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A local religious leader is mounting a third bid to become mayor of Albany.
Reverend Valerie Faust of Living Word Tabernacle has made two previous runs for mayor of Albany, in 2009 and 2013. She declared her candidacy in January. She says the prevailing mentality among city voters has to be broken. I saw that I could just use my script, my stump speech. And all of my concerns I used in 2009, I could still use today. And that was because nothing really changed. And some things had gotten worse, and seemingly getting worse. So I felt that this time of the was the real time this the time was to win this time was really to fight for our city for our future here, our reputation here as a city, and do my best to improve that in the role of mayor.
A Christian blogger and social media personality has entered the race for Albany mayor.
With the Empire State Plaza as backdrop, Alicia Purdy said she’ll seek the Republican nod in a bid to challenge second-term Democratic Mayor Kathy Sheehan. I will not be the queen of Albany, she said. I m the team captain of Albany. There s a big difference. What a mayor is here to do is empower the people, because we re only as strong as our weakest team member. And that s where we re gonna begin.
Purdy says she was moved to run by poverty, racism, high taxes and shootings plaguing the city.