Political Skinny: Dog who ran for mayor of Fairhope enters New Orleans mayor’s race
By Press-Register staff
November 09, 2009, 9:02AM
Willie Bean, seen here in 2008, “announced” via his web site that he will be running for mayor of New Orleans.Willie Bean, the canine candidate who made an unsuccessful bid for mayor of [...]
Turner initially made 24 T-shirts for Willie Bean’s campaign; she said they sold in a day. Willie Bean has received letters from international fans and was a topic on the “Late Show with David Letterman.” A Willie Bean Web site has been launched and scores of campaign souvenirs have been sold, many at Saturday’s game.
Herb Kandel
“Letter to the Editor” in the Mobile Press-Register
As persuasive as Jeannie Paradise was in her letter of Aug. 6, “Willie Bean support alarming,” I find it reprehensible that she resorted to playing the species card in her contention that this runner would indeed be lacking in breeding to become “top dog,” so to speak.
To [...]
2008.08.22 17:21:49
The millions of dog owners, adopters and rescuers, members of the economic sector, writers and cartoonists have long
Why we respond to dogs
Regarding the clamor surrounding Willie Bean’s candidacy for mayor of Fairhope, it is a human tendency to joke about something we feel deeply about.
I submit that the overwhelming response is less politically motivated [...]
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 will resume [...]
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.
Just a few weeks ago, Fairhope was buzzing with alleged sightings of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The celebrity power couple of Fairhope might more likely be Paris Hilton and Willie Bean.
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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