Is it she who draws inspiration from Zeidler? On skim I only found the reporter bringing him up.
The word is carefree, Minivet. Car-free would mean not having a car!
2: I think I've heard her (or her campaign) mention him on Twitter, but that might just have been a WFP tweet.
There was an article about this race in this month's Mother Jones too. Here's the online article from Mother Jones. One good quote from it --
Reflecting on how that community has fared in her lifetime, she noted the lack of grocery stores, post offices, and banks. She pointed to a proposed $30 million project that would revitalize the town's waterfront district "when the majority of working-class Buffalonians are struggling just to get the basic necessities.".
The article also mentioned a horrifying 30% unemployment rate in town, which seems like a vast pool of people desperate to change things, and not in tinkering in the margins fashion.
6: I was surprised at that number and checked - MoJo said poverty rate, not unemployment rate. The most granular unemployment rate I was able to find was for Erie County (smaller than Buffalo MSA, bigger than Buffalo city) of 5.3% in May 2021, vs. 9.8% for NYC and 4.3% for Albany-Schenectady-Troy MSA.
Nationwide in 2019 24% of families were in poverty, vs. 10% in Erie County, and 25% in Buffalo city, so some major intraregional divide.
7: It surprised me too -- but evidently not enough to carefully read and restate. Thanks for the clarification!