Syracuse mayor, Ben Walsh (I), publicly endorses Joe Biden for president

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https://www.syracuse.com/news/2020/09/syracuse-mayor-ben-walsh-why-im-voting-for-joe-biden.html

The reasons he listed all had to do with President Trump.

Trump, he said, failed to manage the coronavirus pandemic, inflamed racial divisions, has not supported cities and has ignored the threat of climate change. And then there is Trump’s demeanor.

"On all of those issues, he’s not only on the wrong side of them but he’s extremely divisive in the process, at a time when as a city and a country we need to be coming together,'' Walsh said.

Walsh’s father, former U.S. Rep. James Walsh, a Republican, also has endorsed Biden this year.

The younger Walsh, who has never enrolled in a party, easily won the mayor’s race in 2017 running as a soft-spoken independent who vowed to replace bitter partisanship with collaboration. His style could not be more different from the pugilistic Trump.

"I pride myself on bringing people together,'' Walsh said today. "I think as a public servant it’s important to be honest and transparent, and I don’t see those as values that the president embodies.''

Syracuse’s outlook for a recovery from the pandemic and its fiscal reverberations will improve if Biden replaces Trump in the White House, Walsh said.

"I believe strongly that a Joe Biden presidency is in the best interest of the city of Syracuse,'' he said.

[Crunchy Frog]

1. That's good to know. He's been doing a really excellent job of handling the pandemic here.

Now if we can just get rid of Katko.

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2. Yes, he has! County Exec Ryan McMahon has performed well on the pandemic front. He takes it

seriously and I'm sure he's getting a lot of push-back from other Republicans. Hope he changes parties after all is said and done. Go Independent like Walsh.

Katko was the most uninspiring speaker at a high school graduation I attended a few years back. He's a drip! Here's to Dana Balter unseating him.