Hank is a 10 year old cat who is running to be a US Senator. No, really. And even stranger, he appears to be coming in third for this race. Hank received enough write-in votes in the state of Virginia to even be considered and now they are petitioning the White House to request he receive an honorary status on the Senate floor.
A friend of mine and I had this little fantasy that our cats would battle for State Rep a few years back. She and I live in neighboring districts and thought this would be fun project to do to see how many signatures we could obtain to get them there. Both of our cats have human sounding names but we decided that we would probably get caught for fraudulent activity and didn’t pursue it. We actually never thought of doing a write-in campaign.
This is actually the funniest election news I have heard in a long time. Hank is a Maine Coon, and my cat, Simon is one too. He is quite the handsome cat too but I wonder how he will govern if he wins. Would he create “Hankcare” to allow universal access to vets? Would he promise a fish in every bowl? Would he legalize catnip? What exactly are the issues that Hank would work on? It’s a fun little fantasy and takes the stress out of all this Election Day related news of suppressed voting and voting irregularities that are going on in Philadelphia.
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