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		</div><p>A goat and a dog who were each elected mayor have helped raise money to renovate a community playground in Vermont, US.</p>
<p>The oddball idea of pet mayor elections to raise money to rehabilitate the playground and to help get local children civically involved came from a local town manager.</p>
<p>In 2018, Fair Haven residents elected Lincoln the goat as its honorary mayor.</p>
<p>Lincoln helped raise about 10,000 US dollars (£7,380) while the current mayor, Murfee, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel, has raised 20,000 (£14,770) dollars, town manager Joe Gunter told the Rutland Herald.</p>
<p>The town chipped in another 20,000 dollars.</p>
<p>Murfee’s owner, Linda Barker, said that when she was talked into having Murfee get involved in politics, she thought it would be easy to raise money through T-shirts. Then the pandemic struck.</p>
<p>So she shifted to masks. She has made nearly 1,000 of them, and will be making another round of them for Valentine’s Day. She raised more than 5,000 dollars (£3,690) from the masks and a similar amount from basket raffles.</p>
<p>The town was also recently awarded a 50,000-dollar (£36,930) grant from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, she said.</p>
<p>Ironically, the honorary mayor is not welcome on the playground. Ms Barker said there’s a “no dogs allowed” sign.</p>
<p>“Murfee is going to take that up with the town,” Ms Barker said with a chuckle. “He’s going to contest that.”</p>
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