On Nov. 7, Gary residents will head to the polls to elect a new mayor, city clerk, city judge and city council. Nine of the 12 races are all but decided, with no Republican names on the ballot. In the other three races, Republican candidates face long odds in the Democrat-dominated city.
Mayoral candidate Andrew Delano would be the city’s first Republican mayor in eighty years. Ernst Schaible, the last Republican to hold the office, served from 1939 to 1943. Delano’s opponent, State Sen. Eddie Melton, D-Gary, unseated incumbent Mayor Jerome Prince in the city’s Democratic mayoral primary in May and is heavily favored to win the general election.
Asked to identify a city policy that he has disagreed with, Ursery voiced opposition to the COVID-19 restrictions that were first put in place by Prince in 2020 to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, which have since been relaxed. “I disagree with the way that was handled,” he said. Ursery has used social media to spread baseless claims about the COVID-19 pandemic. In a Jan.
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