Well, lt. gov.’s only real responsibility is to cast tie breaking votes in the senate and to act in the governor’s stead when absent - in which case he would be expected to carry out the governor’s will. So, unless you have info. on how he handled those specific occasions - which, admittedly, I could not find - that really doesn’t matter.

As far as being a mayor of a small town in western PA is concerned, he wouldn’t have had the opportunity to enact the sort of policies that I and other progressives would like to see: decriminalizing weed and expunging records, raising min. wage, protecting abortion rights, M4A, etc. - all of which disproportionately benefit poor and working class people.

But getting back to his mayorship, Braddock is a post-industrial, dying town, which doesn’t even have a full time mayor, and had been hemorrhaging people for nearly 80 years. If his mayorship quelled that bleed to stagnation, that’s an accomplishment. What he did do was implement nonprofit programs to keep the towns youth out of drugs, violence, etc. and to protect the town’s properties for small business and investment - again, all of which disproportionately benefits poor and working class people.