Engineer, ‘pragmatist’ Greenberg announces bid for mayor
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Published: 4/28/2021 9:03:21 PM
NORTHAMPTON “He poops. She poops. They poop. Everybody poops,” reads the logo on the website of mayoral candidate Jared Greenberg. “Cities control sewers, not language.”
Greenberg, an electrical engineer and self-described non-partisan pragmatist and technocrat, recently announced he is running for mayor of Northampton. The 37-year-old is a Ward 6 resident who has lived in the city for four years and is the third candidate to announce a campaign. He declined to name the company he worked for.
“I’m a political newcomer and it just seems that in every successive cycle we see politics in not only the country but our city become more polarized,” he said when asked why he was running. “It also seems as though local politics are starting to become a platform for more national issues.”