Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown Wins Re-Election In Write-In Campaign Beating Progressive India Walton
Democrat Byron Brown lost his party’s nomination earlier this year to Democratic socialist and community activist, India Walton, which led him to mount a write-in re-election campaign. Brown has been the Mayor of Buffalo since 2005, and was not ready to give up his title just yet. On Tuesday night, he did just that defeating Walton as a write-in candidate for his own job. “At the very beginning, they said we couldn’t win, it was impossible to win as a write-in. But you can’t ever count a Buffalonian out,” the incumbent said in his victory speech. Walton did not count herself out either, though...