Minnesota town selects four-year-old mayor

He's a fisherman and a scholar, but the new mayor of Dorset, Minnesota, isn't studying city bylaws — he's learning how to tie his shoes and count by twos.

A four-year-old boy named Robert Tufts, though known as Bobbie, was selected as Dorset's mayor by raffle, according to the local television station WCCO.

Despite his size, Tufts leads with charisma.

He walks, sings and dances, carrying his authoritative walking stick, while chatting with a WCCO reporter in the town where he's recently taken the office he'll hold until next year.

The reporter asks if he has any budget meetings planned for that day. There won't be any council debates for this mayor, it seems, but maybe a few fishing trips or visits with his girlfriend, who he says is named Sophia.

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This chatty, energetic mayor certainly won't have any problem making public speeches. However, he won't need to make announcements — or decisions — because local businesses actually manage the town's operations, according to the New York Daily News.

Dorset has a population of 22, according to the Dorset Daily Bugle, though that same article concocts an elaborate tale about millions of people hiding just outside the downtown core, in an imaginary metro area with an airport and a stadium named after the town.

It's a small town with a big imagination.

As big, perhaps, as the town of Talkeetna, Alaska, who decided that a cat was most qualified to be mayor. Stubbs the short-tailed cat has run the town for 15 years.

May you have the same success, mayor Tufts.