Kentucky mayoral election goes to the dogs
A Kentucky mayoral election is going to the dogs.
A Kentucky mayoral election is going to the dogs this Election Day 2020.
In the northern Kentucky town of Rabbit Hash, a human is running against 13 dogs, a donkey, and several other animals.
And no, this isn’t a Parks and Rec episode – though it certainly sounds like it ought to be – but this really exists and is happening. (Blame 2020.)
Here at Dog O’Day, we learned about it through a CBS News package from Tulsa TV station KOTV/News on 6.
A rescued pit bull named Brynn currently reigns as the town’s mayor, while the election is more or less a fundraiser for the Rabbit Hash Historical Society.
Other dogs in the race include Diezel (possibly a pit bull mix), a hound named Jack Rabbit, a nap-crazy Golden Retriever named Poppy, and Higgins the donkey.
The leading candidate seems to be a French Bulldog named Wilbur.
The Wikipedia page for Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, states that the population is around 315, and that they have had canine mayors since 1998, when a dog of unknown parentage named Goofy assumed the role until his death in 2001. He was followed by Junior the black Labrador Retriever, who served from 2004 to 2008, and then came the Border Collie Lucy Lu, who presided over the town’s affairs from 2008 to 2016, where Brynn assumed the role.
Rabbit Hash is located in Boone County, about an hour and a half northeast of Louisville and 45 southwest of Cincinnati, Ohio.
While dogs don’t usually get involved in pawlitics (politics are basically the opposite of Dog Twitter), this is a great cause, and the low stakes adds significantly to the humor and goodness of it, unlike the actual people election taking place today. (Though Major Biden could become the first dog in the White House since Bo Obama the Portuguese Water Dog, becoming the latest in a long line of Presidential pets.)
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