Family pushes their dog as next Illinois governor

[December 18, 2008]  (AP)  Questions have been dogging Illinois ever since Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested last week on corruption charges. Now a California couple says the answer to all the state's woes may, in fact, be a dog. Their dog.

Michael Sunday and his family have launched an Internet campaign touting their 14-year-old border collie named Scuba as the next governor of the state.

Sunday wonders if Scuba -- who because she's deaf certainly wouldn't hear calls for her to step down -- wouldn't do any worse than Blagojevich.

Sunday really doesn't think Scuba has a shot. But the way he sees it, Scuba -- who also has trouble seeing because of cataracts -- couldn't do any worse than Blagojevich.

[Associated Press]

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