Lucy Lou, 2006 (Rabbit Hash, Ky.) - September 10, 2018 (Rabbit Hash, Ky.)
VP candidate for Demeowcatic Repurrblican Party (2012)
Running mate with nominee: Stubbs the Cat (1997-2017)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
Talkeetna, Alaska was not actually an incorporated municipality when Stubbs the Cat was "elected" Mayor in 1997 as a part-Manx kitten with no tail (hence the name "Stubbs"). A whole fable grew around Stubbs that he was elected by write-in vote over human opponents for the job of Mayor but his appointment seemed to be more by social consensus than electoral ritual.
There existed a campaign in 2012 to elect Stubbs for President under the banner of the Demeowcatic Repurrblican Party and with a dog named Lucy Lou as his VP. Unfortunately it seems Facebook was the main venue for electioneering information and a good deal of it has been erased. However, according to the Catsparella website, Lucy Lou was indeed the running-mate.
At the same time Stubbs was running for President, he was also the VP on the Felines First Party ticket with Morris the Cat of 9Lives fame. I'm not making this up.
Anyway, Lucy Lou was the canine mayor of unincorporated Rabbit Hash, Ky. in much the same honorary manner as Stubbs in Talkeetna. In the late 1990s, shortly after Stubbs assumed office, the Kentucky community "elected" a dog as their mayor as a fundraiser, a dollar per ballot and a voter could vote as many times as they wanted. One waggish (get it?) reporter commented the election was "ostensibly modeled after the real mayoral elections held in Chicago."
Lucy Lou, a beautiful border collie, became the third canine Mayor of Rabbit Hash in 2008, defeating "15 other candidates including a cat, an opossum and a human."
Lucy Lou stepped down from her mayoral duties in 2016 and entered the Presidential race in the same year, filing with the FEC Dec. 30, 2015 under the name Lucy Lou Kayser. During her campaign announcement she was adorned with a tutu.
Election history:
2008-2016 - Mayor of Rabbit Hash, Ky. (honorary)
2016 - US President (Independent) - defeated
Other occupations: dog
Buried: ?
Notes:
The chronology here is foggy, but it appears Stubbs' Presidential campaign was already well under way when he also became Morris the Cat's VP.
