Anti-Oppression/Anti-Bs FOR New Orleans Elections: Voter Education Guide SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2020
Anti-Oppression/Anti-Bs FOR New Orleans Elections: Voter Education Guide SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2020
Anti-Oppression/Anti-Bs FOR New Orleans Elections: Voter Education Guide SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2020
that it exists at the whim of natural and man-made (or exacerbated) disasters,
and that it is not solely dictated by elected bodies. In the months between when this
election was originally scheduled and now, we have seen the calculated neglect of
a public health crisis on state and federal levels. We have seen the extrajudicial
murders of people—particularly Black people—by the police. And we have seen the
public rise up to demand a better world—outside the polling booth, largely propelled
by people who aren’t even allowed in, and not just symbolically: the youths who have
been putting their bodies on the line at protests all around this country.
With that fire in our hearts, we offer you this guide on another mode of civic
participation. While there are no perfect candidates, there are lesser evils.
Grassroots organizers often frame voting as selecting the candidate you think
you can most successfully push to support your goals and movement. Voting is
an imperfect, absurd response to an imperfect, absurd social system. Ultimately,
what we want is to build a new world with you. Our survival depends on it.
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legis.la.gov
in our national politics), Bernie anti-rave bill: Reducing Americans’
Sanders suspended his campaign. Vulnerability to Ecstasy. If Trump
Whether you blame boomers, the loses and actually cedes power, a Biden
DNC, or other reasons, we hope you’ve presidency would in no way signal
made peace with it by now. the end of the fight for a livable world. Valerie Bustamante hasn’t that trains women to run for office.
Remember, the race for president is had the chance (yet). New to As a member of the Louisiana
One crucial detail of the presidential the contest to see who becomes the politics and new to New Orleans, Coalition for Reproductive
primaries is that when we cast a vote next biggest war criminal. there is little to no evidence that Freedom, Snider fights restrictive
for a primary contender, we are really Bustamante is running to win, as abortion laws. Reproductive justice
voting for the delegates that each Summary: The primary still has she has no real campaign presence. is clearly important to her: in her
candidate sends to the Democratic an impact in terms of delegates. A She hails from Miami, where spare time Snider volunteers with
National Convention. The candidates vote for Bernie could help accrue she and her husband organized Lift Louisiana and Plan B NOLA.
that clear 15% of the vote get delegates who could (in theory) help immigrant workers and co-wrote Another pet cause is transparency in
delegates allocated to them on a push the party platform further left a children’s book (Manny and government. She wants to educate
proportional basis. These delegates at the DNC. the Mango Tree) that tackles the public about what DPEC and
then vote to nominate a presidential xenophobia at a reading level DSCC are, because they are part of
candidate, but they also help craft the DSCC MEMBER appropriate for 4-8 year olds. a bewildering, obscure process that
party platform and set the rules for 91ST DISTRICT “A” seems designed to exclude most
the next convention. In other words, Summary: Vote Bajoie (but read people—including those who have
though the nominee is effectively a Diana Bajoie Bustamante’s book to your kids). no clue that they might actually
foregone conclusion at this point, a Valerie Bustamante want to give a damn. Snider wants
vote for, say, Bernie could serve other DSCC MEMBER you to have a clue and give two
purposes. At the 2016 Democratic The 91st District runs from Hollygrove 93RD DISTRICT “A” damns (because she is running for
National Convention, rule changes down to the Lower Garden District both committees). She also shares
pushed by the Bernie delegation and includes Gert Town, Central City, Avis M. Brock a list of bills she plans to support.
curtailed the role of superdelegates in parts of Broadmoor, Uptown, and the Helena Moreno (withdrew) Snider walks the walk.
the primary process. Irish Channel. Megan Snider
Summary: Vote Snider. Brock has
Though former Vice President Joe Diana Bajoie began her political The 93rd District comprises a wide sphere of influence already,
Biden’s campaign had initially career in the ‘70s as a State portions of the Lower Garden and we’re not fans of where she
seemed like a longshot, he is now Representative. In 1991 she became District and Central City Tulane/ directs it.
