Part II: The Candidates

Miro Weinberger (D)

http://miroformayor.com/

Incumbent Mayor of Burlington and Jack Tripper's upstairs neighbor.

Elected in 2012 (57%), 2015 (68%), 2018 (48%).

Hired Brandon del Pozo as police chief in 2015.  Was strongly advised to fire him in 2016.  Finally fired him in late 2019.

Turned Burlington Square Mall into a pit.

Provided port-o-potties for Battery Park protesters.

Probably shouldn't be re-elected, but absolutely will be re-elected.

Max Tracy (P)

https://www.maxformayorbtv.com/

Elected Ward 2 City Councilor 2012 (62%), 2015 (97%), 2018 (97%).

Progressive nominee and Bolshevik bred in your washroom. 

Comfortable with the word "uppity." 

Voted for the confirmation of Brandon del Pozo as police chief in 2015.

Ali Dieng (I)

https://alidieng.com/

Elected Ward 7 City Councilor in a special election 2017 (61%), re-elected 2018 (59%).

Always upbeat and positive.  I got a bike helmet because he told me to.

May come in 2nd place.

Patrick White

https://patrick4mayor.com

I interviewed this candidate in the comment section of a picture on Black Market-U on 12/9/20:

Haik Bedrosian: Are you to the right or the left of the mayor?

Patrick White: it really depends on the subject honestly. Are there any issues in particular you’re concerned about?

Haik Bedrosian: nah. I just wanted to see how you’d handle the question. Not bad!

Jonny Wanzer

https://jonnywanzer.com/

"The People's Mayor."

Talented entertaining genius.

Wants to [redacted] Miro.

Poster boy for performative allyship.

Supports Max Tracy for Mayor.

Pepe

"I am an oppressed [redacted].  I am sick of multi-culti [redacted] of injustice.  And I'm coming for [redacted] Jimmy Cliff style."

Anti-Defamation League watch list.

May not appear on ballot.

I'm working on a post about the 2021 mayoral election but it's harder than I thought it would be. It took the whole day yesterday just to put Frankenstrat stripes at the top of the blog, but I must do things in the right order, of course.

Next, a little warm up post.

It appears the city charter requires a candidate for school commissioner to win at least 40% of "all votes cast" to avoid a run-off....

"5 Election to be by ballot; method of election; runoff elections.Share The election of the mayor, all city councilors and school commissioners shall be by ballot, and the person or persons receiving a plurality of all votes cast for any office aforesaid shall, except as hereinafter provided, be declared elected thereto. However, if no person receives at least 40 percent of all votes cast for any office aforesaid, no one shall be declared elected and a runoff election shall be held" [Emphasis added.]

Yet in 2010 I was declared the winner of the Ward 7 election for school commissioner with only 36% of the total votes cast.  That's weird.  I don't know if this got overlooked or what.

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