Professionals from city’s wealthier areas powered India Walton to victory

Professionals from city’s wealthier areas powered India Walton to victory

Jerry Zremski
Publication Year: 2021

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Walton grew up poor in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, but she beat Buffalo’s four-term mayor, Byron W. Brown, with votes – and a lot of campaign help – from professionals in the city’s wealthier enclaves. And now Walton and her supporters are working to defeat Brown’s write-in bid in November and create a progressive city administration led by a self-proclaimed democratic socialist.