Lococco win Niagara Falls Mayor race

It’s interesting to look across the border and see what happened in Tuesday’s election.

Incumbent Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati lost to Lori Lococco.

In Fort Erie, Wayne Redekop got bounced in place of Tom Insinna.

While Canada’s elections are much different than what we have stateside and the anti-incumbent fervor is in keeping with the general trend, a friend in Canada tells a different story.

“It’s more about Diodati than an anti-incumbent vote,” he said. “The irony of it is that for the most part, the new council is the same.

“Thus it is likely nothing really changes for the mayor. 1 mayor, 1 vote. 8 councillors, 6 votes.

“Lori Lococco is very popular and likeable. She is focused on reducing taxes and costs.”

Going back to the 2016 Presidential Primary in the states, there were Bernie signs all over rural Niagara County. Then Hillary won. Bernie came down. Trump signs went up. People didn’t care how they messed things up, they just knew they wanted to mess things up.

With that said, a decade later, that anti-incumbent furor appears to be stoked by gas and food prices and resentment over an unnecessary war and disregard for our Constitution.

I won’t predict the mid-terms, or next year’s Niagara Falls Mayoral race but the urge to mess things up may be a trend. “I’ll take anybody, just not him” becomes a call to action.