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Prairie Dog, Wyo., Augtember '07 (Special Dispatch) – Labor leaders here expressed themselves today as being in favor of the plank to make "Ground-Hog Day" a national holiday, a move endorsed by Pogo supporters. "If the possum becalms the President of the Untied States, it will be our bounden duty to see to it that animals everywhere come into their own," said one operator of seventy five prairie-dog hills employing an estimated 346 workers.

Asked if he had not meant "becomes" instead of "becalms", the Prairie Dog Operator said, "No Comment."

An undercurrent of revolt, however, was seen by some observers in the fact that the working prairie dog had not been consulted on the matter. "We work all year long," said one who was incapable of identifying himself, "and the Ground-Hogs sleep. They get up and do one day’s work, which most of the time scares them half to death, and they get a day named after them. In fact they are now being told that they can have THAT day off. When we ask for a day off all we get is the Mary Haha. We are told we can go whistle."

On the other hand, Pogo Poll Takers have reported that Ground-Hog enthusiasts have set to music the old refrain, "How much wood would a would wood would if a wood chuck chuck wood would." Ground-Hogs, the wakeful ones, have indicated that the labor problem, which the new move for a National Holiday brings up, is a formidable one.

"We don’t get paid for holidays," explained one. "We sleep through Christmas and January first, both usually considered holidays. We don’t get them off. We work right on through. Then at the end of our hitch, we get up to round up the winter’s work. If it’s a nice bright day and we see a shadow, boom, we get another six weeks work. If it’s raining, we get laid off with two weeks notice. Do you call that fair? And now they want to take our last day’s pay away, besides rigging it so that the layoff comes about automatically. Who are these lemmings that go around proposing things? Why don’t they swim back where they came from? They got labor problems of their own. If we need a holiday, we take Christmas at double time."

Essentially this protest has been drafted and is being sent to Pogo headquarters. The Presidential hopeful said that the whole thing certainly made a man think. Pressed on what he was thinking about, the Possum candidate referred the matter to an aide.

So what's the possum connection?