Why the town elects animals

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mayor

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animal elections have become a tradition

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to bring communities together without

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politics frankly we weren't convinced a

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dog was up to the job but what we

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discovered with mayor Max was truly

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unexpected

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hi there nice to meet you this is Mayor

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Max come on

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in hi my name is Phyllis Mueller I'm the

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chief of staff for the May of V wild and

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I'm also his owner I run mayor Max's

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day-to-day activities with the help of

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my husband Glenn Max goes to um Bachelor

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parties bachelorette parties weddings he

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also does out of town visits it's really

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kind of a full-time job

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we spend a lot of time doing it all the

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background work that's behind the scenes

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that we do with social media um we do

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produce an annual calendar the marax

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calendar have we have since 2014 um

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there's a lot of expense involved in

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that though it's a it's a time and money

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Endeavor today running the mayor's

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office cost my husband and I more than

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$120,000 a year to run but mayor Max is

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not a business to me and I can't sell

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the calendar and so I give it away for

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free it's a gift because I actually

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believe that anyone who gets my calendar

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and reads it