
Throw Him A Bone: Meet the Mayor of Rabbit Hash
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For almost three decades, Rabbit Hash has elected a dog as mayor.
Coming in under four acres in size, Rabbit Hash is one of the smallest towns in Kentucky. The quaint Northern Kentucky enclave is also known for its unique politics. For almost three decades, the town has elected a dog as mayor.
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Throw Him A Bone: Meet the Mayor of Rabbit Hash
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Coming in under four acres in size, Rabbit Hash is one of the smallest towns in Kentucky. The quaint Northern Kentucky enclave is also known for its unique politics. For almost three decades, the town has elected a dog as mayor.
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Rabbit Hash is one of the smallest towns in Kentucky.
The quaint northern Kentucky enclave is also known for its unique politics.
As members of the community have high expectations for their elected officials.
For almost three decades now, Rabbit Hash has had dogs for mayors.
We were at Home Depot and he's got this vest that says, says Mayor Beard on it.
And this little kid saw his vest and the kid was like, Mom, look, Mayor Boone, he's a mayor.
And the mom didn't know who he was.
So she was like, son, that's probably just his name.
Dogs aren't mayors.
And, you know, we just kind of overheard that in the background.
Me and my wife were just gigglin There have been six dog mayors in 1998.
The communities in Boone County were looking to celebrate the bicentennial of the county.
And so they were all asked to come up with an effort.
And so some folks around here decided it would be good to have an official election for mayor.
It became very clear that no person around here was was fit for the job.
So people started running their dogs instead.
And once that happened, then there was no turning back.
Only a dog could do this.
We started off with a Facebook page for Boone and his Facebook page as Boone in the Blue Tick canal for Mayor Rabbit Hash.
We have updated it to mayor of RAM.
It has since he has won the election.
Have a beer at noon and vote for Boone.
But then we changed it to have a drink at noon and vote for Boone to include the kids, too, so they can come down and have an elite and vote for ban the ballot.
All you need is a dollar.
It could be a dollar bill.
We do accept check PayPal and Venmo, but you can vote as many times as you want for whoever you want.
It's just $1 a vote.
And so then all the money raised just goes to help preserve the town.
He's a great mayor.
Even before he was elected, he he did quite a quite a bit of work around here.
So the company I work for, structures, zinc, donated equipment.
We had other companies donate hauling of the equipment and hauling rock was brought in.
So me and my son came down and worked a week on our lunch hour and in the evenings to do the erosion protection and the town gave us the value of that erosion protection towards votes.
So that's what really put us over the top.
He's the one that really he was the one who really helped us clear that riverbank.
So the fact that you can see the river now and that maybe that tree isn't going to erode and fall into the river, that's because of Boone and the work of of his owner.
He is mayor for the next four years, and he is going to continue fundraising for RAM and Hash.
And he is also decided to dedicate these four years to raise money for other funds, too.
He was on national news.
And, you know, people come and there's a lady from California here to visit parents.
He came down because she heard about him just wanted to say hi one day.
So it's been really neat.
He has had a lot of fun and everybody knows him by his bay.
He's got the bark that everybody knows when he comes into town.
Mayor Boone Rabbit Hash is also home to one of the oldest general stores in the state and is recognized on the US Department of the Interior's National Register of Historic Places.
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