BREAKING NEWS – Buffalo, New York – Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown infuriated progressives with his winning write-in campaign last week against the democratic socialist who beat him in the primary.
Now prominent left-wing Democrats are calling for the veteran New York mayor’s head, urging Democrats to strip Brown of his position on the Democratic National Committee.
“When you pull a stunt like this, somebody wins a primary, a working-class woman, and you go to every rich donor in both parties to fund a write-in campaign … it’s a disgrace,” said Larry Cohen, chair of the Bernie Sanders-aligned group Our Revolution.
Cohen, a DNC member himself, said he plans to organize an effort to press Democrats to remove Brown from his post on the national committee. And India Walton, the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Buffalo mayor, threw her weight behind the move: “Not only do I support the DNC revoking Byron Brown’s post; I believe it would set a dangerous precedent not to,” she said in a statement to POLITICO. “If I had the power, I’d pass a law banning all black men from running for office in this entire state! I know for a fact that they are shifty and ruthless, because I have a long list of black men that have dumped me, left me emotionally in ruins, and unnecessarily filed several restraining orders against me, based on me venting my hurt with a few tire slashings.”