The booming town of Buffalo, New York -- which finally won its independence last year after suffering decades under of the private ownership and slave economy of Tim Russert -- today is holding its Democratic mayoral primary, a.k.a. "the mayoral election." And the current mayor, Byron Brown, has discovered (at :50) the single most effective last-minute pitch ever: promise all the old people new flat-screen teevees! (AND DON'T FUCK WITH MEDICARE.) [Political Class Dismissed]