University Daily Kansan / Friday. October 31, 1986
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Fans gain support for favorite Frog
By NANCY BARRE
Staff writer
A dead but well-preserved frog, a person in a green frog costume and about 10 people dressed in white T-shirts emblazoned with frog emblems campained on campus yesterday for a frog who is running for public office.
The group stumped in front of the Kansas Union and on Jayhawk Boulevard for Agnes T. Frog, a write-in candidate for the Douglas County Commission's 1st District seat.
Although Agnes has not yet made a public appearance in her campaign against Nancy Hiebert, the incumbent Democratic commissioner; her support have generated widespread media attention.
Agnes entered the race against Hiebert, who was running unopposed, because Agnes is against Hiebert's support of a proposed highway bypass south of Lawrence.
The proposed highway would run through the middle of Agnes' home, said John Simmons, collections manager at the KU Museum of Natural History. (It will be a party, the Committee to Elect a Trug Amphibian.)
The road would run through the middle of the Baker Wetlands, south of 31st Street and east of K-Mart, 3106 Iowa St. which serves as the natural habitat for most of the dog, hog, and other members of her endangered species.
Simmons said he had heard Reuters press service had picked up the story and was running it in Europe. He said that a Wall Street Journal radio station in London had broadcast radio stations in other states had mentioned Asnes.
Simmons and 40 other people on the election committee have collected more than $1,000 and have attracted national media attention, even though the campaign started only last week.
lecting money and signatures from passers-by in front of the Kansas Union. Among her supporters is a close relative, a dead frog in a jar named Butch, who Simmons said sacrificed his life for the campaign.
Agnes, who remained in the Wetlands yesterday to drum up support in the frog community, couldn't be reached for comment. But in a prepared statement, she sounded optimistic.
Patty Jaimes, Douglas County clerk, said that even if Agnes defeated Hiebert, Agnes couldn't win because the county doesn't count or announce votes cast for fictitious characters.
"First of all, my dad pill assures Douglas Countians a choice in what I expect to be a close election." Agnes said. "Second, it assures them a voice, for I pledge to make the totals nubile."
Simmons and other Agnes supporters were col-
Hiebert said she wouldn't be very interested in
learning the total number of votes cast for Agnes.
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