Gov race takes an early turn towards the bizarre

Christy Mihos, independant candidate for governor, has launched a 'canine coordinator' program and hopes to recruit a dog from each of the 351 towns in Massachusetts. The effort is led by Regan Mihos, Christy's Yorkshire Terrier.

Reagan is very worried when walking in Boston where his pals have been electrocuted. Reagan hates “no dogs allowed” signs and wishes dogs had equal rights, similar to his dad’s view that all humans should have equal rights.

Okay. So when I made some cracks about the Mihos website last week, it was kind of tongue-in-cheek. After all, not everyone cares about or notices website design, and ultimately it's something that the candidate isn't directly responsible for.

But this is something else entirely. When Mihos really only has one other issue articulated on his website (property tax restructuring), what could say "let them eat cake" more than a page dedicated to dogs -- particularly the electrocuted dogs of rich downtown loft-dwellers?

Reagan, are those buoys in the picture from daddy's yacht?

Here's an equal rights issue for you, Christy: gay marriage. None of the other candidates wants to touch the issue with a ten foot pole. Where do you stand on that? How about immigration? That's a big topic.

Really, I was hoping he'd be able to hold it together long enough to draw off some votes from the right, but I see this as a foreshadowing of early withdrawal. Time will tell.

(via this pithy globe article)

[Update: I should point out that I have a lot of sympathy towards the dogs who were killed, and their owners. It's a broad public safety issue. But this just begs for ridicule. While standing on its hind legs.]