[IntroduceMyself] + My 1st Post -- 3 Animals that ran for Political Office

Greetings & a Big Hidey-Ho, My new Steemian neighbors!!

My name is Duncan, I'm 33, and I've been working as a freelancer & internet marketer since late-2014. I spend most of my free time researching random and interesting topics, that range from: politics, history, conspiracies, funny stories, crazy inventions & innovations.. and pretty much everything in between.

Even in my free time, I strive to stay productive and not waste time, as life is much too short to waste time. By researching such topics in my free time, it allows me to constantly learn something new, keep my mind fresh, and keep the gears spinning.

But, although I do enjoy the time spent researching such topics & learning something new; for the past couple months I've felt that I've hit a point where I feel that I am actually wasting time. The feeling that I could be doing something more productive & constructive with that free time.

So, on my journey to find something new to do with this free time, I actually came across an ebook by @hopehuggs titled "Post 2 Profit".

For those not familiar, it's an in depth course on how to get started with Steemit, and goes into great detail on the Ins & Outs of the platform. If you're new to Steemit, or know of someone who is interested in getting started with Steemit, I would highly recommend checking it out.

It is in fact why I'm here today..
So a huge Thanks & Appreciation to @hopehuggs for that!

With that said, I originally picked up this course in hopes to just find a better way to utilize my time, but afterwards ended up with a much better idea.

Rather than completely scraping an activity that I love, I can actually continue to do what I enjoy on my free time. And to make it more productive & constructive, I now plan to come here and share with the Steemit community, all of the crazy, funny and interesting things that I learn through my research into random & crazy topics.

But, I didn't want to just come here and post about about complete randomness in an unorganized manner. I wanted to come up with some sort of plan of action. Some sort of theme.. And that's how Triple-Whammy! was born.

My plan is to take 3 of the most interesting subjects within the topic that I'm currently researching, and share those here with the Steemit community. So, every post from here on out will contain 3 short & interesting reads.
A 'Triple Whammy', if you will..

However, with my various online businesses that I'm currently involved with, my schedule is a bit tight right now. So shuffling tasks & projects around throughout my weekly schedule, I've come up with a plan of action that will allow me to post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, somewhere in the early afternoon hours (US time).

To give an idea of what I plan to bring to the Steemit community, I'd like to share my first post here..

So, without further ado, here is my very first post here on Steemit..

I hope that you enjoy, and that you'll scroll up & hit that Follow button
to catch the next Triple-Whammy!

In around 2011, corruption & drug violence had started sweeping through the city of Xalapa, Mexico. By the summer of 2013, residents were no doubt fed up with the nonsense, and often described the city of Xalapa as having 'no rule of law', and having 'no respect for human rights'. Fortunately for the residents of Xalapa, the time had come to elect a new mayor.

A man named Sergio Chamorro decided to enter his cat, Morris, as a candidate; since after all, anything other than the current mayor would be an improvement.

Sergio explained that his cat Morris would be perfectly well-suited for the political life, because he "sleeps all day, and does almost nothing". Aside from sleeping all day, Morris's campaign promise was to "donate all of his used kitty litter to fill potholes".

Morris's campaign slogan, "Tired of Voting for Rats? Vote for a Cat!", seemed to have resonated with a lot of people. As his Facebook Page was liked by more than 100k people, making his online-popularity sore beyond 5 of his other opponents.

After receiving about 12,000 votes, Morris was placed 4th out of 11 candidates. But, it just wasn't enough for Morris the Cat to claim his seat as Mayor of Xalapa..

Back in the 1950's, Sao Paulo, Brazil was quite the mess. Prices in general were way too high, there were issues with the sewers in suburbs, there was a shortage on meat & beans, etc.. And it didn't appear that anything was being done about any of it!

In October of 1959, it was election time for the City Council. Being fed up with the mess in Sao Paulo, a total of 540 people stepped up, and were competing for 45 council seats in the election. However, the residents of Sao Paulo didn't think highly of any of them.

At this time, there was a 4-year-old female rhinoceros named Cacareco. Cacareco was on loan from a zoo in Rio de Janeiro, and was a popular attraction at Sao Paulo's recently opened zoo. With the loan on Cacareco expiring soon, she was due to head back to Rio de Janeiro. It was then that someone had the idea of putting her on the ballot for City Council.

Cacareco ended up receiving around 100,000 votes, and winning in a landslide. In fact, her closest opponent had only brought in 10,079 votes. One of the party leaders decried the result as a joke, and said it was "a ridiculous vote for a ridiculous rhinoceros".

It's alleged that one candidate had even committed suicide over the catastrophic 'protest vote'.
In the end, Cacareco was disqualified by the election board.

If you thought that the other 2 were odd, then buckle up! 'Cause this one's just down-right bizarre..

Just across the Rio Grande from Mexico, there's a small town in West Texas call Lajitas. And in this town of Lajitas, they have a tradition of naming 'beer-drinking goats' as their Mayors!

Apparently, this tradition began in the 1970's when locals discovered a goat named Clay Henry that liked to drink beer. Clay Henry was a popular tourist attraction, and had even drank a 'cold one' with Willie Nelson once.

Clay Henry was elected Mayor in 1986, and apparently he liked to 'headbutt his constituents'.
He would drink about 40 beers a day, and was able to chug them by holding the bottles in his jaw, and tipping his head upward.

Clay Henry held office until 1992, and was killed in a fight with his son, Clay Henry Jr., (who also liked to drink beer).
The incident was described as a "drunken brawl over a female". After Clay Henry's death, he was stuffed and placed on display with a beer bottle tipped upright in his mouth.

After Clay Henry's demise, his beer-drinking son took over as mayor of Lajitas, until he died in 1996.

Clay Henry III was then elected as mayor in 2000.
In 2006, a crazy guy named Jim Bob Hargrove attacked & castrated Clay Henry III, because he was jealous of the mayor drinking beer on Sundays, when local laws prohibited the sale of alcohol on Sundays.

Clay Henry III ended up stepping down as mayor in 2008 after becoming ill.
The town of Lajitas then went several years without a goat mayor, until 2014 when Clay Moore Henry (a direct descendant of the original Clay Henry), was elected.

Clay Moore Henry is the first goat mayor of Lajitas -- that does Not drink beer!

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