"In the run-up to last month's mayoral election in Dayton, Ohio, candidate Shenise Turner-Sloss found herself up against it. Her opponent, mayor Jeffrey Mims, was a 78-year-old local Democratic party doyen who had served on school boards and teachers' unions in the city for decades. His campaign budget was three times hers and an incumbent hadn't been unseated from the mayoral role in the city for over a decade."
"But it wasn't just money and status that stood in her way. In 2021, when Turner-Sloss ran for a seat on the city commission as a Democrat, the Ohio Democratic party mailed out an attack ad against her and another candidate that included the text: Don't Trust Shenise Turner-Sloss. And yet, on 4 November, 44-year-old Turner-Sloss ousted Mims, marking a sea change in how local politics are run in the Ohio city."
Shenise Turner-Sloss, 44, defeated incumbent Jeffrey Mims, 78, to become mayor of Dayton, Ohio. Mims had decades of local Democratic influence, experience on school boards and unions, and a campaign budget three times larger. In 2021 the Ohio Democratic party mailed an attack ad including the text "Don't Trust Shenise Turner-Sloss." Turner-Sloss framed her candidacy as ushering in a new generation of leadership and called for finding common ground as people face hardship. Similar insurgent progressive Democrats are winning school board, city council, and mayoral races across the Rust Belt, challenging establishment Democrats and reshaping local political dynamics.
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