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Playing the ‘Species Card’

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 [...]


Why We Respond To Dogs

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 [...]


Willie Bean returns to Fairhope campaign trail

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 [...]


Willie Bean in the Media – JD Crowe Illustrates 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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