Zeneta Everhart, whose son survived the Buffalo mass shooting, won a Democratic primary on Tuesday to represent a neighborhood near the supermarket where the shooting happened.
that killed 47 people in the city and its suburbs, with a disproportionate number of the victims coming from Buffalo's Black neighborhoods.
But Walton said she would continue her activism."My intention is to keep doing what I've been doing: speak truth to power, to continue organizing," she said. Weeks after the shooting, Everhart testified before Congress and has continued to speak publicly in the months since about racism and gun violence in the U.S.
With no Republican on the ballot, Walton briefly looked like a sure winner in the general election, too, but Brown came back as a write-in candidate and won with the support of centrist Democrats, Buffalo's business community and Republicans who said Walton, a former nurse and labor organizer, was too liberal.
"Part of me wanting to run for Masten is about paying it forward because of the love that was shown to my son," Everhart said during a phone interview Monday."People are still dropping off gifts, leaving things on my doorstep for Zaire. And that, to me, means that I have to give back to my community."
"The Democratic Party here in Buffalo and a lot of people in power know that I'm going to bring something different," Walton had said in a phone interview Tuesday."I'm not beholden to anyone. I have no political allies or enemies."
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