4-year-old mayor is re-elected in northern Minn.

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DORSET, Minn. (AP) — A 4-year-old has been re-elected as mayor of the tiny tourist town of Dorset in northern Minnesota.

Robert "Bobby" Tufts' name was picked Sunday during annual Taste of Dorset festival.

Bobby was only 3 when he won election last year as mayor of Dorset (population 22 to 28, depending on whether the minister and his family are in town).

His mother, Emma Tufts, said she and her son got choked up when his name was pulled for re-election Sunday.

Emma Tufts said her son plans to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Red River Valley in Fargo, N.D., and a new welcome sign for Dorset, which has no formal city government.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4-year-old-mayor-re-elected-northern-minn

[roamer65]

1. He sounds a lot more grown up than the House pukes.

Sounds like a little guy with a big heart.

[longship]

2. The mayor's traffic safety program has cut Big Wheel collisions by 300%!

And no pedestrians have been run over by Big Wheels during the mayor's tenure.

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3. Yeah but they still have a problem with reading comics while riding big wheels

Hopefully he will address that

[shenmue]

4. Congress could use some naptime and apple juice

'Specially the House Repubs.

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5. That might make boehner cry, and guessing his juice would be juiced up

[niyad]

6. could we borrow him, pretty please? would be a VAST improvement over the entitled, egotistical

jerk currently holed up in the mayor's office.