{"id":391923,"date":"2026-11-03T09:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391923\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T09:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:36:40","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-four-legs-not-required-honorary-nyc-dog-mayor-election-underway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391923\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Four Legs Not Required Honorary Nyc Dog Mayor Election Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The race for the midterm elections may be getting most of the attention, but there&#8217;s another campaign underway, and it&#8217;s going to the dogs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/dogmayornyc.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Honorary NYC Dog Mayor election<\/a> is currently seeking its next canine leader.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Among the candidates is Brooklyn resident Doctor Computer Chips, a Shih Tzu who became a local favorite after having one of her legs amputated.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Chips&#8217; owner, Kelsey Murphy, says she hopes the dog&#8217;s campaign will inspire other owners of disabled pets.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;A lot of people see themselves in Chips, and that has been really cool to be a vehicle for that and to help people kind of get excited about something and love something that&#8217;s so cute,&#8221; Murphy said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The winner and runner-up will be crowned Honorary Dog Mayor and Deputy Honorary Dog Mayor, respectively, and will serve two-year terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race for the midterm elections may be getting most of the attention, but there&#8217;s another campaign underway,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-391923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}