BlitztheDragon 
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Regarding your anecdote about the mayoral race, there are some inaccurate details. That was in Buffalo, NY. Four-term incumbent Byron Brown lost a primary challenge from the left to India Walton. He then registered as an independent for a general election write-in campaign. With the help of wealthy donors and even the Republican party, he ran a smear campaign across the airwaves about how awful and unqualified Walton is, without even having a platform to run on. Leaders of the Democratic Party of New York publicly refused to endorse Walton, though both US Senators eventually did.
The bipartisan media blitz against Walton worked, and it scared just enough affluent residents to the polls to get Brown another term despite his numerous corruption scandals (according to Walton's campaign as well as observers, income was the biggest factor in who voted for Brown).
It's true that Buffalo's city council *did* consider abolishing the position of mayor in favor of an appointed city manager, but they ultimately discarded this idea.Ultimately tThey got what they wanted from the write-in campaign.
Regarding your anecdote about the mayoral race, there are some inaccurate details. That was in Buffalo, NY. Four-term incumbent Byron Brown lost a primary challenge from the left to India Walton. He then registered as an independent for a general election write-in campaign. With the help of wealthy donors and even the Republican party, he ran a smear campaign across the airwaves about how awful and unqualified Walton is, without even having a platform to run on. Leaders of the Democratic Party of New York publicly refused to endorse Walton, though both US Senators eventually did.
The bipartisan media blitz against Walton worked, and it scared just enough affluent residents to the polls to get Brown another term despite his numerous corruption scandals (according to Walton's campaign as well as observers, income was the biggest factor in who voted for Brown).
It's true that Buffalo's city council *did* consider abolishing the position of mayor in favor of an appointed city manager, but they ultimately discarded this idea.