Socialist candidate, stuns longtime incumbent in Buffalo mayor’s race.

[Deplorable Me]

India Walton stuns longtime incumbent in Buffalo mayoral primary. (Published 2021)

Ms. Walton, a progressive challenger running her first campaign, is on track to become the first socialist mayor of a big city in 60 years.

www.nytimes.com

1) Buffalo about to go full retard?

2) Was local election rigged?

 

[C3D]

Buffalo members, sell your houses now. It ain't going to be pretty.

 

[BuffNiag]

2) Was local election rigged?

I don’t think it was rigged at all.

1. People have had enough of Brown. He did himself no favors with recent school speed zone cameras.
2. Primary voters are completely apathetic. The winner knew this and leveraged it to her advantage. All she had to do was get friends and friends of friends to vote for her and she was in.
3. The Republican Party totally dropped the ball. The was an opportunity of a lifetime (literally) to install a R mayor for the first time in almost 60 years. All they had to do was field someone with a pulse and they had a very good chance of winning in Nov.

 

[Saltwater60]

I don’t think it was rigged at all.

1. People have had enough of Brown. He did himself no favors with recent school speed zone cameras.
2. Primary voters are completely apathetic. The winner knew this and leveraged it to her advantage. All she had to do was get friends and friends of friends to vote for her and she was in.
3. The Republican Party totally dropped the ball. The was an opportunity of a lifetime (literally) to install a R mayor for the first time in almost 60 years. All they had to do was field someone with a pulse and they had a very good chance of winning in Nov.

I’ll agree with 1 and 2 but no way was a Republican going to win Buffalo Mayoral election in November. I’ll even say most people hate Byron Brown and we’re very sick of him but they would check the D box over the R box any day of the week.

This begs the question on how Joe Biden got so many people out to vote for him. 21,000voted out of 250,000 people. That’s pretty sad.

 

[Modean]

Something isn’t right when 11k people are selecting the mayor in NY’s second largest city. How is there not a Republican candidate running against her in November???

Not at all surprising. In general, most can’t be bothered to vote in primaries, so only the activists turn out. Then the wing nut candidates get the nomination, and in a city like Buffalo, the “D” after your name ensures victory even if you do have Republicans running as well.

 

[BuffNiag]

I’ll agree with 1 and 2 but no way was a Republican going to win Buffalo Mayoral election in November. I’ll even say most people hate Byron Brown and we’re very sick of him but they would check the D box over the R box any day of the week.

This begs the question on how Joe Biden got so many people out to vote for him. 21,000voted out of 250,000 people. That’s pretty sad.

Wait until she starts speaking more about her platform. The majority of people do not want socialism. Even the stuff she was saying during brief victory speech last night was scary. Additionally, I would bet the entire law enforcement, firefighter and civil service contingent would vote against her, just for for the sake of keeping the status quo. Just wait until she appoints all of her fruit loop friends as commissioners.

At the very least, the Rs should have at least fielded a candidate.

 

[BuffNiag]

This whole thing reminds me of a high school class president election. Run on a platform of free sh1t and no rules for all, with no clue about the repercussions. I can’t wait to see this go down.

 

[holdover]

Never heard of her, This socialist came out of the shadows and crushed an extremely popular 4 time black mayor in his own back yard.

 

[tirwin1]

Never heard of her, This socialist came out of the shadows and crushed an extremely popular 4 time black mayor in his own back yard.

Had to be racism. Quick, more critical race studies in the schools, stat!

