The English bulldog had never been featured prominently in West Virginia history, until now.
This photo provided by the West Virginia Legislature shows West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice 's English Bulldog, Babydog, depicted in this zoomed-in shot of a new mural unveiled at the West Virginia Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Thursday, June 20, 2024. had never been featured prominently in West Virginia history. It has now.
Justice, a Republican now running to succeed Manchin, has made Babydog a minor celebrity in West Virginia during his two terms as governor. “I was just as surprised, in my ways, as anyone,” he said Wednesday during a news briefing. “Really and truly, I wasn't a party to ... putting Babydog in the mural.”
Justice told reporters that Reid-Smith told him the dog in the mural was not necessarily Babydog, but her “20th grandma.” “In his remarks, he spoke at length about his own dog and said nothing about Governor Boreman,” Elliott wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “This total lack of respect for anything beyond himself is why he is wholly unfit to represent West Virginia in the United States Senate.”West Virginia's limestone state Capitol was designed by the renowned Cass Gilbert, the architect behind the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.
It was not until afterward that people started noticing the bulldog in shots of the murals shared on social media. And there was not much debate about whose dog it was.
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