‘My story resonates’: India Walton details the life experience that put her on a mayoral path Erum Salam © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Robert Kirkham/AP
India Walton was just 14 when she had her first baby. After leaving a home for young mothers, and quitting high school at 19 when her twins were born, she went on to get her GED (the general educational development test for those who did not complete their schooling), have a fourth child and become a nurse.
Now she’s firmly on the path to becoming the mayor of Buffalo, New York – the first socialist mayor elected to a US city since 1960, when mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee, Wisconsin left office.
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Democratic Socialist Candidate Bests Four-Term Incumbent in Buffalo Mayoral Primary © REUTERS / Lindsay DeDario
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The heavily Democratic city of Buffalo, New York, has not seen a Republican official clinch the mayoral post since 1965, a decades-old dip for the GOP that also saw no Republican candidate listed as an option for the city’s 2021 mayoral primary. All three candidates for the race were registered as Democrats.
India Walton, a nurse, community activist and self-declared Democratic Socialist, recently managed to topple the reign of four-term incumbent Byron Brown, setting the stage for her to become the first socialist mayor of a major city in over 60 years.
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