Yes, this really happened.
Occupy Denver’s General Assembly voted on a leader and chose a three-year-old border collie named Shelby to head the group.
According to the group’s website, this was done after Denver Mayor Michael Hancock insisted that Occupy Denver choose leadership to deal with city and state officials.
An uploader on YouTube said Shelby was elected because “she is more of a person than a corporation is and less corrupt than most people.” Shelby is the first elected “leader” of the Occupy protests.
Now, some may say they were “clever” by electing the dog as a slap in the face of the Mayor, but they also set themselves up for criticisms and jokes directed at them by electing a…dog.
The overall sentiment on our Facebook page seemed to be that the dog is the smartest one at the protest. Obviously, while trying to be edgy, they didn’t fully think it through.
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