NY: Primary Day, from Buffalo to the Bronx
Tuesday’s New York primaries are local affairs featuring candidates for mayor and city council, from Buffalo to the Bronx. But the results could be harbingers of 2024 when the state will likely play a major role in which party controls the House.
If big Democratic energy in the Hudson Valley is any indicator, the future is bright blue.
The region is a political battleground, with cities New Rochelle, Yonkers, Poughkeepsie and Kingston fielding younger, more diverse Democratic candidates vying to move up the ballot — or enter elected office for the first time.
In New Rochelle, Councilmember Yadira Ramos-Herbert is running in the city’s first open mayoral primary in more than two decades.
A councilmember in Yonkers, Corazon Pineda-Isaac, is trying to block Mayor Mike Spano from taking a fourth term in her quest to become the first woman and person of color to lead the state’s third largest city.
Kingston’s Charlotte Lloyd, a 25-year-old tenant activist, is running for the local council and was recruited by the group For the Many, which came out of the Occupy movement.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2023/06/27/primary-day-from-buffalo-to-the-bronx-00103755
