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What party is this guy in? I've searched and not one article or website says, unless I've missed it.
Most local governments in America are "officially" non-partisan.
Edit: I'm not wrong 🤷♂️
What city do you live in? Every person that I've ever seen run for office was always in a party.
I'm sure they were affiliated and financially supported by a party, and some municipalities do run partisan elections, but "mayoral elections are officially nonpartisan in most of the nation's largest cities", insofar as party affiliation is not listed on the ballot. I'm sure mayoral candidate party affiliations are well-known/easily determined in big cities, but in small towns like the one I grew up in, the info isn't necessarily there and there's not necessarily anyone even looking for it.
...From that article.
Your reading comprehension isn't as good as you think it is, I addressed that already.
Ok dude. 👍
Election ≠ Candidate
Make sense?
Ok guy, sure thing buddy. You win shit hole dive towns aren't political somehow in your world. that's fine.
Bro, this isn't an opinion and that's a massive misrepresentation of my comments. Obviously city elections are "political", obviously candidates are affiliated with parties based on their personal beliefs and intentions, but that doesn't change the fact that objectively, most city election ballots don't include party affiliation information. Someone was wondering why they couldn't find that information and I simply offered a possible explanation. Sorry reality seems to have hurt your feelings, idk what else to tell you 🤷♂️
Then why did ask? Seems like you do care...and you should! Municipal elections are super important for the kind of transformative grassroots movements needed to wrench what tiny amounts of control away from the oligarchs that we can, while elections are still being held. Vote, bitch!
Mayoral elections, and many city elections, are generally non partisan.
So while the candidate may be a Republican or a Democrat, they aren't running AS a Republican or Democrat, and the party affiliation is not mentioned on the ballot.
Here's the ballot for mayor of Portland, Oregon in 2024, ranked choice, vote for up to 6. Keith Wilson won.