Troy Hernandez
Troy Hernandez (Green Party) ran for election to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago in Illinois. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Hernandez completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Hernandez was a 2015 candidate for Ward 25 of the Chicago City Council.
Biography
Hernandez was born in Oak Lawn, Illinois. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2013. Hernandez' professional experience includes working as a data scientist and executive architect at IBM.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Municipal elections in Cook County, Illinois (2020)
General election
General election for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kimberly du Buclet (D) | 28.9 | 1,288,586 |
| ✔ |  | Cam Davis (D)  | 25.6 | 1,141,803 |
| ✔ |  | Eira Corral Sepulveda (D) | 23.0 | 1,028,057 |
 | Troy Hernandez (G) | 7.6 | 339,633 | |
 | Rachel Wales (G) | 7.6 | 337,272 | |
| Tammie Vinson (G) | 7.3 | 324,905 | |
| Total votes: 4,460,256 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kimberly du Buclet | 18.0 | 346,370 |
| ✔ | | Cam Davis | 15.0 | 288,471 |
| ✔ | | Eira Corral Sepulveda | 12.6 | 242,055 |
| Patricia Theresa Flynn | 11.6 | 222,191 | |
| Heather Boyle | 11.3 | 216,447 | |
| Frank Avila | 11.2 | 215,741 | |
| Michael Grace | 8.2 | 157,088 | |
 | Mike Cashman | 5.2 | 99,319 | |
| Shundar Lin | 3.4 | 65,757 | |
| Deyon Dean | 3.2 | 61,102 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 7,627 | ||
| Total votes: 1,922,168 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Todd Stroger (D)
- Kim Dulaney (D)
- Eddie Ngozi Nwosu (D)
- Kisha McCaskill (D)
Green primary election
The Green primary election was canceled. Troy Hernandez, Tammie Vinson, and Rachel Wales advanced from the Green primary for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
2019
See also: City elections in Chicago, Illinois (2019)
General runoff election
General runoff election for Chicago City Council Ward 25
Byron Sigcho-Lopez defeated Alex Acevedo in the general runoff election for Chicago City Council Ward 25 on April 2, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Byron Sigcho-Lopez (Nonpartisan) | 54.2 | 5,224 |
 | Alex Acevedo (Nonpartisan) | 45.8 | 4,414 | |
| Total votes: 9,638 | |||
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General election
General election for Chicago City Council Ward 25
Byron Sigcho-Lopez and Alex Acevedo advanced to a runoff. They defeated Hilario Dominguez, Aida Flores, and Troy Hernandez in the general election for Chicago City Council Ward 25 on February 26, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Byron Sigcho-Lopez (Nonpartisan) | 29.2 | 2,885 |
| ✔ | | Alex Acevedo (Nonpartisan) | 22.1 | 2,182 |
| Hilario Dominguez (Nonpartisan) | 20.8 | 2,056 | |
 | Aida Flores (Nonpartisan) | 19.4 | 1,912 | |
| Troy Hernandez (Nonpartisan) | 8.5 | 835 | |
| Total votes: 9,870 | |||
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2015
The city of Chicago, Illinois, held elections for city council on February 24, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was November 24, 2014.[2] In the general election for Ward 25, incumbent Daniel Solis defeated Ed Hershey, Jorge Mujica, Roberto "Beto" Montano and Byron Sigcho. Troy Hernandez withdrew from the race in December 2014.[3][4]
| Chicago City Council, Ward 25, 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
 Daniel Solis Incumbent |
51.1% | 3,811 | |
| Byron Sigcho | 18.5% | 1,383 | |
| Jorge Mujica | 12.2% | 907 | |
| Roberto "Beto" Montano | 10% | 748 | |
| Ed Hershey | 8.2% | 614 | |
| Total Votes | 7,463 | ||
| Source: Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, "Official general election results," accessed July 9, 2015 | |||
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Troy Hernandez completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hernandez's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I'm a 38-year old data scientist, activist, and Green Party MWRD candidate. I've lived in Chicagoland all of my life. I earned my PhD in statistics from UIC in 2013. I live in Pilsen and work for IBM. I'm a volunteer director of the Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization (P.E.R.R.O.) I served two 2-year terms as a community representative (2 years as secretary) on the Pilsen Community Academy Local School Council (2014-2018). I'm an organizer for the Chicago R User Group.
While I've always been interested in politics, my interest grew when the economy collapsed and we elected a mixed-race Chicagoan, like myself, as President. Since then I've studied politics and economics as a hobby and compliment to my research in statistics, game theory, and computer science. In 2014, I unsuccessfully tried to get on the ballot for the 2015 aldermanic race in the 25th ward in Chicago. In 2018-19, I got on the ballot for 25th ward alderman. I am proud of the campaign that I ran.
- I have a PhD in statistics and have been employed in Chicago's tech sector for the last 6 years. I am an expert on statistics, data, machine learning, optimization, and tech. I will bring my technical skills to bear on key issues within the MWRD. There is no current commissioner or candidate with my skills, experience, or knowledge.
- Moreover, I've volunteered my time in my community fighting for clean water. I've done this, not when it was politically convenient or advantageous, but when it was difficult and a political liability for folks to rally behind this inconvenient cause. https://interactive.wttw.com/my-neighborhood/pilsen/pilsen-environmentalists-organize-protect-neighbors-lead-water
- The most pressing issue facing the MWRD is legal corruption. Our uniformly Democratic Board of Commissioners have their campaigns financed by large engineering firms. When you have big engineering companies making big campaign contributions to MWRD candidates, you get big expensive engineering solutions at the MWRD, like the Deep Tunnel.
Climate change is an existential threat to the human race. The most effective way to address climate change is through coordinated government action. Coordinated government action on behalf of its human (as opposed to corporate) citizens requires a change in incentives for politicians. That means public financing of our elections, putting an end to the gerrymandering of our political boundaries, implementing ranked choice voting, etc. There is no issue that you care about, schools or roads or parks or pensions, that is going to get fixed and stay fixed until we fix our political system. Fixing our political system requires changing the incentives for politicians.
Mack the Knife
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2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Chicago 2019 Candidate Survey
Troy Hernandez did not complete Ballotpedia's Chicago candidates survey for 2019.
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 22, 2020
- ↑ Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, "2015 Election Calendar," accessed August 21, 2014
- ↑ Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, "General Election Candidate List," accessed December 3, 2014
- ↑ Chicago Tribune, "Unofficial election results," accessed February 24, 2015
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