Cat Has Been Alaskan Mayor For 15 Years

And, unlike a certain governor, has kept the job.

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.

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