India Walton Wins Buffalo, NY Mayoral Primary, Likely to Be First Socialist Mayor in a Major U.S. City Since 1960

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via NYTimes

A progressive challenger running her first campaign beat Buffalo's four-term Democratic mayor in a primary upset on Tuesday that could upend the political landscape in New York's second-biggest city and signal the strength of the party's left wing.

The challenger, India B. Walton, is a nurse and community activist who ran with the support of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Working Families Party. When The Associated Press called the race Wednesday morning, Ms. Walton was leading Byron Brown, a longtime member of the Democratic establishment, by 7 percentage points, or about 1,500 votes, with all of the in-person ballots counted.

Should Ms. Walton, 38, triumph in the general election November — a likely result in heavily Democratic Buffalo — she would be the first socialist mayor of a major American city since 1960, when Frank P. Zeidler stepped down as Milwaukee's mayor. She would also be the first female mayor in Buffalo's history.

Ms. Walton celebrated her victory in a jubilant call to her mother that was captured on video, yelling, "Mommy, I won. Mommy, I'm the mayor of Buffalo. Well, not until January, but, yeah."

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Hey, good for Buffalo. That's like the first "good news" article I've read about Buffalo in forever.

 

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Buffalo, NY poised to have first Socialist Mayor in 60+ Years News

What other country do you think "Buffalo, NY" with a photo of the Statue of Liberty right in the OP do you think someone would mistake this for? lol

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