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Stubbs (born April 12, 1997) is a cat who has been the honorary mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, since July 1997. As of 2015, Stubbs is still mayor, and has been described as a tourist attraction, having been flooded with cards and letters, and drawing 30 to 40 tourists each day (most of whom are en route to other Alaska destinations, such as Denali) who hope to meet "the mayor". Stubbs's position is honorary, as the town is only a "historical district". Every afternoon, Stubbs goes to a nearby restaurant and drinks water out of a wineglass laden with catnip. At least one Alaska paper, the ''Alaska Dispatch News'', insists that the whole story is false, and that Talkeetna, Alaska does not, in fact, have a cat mayor. ==Early life and election== In 1997, Lauri Stec, manager of Nagley's General Store, found Stubbs in a box full of kittens in her parking lot. The owners were giving the kittens away; Stec chose "Stubbs" because he did not have a tail.〔(Mayor of Alaska village walks on four paws ) at CNN.com, by Holly Yan; posted July 17, 2012; retrieved July 17, 2012〕 A popular rumor states Stubbs was elected following a successful write-in campaign by voters who opposed the human candidates. However, according to NPR, the cat could not have been elected as a write-in candidate because "the tiny town has no real mayor, so there was no election." Nagley's General Store now doubles as Stubbs' Mayoral Office. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stubbs (cat)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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