 

[FRB]

The Socialist / BLM / Sodomites with their anti police movement is much stronger in Buffalo than people think. Brown backing the police had much to do with this. Even this fool was there with her:

 

[SonOfSun]

Issues | India Walton for Masten, NY

indiawalton.com

Short-Term Policy Goals (First 100 Days):

• Remove police from responding to most mental health calls and work with County and BPD leaders to establish a new response to crisis mental health calls that utilizes mental health professionals.
• End enforcement of low-level drug possession by directing police not to arrest people for simple possession of a small amount of drugs and paraphernalia like syringes.
• Order the Law Department to conduct a full review of the city's ability to discipline and fire bad police officers, and to defend disciplinary decisions to the fullest possible extent.
• Make police data public to the extent allowed by law including data on racial disparities in stops and arrests, officer disciplinary records, the number of officers who live outside the city, and an inventory of weapons and military equipment owned by BPD.

Short-Term Policy Goals (First 100 Days):

• Declare Buffalo a sanctuary city
• End BPD cooperation with ICE.

 

[Modean]

Issues | India Walton for Masten, NY

indiawalton.com

Short-Term Policy Goals (First 100 Days):

• Remove police from responding to most mental health calls and work with County and BPD leaders to establish a new response to crisis mental health calls that utilizes mental health professionals.
• End enforcement of low-level drug possession by directing police not to arrest people for simple possession of a small amount of drugs and paraphernalia like syringes.
• Order the Law Department to conduct a full review of the city's ability to discipline and fire bad police officers, and to defend disciplinary decisions to the fullest possible extent.
• Make police data public to the extent allowed by law including data on racial disparities in stops and arrests, officer disciplinary records, the number of officers who live outside the city, and an inventory of weapons and military equipment owned by BPD.

Short-Term Policy Goals (First 100 Days):

• Declare Buffalo a sanctuary city
• End BPD cooperation with ICE.

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[SonOfSun]

This begs the question on how Joe Biden got so many people out to vote for him. 21,000voted out of 250,000 people. That’s pretty sad.

A few things. In areas where there is basically one party domination of D or R, the primary is the "real" election. This by the way is why I'm registered as a Democrat despite being more independent. Where I live the Democrat *always* wins, so by being registered as a Democrat I get to vote in the primary to pick the less crazy Democrat (ie. the one that is NOT a "Democratic Socialist"). Also, because it's a primary and less people vote in them, my vote has more power, relatively speaking.

Which also brings up the fact that way less people vote in primaries than the general elections. 21k/250k is a primary level turnout. The 2020 presidential election was a referendum on Trump, Biden had a good strategy of just stay out of the limelight, let Trump be Trump, and use the public's dislike of Trump to win. And it worked beautifully. I'm of the opinion that if Biden campaigned more then he would have lost.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Voters beware, you get the shit you vote for.

 

[Saltwater60]

Wait until she starts speaking more about her platform. The majority of people do not want socialism. Even the stuff she was saying during brief victory speech last night was scary. Additionally, I would bet the entire law enforcement, firefighter and civil service contingent would vote against her, just for for the sake of keeping the status quo. Just wait until she appoints all of her fruit loop friends as commissioners.

At the very least, the Rs should have at least fielded a candidate.

I’ll agree with them putting forth a candidate but I’m sure the crunched the numbers and think it’s not worth it.
As for most others not wanting her policies we’ve seen this a good bit recently where democrats have been replaced with socialists. She made no mistake about saying she was socialist. I tend to think the average citizen in Buffalo wants to push the city further left. Maybe they do t realize what they will do but people feel BB failed them and was just a pawn. He’s a very lack luster mayor and shows little emotion or energy.
I’ll also agree the majority of people in the USA don’t want socialism but that doesn’t mean that the majority of the people in Buffalo dont or the majority of people that voted in the primary don’t.
Time will tell and maybe a third party candidate will run against her and show promise. Time will tell.

 

[Saltwater60]

This whole thing reminds me of a high school class president election. Run on a platform of free sh1t and no rules for all, with no clue about the repercussions. I can’t wait to see this go down.

We’re watching it nationally right now. That was Biden’s platform that he is trying to implement right now.

