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It's weird to me that there are parties associated with Mayoral candidates. Is this true for all cities in Murca?
No but kind of yes, there are partisan elections and non partisan elections. The Hatch Act (which applies to every federal employee including a letter carrier) states they cannot be involved in any partisan elections. Which currently means almost every election now.
Non partisan elections used to be much more common in the past, but the major parties over the years (mostly Republicans) pushed it to where there are very few non partisan elections. Even school committee seat elections in my town are partisan, and because of that my local letter carrier couldn't participate even with their massive involvement in the community.
Wait, do you mean the postal workers can't campaign for someone or they can't vote? Where is the line between participating and influencing?
Also I see endorsements all the time, are none of those endorsers federal employees?
Not all. The mayor of Dallas does not represent a party. Which made it curious when the current mayor switched from a Democrat to a Republican.
So they can run as independents but typically they're in some party or other. So strange to me since they should be locally-focused.
Yes, effectively every office from Sheriff to even judges. If there is an election the candidates list their party affiliation. Sometimes resulting in funny stuff like this: https://apnews.com/article/e1580367018108b09755dfb994395c0a
Lol, thanks for sharing that
Near me, city council positions are all at-large, and political affiliations, if any, aren't mentioned anywhere, not in promotional materials or on campaign websites.