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That rustling you might have heard in the weeds along Dow’s Lake on Wednesday morning was the sound of Darrel “Daffy” Duck answering the call of duty and throwing his straw hat into the ring for the mayor’s job.

The Duck for Mayor 2014 website went online Wednesday with biographical data and a few good-natured zingers at candidates and issues.

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Unfortunately, Daffy missed the registration deadline three Fridays ago, but he will issue “Campaign News Updates and ‘Duck Byte’ Policy Statements on a daily basis, Monday through Friday, right up to Election Day, with supplementary posts whenever the opportunity presents itself,” according to communications director “Pebbles Flintstone Rubble.”

In a brief telephone interview, a masculine sounding “Pebbles” said the Daffy campaign had a loose group of “advisers”, including former reporters and standup comics, among others.

Pebbles also acknowledged some resemblance to Toronto’s popular Duck for Mayor site, which features longish videos of the candidate, Mallard Chandler, in action.

“They’re completely different,” Pebbles insisted. “He’s a mallard, of course, and Daffy’s a North American black duck. And a classic.”

The fowl hits some crowd favourites in his early promises.

“I’ll fill the potholes with depleted uranium if that’s what it takes to fill ’em once and for all! If we have to have the O Train, I’ll spearhead a creative deal with the Museum of Science and Tech to get those old locomotives of theirs out of mothballs, saving the city millions! And that’s just the beginning!”