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DCG posted: " Morris the Cat running for mayor of Mexican town NY Daily
News: This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day
and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes. Morris, a black-and-white
kitten with orange eyes, is running" Respond to this post by replying
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*Morris the Cat running for mayor of Mexican town *
NY Daily
News<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/morris-cat-running-mayor-mexican-town-article-1.1373751>:
This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day
and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes.
*Morris, a black-and-white kitten with orange eyes, is running for mayor
of Xalapa* in eastern Mexico with the campaign slogan *"Tired of Voting
for Rats? Vote for a Cat."* And he is attracting tens of thousands of
politician-weary, two-legged supporters on social media.
*"He sleeps almost all day and does nothing, and that fits the profile of
a politician,"* said 35-year-old office worker Sergio Camacho, who adopted
the 10-month-old feline last year.
Put forth as candidate by Camacho and a group of friends* after they
became disillusioned with the empty promises of politicians*, Morris'
candidacy has resonated across Mexico, where citizens frustrated with human
candidates are nominating their pets and farm animals to run in July 7
elections being held in 14 states.
Also running for mayor are "Chon the Donkey" in the border city of Ciudad
Juarez, "Tina the Chicken" in Tepic, the capital of the Pacific coast state
of Nayarit, "Maya the Cat" in the city of Puebla and "Tintan the Dog" in
Oaxaca City, though their campaigns are not as well organized as that of
Morris.
*Politicians repeatedly rank at the bottom of polls about citizens' trust
in institutions.* A survey last year by Mitofsky polling agency ranking
Mexicans' trust in 15 institutions put politicians and government officials
among the bottom five. Universities and the Catholic Church were the top
two, respectively.
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Morris' cuteness, the clever campaign and promises to donate money
collected from the sales of campaign stickers and T-shirts to an animal
shelter has attracted cat lovers, but Camacho said *most of his supporters
are citizens tired of corrupt politicians and fraudulent elections*.
"Morris has been a catalyst to show the discontent that exists in
our society," Camacho said. "Our message from the beginning has been`if
none of the candidates represent you, vote for the cat' and it seems
people are responding to that."
Xalapa, a university city of 450,000 people, is the capital of the
Gulf coast state of Veracruz, where residents have in last two years been
beleaguered by drug violence, corruption scandals and the killings of at
least nine reporters and photojournalists.
During last year's presidential election, a video posted on social
networks showed a massive warehouse in Veracruz stuffed with election
give-away groceries. Authorities also seized $1.9 million in wads of cash
found when police decided to search passengers of a private plane arriving
from Veracruz to Toluca, the capital of the home state of now-President
Enrique Pena Nieto. Officials later said they had found no wrongdoing and
the money was returned.
Giovanna Mazzotti, a 48-year-old university professor from the city of
bright colonial buildings and steep streets, said she supports Morris'
campaign and plans to go to a party for him being held Friday. The
candidate is not expected to attend.
"In this state there is no rule of law, there is no respect for
human rights, there are no institutions," Mazzotti said. "*It's great that
this campaign is showing the fiction in our elections.* Every three years
politicians laugh at us, it's good to laugh at them a bit, too."
Morris has a website, a Twitter account and a Facebook page with more than
115,000 `likes,' *that makes him more popular in social networks than the
five human mayoral contenders*. Americo Zuniga, the candidate for the
ruling party who is leading in election polls, had 33,000 Facebook `likes'
as of Friday.
His website has a collection of memes that picture Morris yawning while
describing his "ample legislative experience," an image that mirrors
photographs of lawmakers sleeping during congressional sessions.
Morris' campaign managers are asking supporters to write-in `Morris' or
draw a cat's face on the ballot to send a message to authorities, who are
not taking the cat's growing popularity lightly.
Members of the Electoral Institute of Veracruz this week called on voters
not to waste their vote on a cat. "We are asking for people to participate
by voting for those citizens registered on the ballots," electoral
institute president Carolina Viveros told local media this week.
"Everything else is part of expressions happening in social media and I
respect that, but you have to vote for the registered candidates, please."
Morris also has international supporters. On Friday, the animal-welfare
group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wrote Morris
congratulating him for his campaign.
Stubbs, a cat that has been the honorary mayor for more than 15 years of
the sleepy Alaska town of Talkeetna, has shown support for Morris by
posting his fellow feline candidate's spot campaign on its Facebook page.
Heck, given the popularity of some of our politicians, I just might vote
for a kitteh!
DCG
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