Buffalo Appears to Have Elected a Socialist Mayor in Big Upset Over 4-Term Incumbent |
Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=37378"><span class="small">Peter Weber, The Week</span></a> |
Wednesday, 23 June 2021 08:30 |
Weber writes: "Assuming India Walton keeps her lead, she is the presumptive mayor-elect."
Buffalo Appears to Have Elected a Socialist Mayor in Big Upset Over 4-Term Incumbent23 June 21
Assuming Walton keeps her lead, she is the presumptive mayor-elect. Buffalo hasn't picked a Republican mayor since the Kennedy administration, and Republicans didn't even field a candidate this year. Walton would be the first woman ever elected mayor in Buffalo as well as the first socialist, and Buffalo, with 260,000 people, is on track to be the largest city led by a socialist since Milwaukee's Frank Zeidler left office in 1960. Walton was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America and also the Working Families Party, an influential progressive third party in New York. Brown, a former state senator and recent chairman of the state Democratic Party, was first elected mayor in 2005. He is a close ally of embattled Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), appearing with him at four press briefings in the past few months, Politico notes, which is "twice as many as any other elected official in the state." |