California Gubernatorial Candidate Sued Over 'Beast' Campaign Appearance – Courthouse News Service
Republican John Cox says he wants to make “big beastly changes” to the way “Pretty Boy” Gavin Newsom is running California. But his use of a Kodiak bear as a living prop at campaign events has drawn fire from an animal rights group. Screenshot from a John Cox for Governor ad posted to johncox.com. SAN DIEGO (CN) — Not content with just dubbing himself the “nicest, smartest beast you’ll ever meet in California,” gubernatorial candidate John Cox brought a Kodiak bear on the campaign trial — a violation of local and federal animal welfare laws, an animal rights group claims in ...