the presumptive nominee. Biden the first Black woman elected to the Gravier, the CBD, the Tremé, the
supporters are notoriously hard- Louisiana State Senate. Bajoie, a French Quarter, the 7th Ward, and DSCC MEMBER
pressed to name a single policy survivor of breast cancer, has long St. Roch. 93RD DISTRICT “B”
of his that they are excited about. been an advocate of health care
But we do know a few things he’s expansions and reproductive rights. Avis Brock is Councilman Jay Banks’ Cyrus Cooper
not into. Biden doesn’t believe in At the local level, she helped secure Director of Community Affairs, Royce Duplessis
universal health care. He’s not going funding for the “revitalization” of Secretary of DPEC, and elected Jerome Johnson
to challenge wealth disparity in any the Oretha Castle Haley Corridor. member of the Black Organization
meaningful way. In response to the Currently serving as the director of for Leadership and Development. Cyrus Cooper is new to the political
increasingly mainstream call to community relations for the LSU And while we don’t expect those who scene, better known to locals as a
defund the police, Biden has taken Health Sciences Center, Bajoie has work for city council to be outright comedian at the New Movement,
the position that actually this highly- had her hand in numerous public critical of anyone within the sacred a controversial club with a slew of
militarized, lavishly-funded armed health non-profit initiatives, and administration, Brock’s personal sexual misconduct allegations (and
wing of the State needs more money used the fingers of that hand to cut Facebook is resplendent with praise a boycott). We couldn’t locate any
(although he did offer a modest checks to her friends, family, and for Cantrell (who recently said that public disavowal of those misdeeds,
proposal that protestors should former senate coworkers. she doesn’t care if people in jail get and he seems to have performed
be merely maimed, not killed, for COVID-19). there recently, so that’s the biggest
participating in dissent). Perhaps his Sure, Bajoie has her nepotism- blemish on his record. A gamer/
most interesting campaign talking fueled money scandals, which is Attorney and first-time candidate podcaster type, he also has a Twitch
point has been telling people not to basically a rite of passage for any Megan Snider is a 2019 graduate of TV show and is a member of comedy
vote for him. seasoned New Orleans politician. Emerge, the Louisiana organization troupe Dean’s List.
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Though the layers of satire politics over the past 15 years. In Richard Duplantier Jr. is a senior know if her philosophy would carry
characterizing Cooper’s Twitter 2007 she was the first Democrat in partner at one of New Orleans’ fancy over to more stigmatized drugs.
(he has no campaign website) can over 20 years to qualify for the state law firms (Galloway) dealing in cases Unfortunately, she did not respond
make his positions a little hard rep race. Langhoff is heavily invested of professional liability. In 2018, to our survey.
to pin down, he seems to believe in electoral politics, but to her credit Duplantier ran in hopes of becoming
that housing is a human right and she is also involved with Justice a judge on the Orleans Parish Civil Sandra Green Thomas is a current
the pharmaceutical industry is & Beyond, a Black-led, anti-racist District Court, but had to drop out member of the OPDEC District D.
dangerously dishonest. Cooper is weekly forum for progressive social after two citizens revealed that he was This position is similar to the DSCC
sincerely radical enough to raise change. running as a Democrat but registered chair she’s running for here, but
money for protestors’ bail, but isn’t as a Republican. Duplantier claimed operates in a more local capacity
savvy enough to know that the Bail If we gave out grades for the survey that he had registered as a Republican (Orleans Parish), instead of at
Project is a nonprofit that imposes we sent out, Hope Phelps would back in 2008 in order to vote for the state level. She endorsed and
limits on how many people they’ll receive an A+. According to her Republican candidates in elections campaigned for Hillary Clinton
actually bail out (community/ responses, Phelps is in favor of that were closed to Democrats. But, in the 2016 Democratic primary,
grassroots bail funds are far more legalizing supervised injection still being registered 10 years later and represents a branch of the
effective, in need, and deserving of sites, decriminalizing drugs and sex as Republican is, at best, a strange Democratic party, just left of center,
your support). work, working to reduce rates of oversight. whose politics are useless placations
incarceration through numerous in our current social, economic, and
State Representative for District measures, and a $15 minimum wage. Michael Foley, whose father is a political climates.
93 Royce Duplessis earned quite Member of the local Democractic former court clerk and current Biden
a list of endorsements, including Socialists of America chapter, delegate, is running for a position once Sophie Kunen is a member of the
those from the Black Organization 29-year-old Phelps is a first time held by his mother. He is an attorney New Orleans Democratic Socialists of
for Leadership Development, the candidate. A tour through her and has volunteered on various America. She is a host and director at
Independent Women’s Organization, Twitter makes clear her belief campaigns of Louisiana Democrats. WTUL 91.5FM. Her Twitter timeline
the United Teachers of New Orleans, in removing symbols of white Other than that, and because none of is full of retweets of Bernie Sanders
and Step Up Louisiana. Duplessis supremacy, defunding the police, his actual political views can be found, and the New Orleans Workers Center
served as chair of the City Planning and shows a true condemnation we must assume he’s relying on family for Racial Justice. She doesn’t just
Commission and worked to impose of the NOPD’s violence at the ties to propel his campaign. talk the talk either, having worked
stricter regulations on short term recent protests. Not to mention previously with the Louisiana
rentals. As a state representative, her pivot from once canvassing for Mainstay of the local tenant rights Bucket Brigade and on the Louisiana
Duplessis collaborated with The Bernie Sanders to now showing her scene, Yasin “Frank” Southall Medicaid Expansion Campaign.
