To Eric Mays, having Giggles the Pig as an opponent in the campaign for mayor of Flint, Michigan is no laughing matter.

And Mays, a black city councilman, believes the adorable little squealer is actually part of a racist plot to make him look bad.

“(Michael) Ewing is a white person calling two black people less than a pig,” Mays says of the man who is trying to get the nearly one-year-old pig on the ballot for mayor.

Chaos ensued when the Flint city clerk announced the wrong deadline for petitions to be submitted to be eligible to seek the office.

No candidate, including Mays, submitted enough valid signatures by the actual April 21st deadline.

Mays says Giggles is being backed by local criminal defense attorney Michael Ewing. Giggles even has his own Facebook page detailing his campaign appearances.

Ewing disputed Mays’ accusations of racism.

“How do you respond to something so silly?” Ewing wondered. “Saying that I’m somehow racist is absurd.”

But Mays apparently really feels threatened by little Giggles.

“I’m saying he could have just called us the N-word,” Mays says, doubling down on his attacks on Ewing.

Another candidate wannabe, Councilman Wantwaz Davis, jumped onto the verbal pig pile, too, after Ewing brought attention to two prospective candidates’ criminal records.

“If he feels that way then he needs to stop being a defense attorney,” according to Davis.

For now, Giggles’ campaign platform is unclear, other than vowing to put the pork back in government.

Ewing, meanwhile, says Giggles’ candidacy is not intended to be a joke, but rather to get people to take the city’s problems seriously.

“I don’t want to turn it into a laughingstock,” Ewing tells Mlive. “I don’t know how else to get people to pay attention.”

And Mays is at least one candidate taking the Giggles threat seriously.

“I’ll debate him and his pig in public any day of the week,” Mays says, referring to Ewing.