ABC News, June 24, 2021, A socialist is poised to become mayor of a major US city. Is it a movement or a blip?
India Walton became a full-time working mom at just 14 years old.
A high school dropout, she earned her GED at 19 while pregnant with twins, who were later born prematurely. Carless, she took the bus with her children to follow-up medical appointments for her babies, who were less than 2 pounds at birth. Inspired, she decided to become a nurse and later, a union representative and community activist.
Now, after defeating the four-term Democratic mayor of Buffalo in Tuesday’s primary, 38-year-old Walton is poised to become not only the first woman mayor of New York‘s second largest city, but the first socialist mayor of a major U.S. city in decades.