First 72+ to promote bills aimed at dismay at his reactions to recent is the lead organizer at Jane Place
ending solitary confinement and protests (i.e. Sanders not calling for Neighborhood Sustainability Diedre Pierce Kelly has worked
reducing recidivism. His legislative defunding the police). A Democratic Initiative, a housing advocacy as a New Orleans attorney and a
support of literacy programs and Socialist that doesn’t hold Sanders as nonprofit that promotes affordable legislative assistant in the Louisiana
increased pay for teachers no doubt their lord and savior? We’ll take it! housing policy, develops affordable House of Representatives and Senate.
helped endear him to UTNO. housing in a community land trust, She is running concurrently for
Tammy Savoie has a history of monitors eviction courts, creates a DSCC seat and an OPDEC seat.
We found no evidence that Jerome campaigning against Republicans definitive reports on short term She has a more visible campaign
Johnson has an active campaign. (including Steve “David Duke rentals and evictions, and constantly than most of her opponents—and
without the baggage” Scalise in provides resources and space for she provided more straightforward
Summary: As far as politicians 2018), which has resulted in her own low-income homeowners and information about the duty of DSCC
go, Duplessis advocates for issues politics being more to the center of tenants to organize. At Jane Place, members than even the Louisiana
mostly aligned with our values. left. In November she lost the race Southall launched the Renters Democratic Party’s own website.
for state representative of District Rights Assembly, which provides However, her campaign is light on
DSCC MEMBER 94 to Republican Stephanie Hilferty. legal counseling and support in actual policy or any indication as to
94TH DISTRICT “A” Savoie’s military background hopes of preventing evictions. the values she would look for when
as a clinical psychologist leaves endorsing potential candidates. It
Deborah Langhoff us less than enthused, but she Summary: Southall somehow doesn’t exactly help that she’s already
Hope Phelps continues to campaign on increasing finds the time to show up for every entrenched in the current Louisiana
Tammy Savoie funds for education, opposing community meeting, protest, and Democratic establishment.
gerrymandering, improving event. We’re going to show up for him.
The 94th District encompasses a infrastructure, and increasing the A savvy observer might put their
sliver of Mid-City and Bayou St. minimum wage (but only to $9). DSCC MEMBER money on Iam Christian Tucker
John, the City Park neighborhood, 97TH DISTRICT “A” to win this race, due to the reach
and the Lakefront areas of Orleans Summary: Hope Phelps. of her voice and access to more
and Jefferson Parish. The district Deborah Violet Chapman donations and powerful people.
is 73% white, with a majority DSCC MEMBER Sandra Green Thomas Tucker is the founder and CEO of
of residents above the median 94TH DISTRICT “B” Sophia Kunen a New Orleans civil engineering
household income for the state. Diedre Pierce Kelly firm, which specializes in sewer
Historically a Republican district, Paul Anger Iam Christian Tucker and drainage design. She served as
the 94th has seen a shift away from Richard Duplantier Jr. Angele Wilson part of Mayor Cantrell’s transition
that trend in recent years. Michael Andrew Foley team, overseeing civil and structural
Yasin “Frank” Southall The 97th District contains Gentilly, engineering, as well as construction
Deborah Langhoff ’s blood and an intestine-shaped little chunk of management activities. Ambitious
runs blue. Langhoff is a DNC Wisconsin native and retired Mid-City, including strips of Esplanade, and connected people can seem
committeewoman, current member editor of the Detroit Free Press, Orleans and Canal, carefully drawn like inevitable winners. But this
of both OPDEC and DSCC, and was a Paul Anger now resides in around City Park Avenue. type of low-level, grassroots
superdelegate for Hillary Clinton in Metairie where he flexes his 50+ election is exactly the place to begin
2016. She is the founder of LARoots, years of journalism experience by Deborah Chapman is a local undermining that assumption.
a “grassroots” database and occasionally contributing articles community leader who advocates
network that supports Democrats to local publications and blogs. for drug reform, prison reform, At press time, there was no evidence
nationwide, inspired by the Anger has only been in the greater and youth mentorship. She served of an Angele Wilson campaign.
