Maybe she is trying to look like Sen Murray or Sen Cantwell.  Or maybe CisGovernor Inslee.  Or Senators  Feinstein,  Harris or Boxer.  Or any of the Multnomah commissioners.  If you are not female or a trusty puppy white male,  good luck getting elected dog catcher.  
I hear columnist and political cartoonist  Horsey is being proposed for dog catcher, in LA,   since he is now the self appointed expert.