 

[Saltwater60]

Issues | India Walton for Masten, NY

indiawalton.com

Short-Term Policy Goals (First 100 Days):

• Remove police from responding to most mental health calls and work with County and BPD leaders to establish a new response to crisis mental health calls that utilizes mental health professionals.
• End enforcement of low-level drug possession by directing police not to arrest people for simple possession of a small amount of drugs and paraphernalia like syringes.
• Order the Law Department to conduct a full review of the city's ability to discipline and fire bad police officers, and to defend disciplinary decisions to the fullest possible extent.
• Make police data public to the extent allowed by law including data on racial disparities in stops and arrests, officer disciplinary records, the number of officers who live outside the city, and an inventory of weapons and military equipment owned by BPD.

Short-Term Policy Goals (First 100 Days):

• Declare Buffalo a sanctuary city
• End BPD cooperation with ICE.

Essentially Portland and Seattle then.

 

[SonOfSun]

We’re watching it nationally right now. That was Biden’s platform that he is trying to implement right now.

Trying but failing, just like I predicted. I got the two big things I wanted out of election 2020:

• No more Trump. Check.
• Manchin and Sinema keeping the really left crazies from passing garbage. Check.

 

[spat]

Trying but failing, just like I predicted. I got the two big things I wanted out of election 2020:

• No more Trump. Check.
• Manchin and Sinema keeping the really left crazies from passing garbage. Check.

So, you are *happier* with Biden over Trump ?

In what possible way is he better ?

 

[BuffNiag]

We’re watching it nationally right now. That was Biden’s platform that he is trying to implement right now.

She is going to make Biden look like Ron Paul. There are very few politicians at this level and higher that are self-proclaimed socialists.

 

[Tinman]

So who is she going to run against in the general election?

 

[BuffNiag]

So who is she going to run against in the general election?

No one. The only possible way for her to lose is write ins. All deadlines have passed for other options.

 

[Deplorable Me]

No one. The only possible way for her to lose is write ins. All deadlines have passed for other options.

Time to run a bootleg underground campaign.

 

[Modean]

So, you are *happier* with Biden over Trump ?

In what possible way is he better ?

No more mean tweets.

 

[BuffNiag]

Time to run a bootleg underground campaign.

Well, that's kinda what she did.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Well, that's kinda what she did.

Find some non descript Buffalo resident in a coma and elect them via write in.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Hilarious. Buffalo is so screwed. If you live in the city limits move ASAP.




A few thoughts.


Buffalo is about to become "Portland east"

I live way too close to buffalo.

Unintented consequences. I didn't like brown but also didn't hate him. All things considered he was a "moderate" urban democrat by today standards. What happens next will be something to behold. The city is going to become way less attractive for suburbanites to venture into to spend money. Buffalo just got way less attractive.

 

[spat]

No more mean tweets.

I see that as another downside.


Those tweets were single handedly responsible for keeping the broadcast news industry solvent.


Look what happened to CNN when they stopped. They really *need* him back on the platform if they want to survive.


Plus, they were more entertaining than anything to come out of Hollywood in years...

 

[Deplorable Me]

Hilarious. Buffalo is so screwed. If you live in the city limits move ASAP.




A few thoughts.


Buffalo is about to become "Portland east"

I live way too close to buffalo.

Unintented consequences. I didn't like brown but also didn't hate him. All things considered he was a "moderate" urban democrat by today standards. What happens next will be something to behold. The city is going to become way less attractive for suburbanites to venture into to spend money. Buffalo just got way less attractive.

Last year Buffalo problems were spilling out to my son's neighborhood in Cheektowaga. Police scanner was busy chasing perps down Walden near Cabelas and Galleria. I spent a night or two sleeping on his couch.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Last year Buffalo problems were spilling out to my son's neighborhood in Cheektowaga. Police scanner was busy chasing perps down Walden near Cabelas and Galleria. I spent a night or two sleeping on his couch.

For sure. I remember the events of then. I also remember all the rumors antifa was going to venture into the suburbs to cause trouble