Progressive challenger Randall Woodfin on Tuesday unseated William Bell, the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, in a nonpartisan runoff election. With all but one polling place reporting, Woodfin defeated Bell 58 to 41 percent. He supports raising the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, and plans to make that the minimum for city employees. “There’s not a shortage of funding in Birmingham,” Woodfin told HuffPost in a July interview. “There’s a shortage of priorities and a vision to move the city forward with tax dollars in an appropriate and transparent way.”

Source: Huffington Post October 04, 2017 02:46 UTC