Dog Runs For Mayor of Fairhope, Alabama

HA! I love this woman’s sense of humor.  Sick of the local political scene, Tress Turner, a local coffee shop manager put her 7 year old labrador into the local mayoral race. “Wille Bean Roscoe P. Coltrane is a 7-year-old yellow Labrador retriever whose owner has taken a satirical poke at politics by launching the pooch into the race.”

Apparently Wille isn’t the only dog to run for higher office.  “In 2004, Rabbit Hash, Ky., elected Junior Cochran, a black Lab, as mayor. It was the second canine elected to lead the small Northern Kentucky town, according to the town’s Web site. The first was a mutt named Goofy Borneman, according to Laurie Lamblin, a resident and employee of the town’s historic general store.”