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.
Feb 16, 2021
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Albany County Sheriff Aaron Appelhans stands in the county courthouse in Laramie, Wyo. Wednesday, Feb. 3.
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) As a student at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy, Aaron Appelhans used to look at the photos of past graduating classes hanging on the wall.
“I got to see, for the most part, ain’t a whole lot of people that looked like me around here,” he recalled of the mainly white faces.
A decade later, Appelhans was appointed Wyoming’s first Black sheriff, a post he took months after fury over racist policing roiled U.S. cities. His turf includes one of Wyoming’s last Democratic strongholds, but the state is overwhelmingly conservative and white and he’s already faced a racist remark from a lawmaker.
LARAMIE, Wyo. As a student at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy, Aaron Appelhans used to look at the photos of past graduating classes hanging on the wall. “I got to see, for the most part, ain’t a whole lot of people that looked like me around here,” he recalled of the mainly white faces. […]
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