cat named Stubbs has been the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska for nearly all of his life.
It&rsquo;s been that way for more than a decade in the small tourist town that boasts nearly 900 residents.&nbsp;The part-manx was named honorary mayor shortly after his birth, and now locals all know the cat as &ldquo;Mayor Stubbs.&rdquo;
&ldquo;He was just in the Alaska Magazine, and he&rsquo;s been featured in a few different things,&rdquo; said Lauri Stec, who works at Nagley&rsquo;s General Store in Talkeetna, where Stubbs hangs out most of the time.
As the story goes, 15 years ago several of the town residents didn&rsquo;t like the candidates who were running for mayor of Talkeetna, so as a joke, they encouraged enough people to elect Stubbs the cat as a write-in candidate.
He won.
Now, thanks to Stubbs, local tour guides have a little fun with the thousands of tourists who come through the town each summer.
&ldquo;Their tour guides will trick them,&rdquo; said Skye Farrar, who also works at Nagley&rsquo;s. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ll tell them to go to Nagley&rsquo;s and ask for the mayor.&rdquo; About&nbsp;30 to 40 people a day come in who are tourists wanting to see him.
If you&rsquo;d like to catch him in person, there&rsquo;s one afternoon appointment that locals say Stubbs always keeps at Nagley&rsquo;s.&ldquo;Every day he goes in there and has catnip in a wine glass,&rdquo; said Talkeetna resident Jerry Roach.
As word about Stubbs spreads, the folks at Nagley&rsquo;s say more people are stopping by the store, and even making trips to Alaska just to spot the 15-year-old cat.
Farrar summed up Stubbs&rsquo; mayorship and the benefit of added tourism it&rsquo;s brought to the town: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m very confident that Talkeena will be A-OK, as long as we have Stubbs around.&rdquo;

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