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MANILA, Philippines – In the last days of the campaign period, Bacnotan, La Union council candidate Eddy Almodovar got the wrong end of the election rush, getting bitten by a dog while campaigning on Thursday, May 9.
Almodovar, also a broadcaster, was campaigning with his Liberal Party (LP) mates in Barangay Uya-oy for a council seat in Bacnotan when he was bit by a nursing dog in the thigh.
The broadcaster suffered minor injuries from the dog bite.
Dog bites on election candidates during campaign period is not entirely a new incident in the provinces of Northern Luzon.
In 2010, Baguio councilor Ed Bilog was bitten 3 times while doing a house-to-house campaign, forcing him to campaign with bodyguards in tail. – Rappler.com
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