Editor’s note: After Central Current in May hosted a Democratic mayoral forum, it collected audience questions and edited the questions for length and clarity before sending the questions to the candidates. Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens was the only candidate to respond. Jordan Lally, campaign manager for candidate Pat Hogan, on Friday promised to return answers for Hogan by Sunday, but she never did. Blake Carter, campaign manager for Chol Majok, initially said Majok declined to return answers to Central Current’s questions. The campaigns were given more than 10 days to return their answers.
Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens is running to succeed Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh, whose second and final term will end this year.
If victorious, Owens would become the first Black woman to serve as mayor in the city’s history…