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Sydney Zulich to run for Bloomington mayor

WFIU | By George Hale
Published August 22, 2026 at 2:42 PM EDT
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Sydney Zulich launched the campaign Saturday.

City Council member Sydney Zulich announced Saturday she was launching a campaign for mayor of Bloomington in next year's primary.

The announcement said that Zulich was running on a platform of affordability, investment in the city, and to keep Bloomington "local."

Read more: Zulich wins uncontested District 6 seat

Zulich represents District 6, largely populated by students attending Indiana University, where she graduated in 2023. She won her council seat the same year.

“We’re in a spiral of corporatizing our city and hiring out-of-town consultants to solve our problems,” Zulich said. “We need to use our community’s creativity, talent and grit for in-house solutions that keep our dollars in Bloomington.”

Zulich, a Democrat, will likely be running against incumbent Kerry Thomson in the party primary in May 2027. Earlier this week, Bloomington resident Joe Davis told the local news site The B Square that he intended to run.

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George Hale
George Hale is a Multi-Media Journalist at Indiana Public Media. He previously worked as an Investigative Reporter for NPR’s northeast Texas member station KETR. Hale has reported from the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Jordan and Egypt.
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