Butterscotch, or "Butty," as the candidates affectionately call him, resides in Ohio, where his job is to coordinate the National Office of Interspecies Relations. He has proven especially effective in persuading human voters to defect from the business of "politics as usual" to support the Hamster For President platform.

Butty is also in touch with a variety of other wild and tame creatures who desperately long to see the human political establishment toppled - including squirrels, birds, bats, bears, and an almost-endless assortment of household pets.