Thursday, August 28, 2008 Staff Report Willie Bean, the Fairhope Labrador retriever who “ran” as a candidate for mayor in Fairhope, is back on the campaign trail as city runoffs approach. The dog won 107 more “votes” than the two leading mayoral candidates combined, so efforts to raise funds for the Baldwin Animal Rescue Center [...]
How else to explain the sensation surrounding Willie, whose improbable run for mayor of this Alabama coastal town has become a national phenomenon? The candidate took the publicity in stride, napping on the kitchen floor and later chasing a tennis ball in his backyard. Willie Bean Roscoe P. Coltrane is a 7-year-old yellow Labrador retriever.
The buzz around Fairhope (and beyond) is the mayoral campaign of Willie Bean, the big yeller dog owned by Tress Turner at the Coffee Loft. As Vince Kilborn said in the Press-Register story by Virginia Bridges, “He doesn’t have any skeletons in his closet. He’s eaten them all.” I wonder if any of the other 7 candidates can claim as much?
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