Lobo, a donkey in Grand Forks is making a run within the metropolis’s mayoral election
“As a joke, I put it on Fb, ‘What do you consider Lobo for Mayor?’ Properly the feedback are nonetheless coming in, some individuals say ‘I’ll get behind Lobo’ or ‘I hope he takes a chunk out of crime,’ it goes on and on,” mentioned his proprietor and Marketing campaign Supervisor Lorraine O’Connor.
“Some individuals need him to go all the best way to Ottawa to the (Home of Commons) there however I inform him he has to start out on the backside and work his approach up.”
Lobo’s official nomination shall be submitted by the tip of the week by his proprietor in any other case generally known as his marketing campaign supervisor.
Together with his poised {and professional} angle, O’Connor says he’d be an ideal match to run the town of roughly 4,000 individuals.
“He observes every part and he’s not fast to leap into it, he waits, he research he’s decide of character,” mentioned O’Connor.
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Whereas it’s too early to know who Lobo shall be operating towards within the race for Mayor, his marketing campaign supervisor is hopeful he’ll come out with a win.
“We now have a very good probability of profitable, sure we do I feel there’s just one different particular person operating for Mayor probably two. Lobos obtained probability.”
Final winter, Lobo was caught on digital camera shovelling his proprietor’s driveway.
“I feel it was our first snow and he likes to do something I’m doing and I put my shovel down and he picked it up,” mentioned O’Connor.
“He was pushing the place I had already shovelled snow however he didn’t wish to give me the shovel again so I simply let him go along with it.”
The mayoral election is scheduled for this October.
