It’s weird to me that there are parties associated with Mayoral candidates. Is this true for all cities in Murca?
No but kind of yes, there are partisan elections and non partisan elections. The Hatch Act (which applies to every federal employee including a letter carrier) states they cannot be involved in any partisan elections. Which currently means almost every election now.
Non partisan elections used to be much more common in the past, but the major parties over the years (mostly Republicans) pushed it to where there are very few non partisan elections. Even school committee seat elections in my town are partisan, and because of that my local letter carrier couldn’t participate even with their massive involvement in the community.
Not all. The mayor of Dallas does not represent a party. Which made it curious when the current mayor switched from a Democrat to a Republican.
So they can run as independents but typically they’re in some party or other. So strange to me since they should be locally-focused.
Yes, effectively every office from Sheriff to even judges. If there is an election the candidates list their party affiliation. Sometimes resulting in funny stuff like this: https://apnews.com/article/e1580367018108b09755dfb994395c0a
Lol, thanks for sharing that
Near me, city council positions are all at-large, and political affiliations, if any, aren’t mentioned anywhere, not in promotional materials or on campaign websites.
Now do this for all Democratic primaries.
He has vowed to run as an independent so he could still win, because the general election will not be ranked choice.
Yeah, but I don’t see Cuomo winning over Mamdani. Mamdani beat Cuomo on first round voting and likely was going to pick up many second+ round votes.
The only way Cuomo wins is if he can steal a lot of Adams’s votes, which I doubt.
If Mamdani loses, there’s a possibility that he could run on the Working Families Party line in the general election — though Gripper said the New York WFP has not decided whether they’ll run a candidate on their line in the general election and will make a decision after the final primary results come in.
Please do this if it comes to it.
No need. Zohran killed it, he probably wins by double digits in round 2
