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Today in Animals Running for Office: Giggles the Pig for mayor of Flint, MI
Giggles isn't your typical pig in the city. In fact, her owner has dreams that Giggles will run it.
In a bizarre turn of events that has already set the stage for the possibility of a blank mayoral ballot in Flint, local defense attorney Michael Ewing is trying to enter his pet pig, Giggles, into a race that could already consist of all write-in candidates.
While Ewing said Giggles would bring a term of calm and civility to the often tumultuous mayor's office, it isn't exactly clear if the nearly 1-year-old mini-pig can even legally run a write-in campaign.
If Giggles were somehow elected, Giggles would join the ranks of a handful of other animals, including dogs, cats and a beer-swilling billy goat, to be elected to leadership positions around the country.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/05/giggles_the_pig_enters_flint_m.html
