<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of NBC's <i>Today</i> at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/bkus4q8">http://tinyurl.com/bkus4q8</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------------</div><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding-left: 15px; "></p><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 32px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: MuseoSans, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Pint-size politician: Mayor of Minnesota town is 4 years old</h1><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding-left: 15px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In his official capacity as mayor of his tiny Minnesota town, 4-year-old Bobby Tufts has enjoyed the benefits of his political power.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding-left: 15px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“His biggest perks are that he gets to give hugs and gets lots of free ice cream,’’ his mother, Emma Tufts, told <a href="http://TODAY.com">TODAY.com</a>.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding-left: 15px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bobby, who will appear on TODAY Saturday, became the mayor of Dorset, Minn., in August of 2012 when he was only 3 years old after his name was picked out of a hat at the annual “Taste of Dorset’’ festival. In the seasonal town of 26 residents, candidates pay the $1 ballot fee to literally throw their names in a hat during the yearly mayoral election at the festival. (The position is symbolic, because the town actually is run by a group of five local business owners.)</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding-left: 15px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“He ran an actual campaign,’’ his mother said. “All the waitresses at the Dorset House and some at Campaneros were wearing buttons with his campaign picture that said, ‘Vote for Bobby!’ and we had posters all over town. I don’t know how many votes he had in the hat, but a lot of the customers were voting him in.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding-left: 15px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="padding-left: 15px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bobby Tufts, the 4-year-old honorary mayor of Dorset, Minn., was given an oak plaque symbolizing the key to the city.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding-left: 15px; "><img src="cid:411FC38B-5445-4FBC-8D16-128260FBD9FB" alt="1C7407216-tdy-130516-tuft-mayor-1.blocks_devices_medium.jpg" id="411FC38B-5445-4FBC-8D16-128260FBD9FB" width="560" height="420"></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding-left: 15px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="padding-left: 15px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Bobby Tufts campaign poster.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding-left: 15px; "><img src="cid:DCF281A4-2EA0-4654-AE80-A84C2282BF2D" alt="1C7407217-tdy-130516-tuft-mayor-2.blocks_devices_small.jpg" id="DCF281A4-2EA0-4654-AE80-A84C2282BF2D" width="320" height="480"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> -------------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya at the Wingding, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>