Groundhog-gate!

[brooklynite]

Crain's New York Business:

Her shadow was one of the last things she saw.

The groundhog that escaped Mayor Bill de Blasio's grasp during this year's Staten Island Zoo Groundhog Day ceremony died a week after the fall.

But the rodent, which had just predicted six more weeks of winter before tumbling several feet from the mayor's hands, was not the zoo's famed Staten Island Chuck, but rather a stand-in named Charlotte.

Moreover, the zoo did not notify the mayor's office of the death, which was first reported by The New York Post. The story electrified social media on Thursday, prompting a flood of Twitter jokes about a #Groundhoghazi cover-up and Mr. De Blasio's possible impeachment.

[FSogol]

1. Aren't groundhogs usually referred to as Ground pork?

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