“I felt like there wasn’t a voice that was reflecting the needs of all our constituents,” Binda said. “Now that we’re growing and changing, I just think it needed a different voice.”
Binda ran a campaign focused on increasing affordable housing and diversity in the city. He won in 2021 at age 21 — the youngest Black person elected in state history, he said.
Binda thinks he brings a sense of urgency to elected office — a willingness to move quickly and question the way things have always been done.
“I’m up there as someone that’s just authentic, more real, more raw,” Binda said.
Binda acknowledges that his approach to
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