campaign of John Kerry (a phrase New Orleans area less than five as the coordinator for the New
one imagines hasn’t been uttered years, which gives us pause, as Orleans International Drug Policy Summary: Demographically,
much), with visions of flipping does his Facebook claim that while Conference. In her speech, she District 97 is predominantly
Louisiana. While she talks in broad he is a registered Democrat he called for reduced criminalization Black. While we think Sophie
strokes about Democratic ideals, “understand[s] and often agree[s] of marijuana and spoke against Kunen is a strong candidate from
she has been effective in shifting her with Conservative or Libertarian incarceration as a means to curb a values standpoint, Kunen is also
district toward more progressive views on specific issues.” drug use. It would be interesting to white; so if it’s important to you
Jared Brossett Carlos John Stich does not appear to In 2017, Louisiana recorded 415 deaths due to drug overdoses.
Robert “Bob” Crowley have any kind of campaign presence. In an effort to reduce drug related deaths, other countries—
Arthur A. Morrell and one US city, Philadelphia—operate or allow supervised
David Gregory Nowak Summary: Nowak easily outshines consumption sites (facilities where people can use drugs in a
Carlos John Stich the others in this race. safer environment monitored by trained professionals). Since
opening, none of those sites have reported a single drug-related
Councilmember Jared Brossett, DSCC MEMBER death. Are you in favor of creating legislation that allows,
of recent viral DWI video infamy, 98TH DISTRICT “B” promotes, and funds supervised injection sites?
has served on City Council since
2014. He helped write legislation David Alvarez
instituting New Orleans’ first Timothy David Ray In 2001, Portugal dealt with their opioid crisis by
living wage law, which requires Andre Mayer Stolier decriminalizing drugs. HIV infections among people who
all employees and contractors on Carlos L. Zervigon inject drugs plummeted from 1,482 in 2000 to just 18 in 2017.
projects contracted by the city to Overdose deaths decreased from 369 in 1999 to 30 in 2016.
receive a wage of at least $11.19 The 98th District comprises In 1999, 3,863 people were incarcerated for drug offenses,
per hour and seven days of paid the majority of Uptown west of but that number shrank to 1,140 in 2017. Do you support
leave per year. He helped create Washington, including the Tulane decriminalization of drugs in our country?
the Equal Pay Advisory Committee and Loyola areas, south to the river
and contributed to legislation and north to Claiborne.
Sex workers in Louisiana face harassment not just by
prohibiting City contractors
from conducting credit checks David Alvarez is a former teacher clients, but also by law enforcement. Another measure of the
on employees. He also accepted and academic coordinator who vulnerability of this population: Louisiana also has some of the
a substantial donation from now heads a consulting firm for highest rates of HIV in the nation and a mortality rate from
developers of the Hard Rock Hotel. Louisiana schools and businesses. AIDS-related complications that is twice the national average.
He ran previously for Orleans Parish Sex workers are disproportionately represented within those
Bob Crowley is a writer and School Board on a platform of statistics. Full decriminalization of sex work is associated
photographer, who previously undercutting competition of charter with improved health outcomes for those in the industry.
organized a Louisiana teachers’ schools by having the city run and Additionally, decriminalization results in sex workers who
union. He was pro-Bloomberg, now standardize schools. Online, he
are the victims of violence feeling more empowered to pursue
he’s pro-Biden, but above all he seems supports BLM and the unionization
to be anti-Trump. We’re reaching for of teachers. justice. Do you support the full decriminalization of sex work?
a bar a bit higher than that.
Timothy David Ray is an attorney According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2018, “SNAP reduced
Arthur Morrell is a former and political consultant. He served poverty by 1.9% and child poverty in [Louisiana] by 3.8%—the
Louisiana House Rep and the previously as an interim first city second largest reductions attributable to SNAP of any state
current clerk of Orleans Criminal clerk of court. Recently, he worked in the nation.” In spite of this, our rate of food insecurity was
District Court. At the beginning on Mack Cormier’s 2019 campaign, 15.8% in 2019, significantly worse than the national rate of
of the year, Morrell threatened to helping flip that legislative seat 11.7%. What would you do to make sure Louisianians aren’t
furlough the entirety of the court’s from red to blue. In his responses
going hungry?
staff in a hold-out for an increased to our survey, he voiced support
budget from the city. This would for decriminalization of drug
have left many individuals in prison use and sex work. He provided Louisiana’s rate of incarceration is nearly double the national
with no way or chance to bail out, some thorough and nuanced average. The below measures have been used to reduce
and a complete stoppage on criminal dissections of food insecurity incarceration rates. Do you support these measures? (Check all
proceedings. The City eventually in our communities, calling that apply)
caved to Morrell’s demands and for increased state funding of
paid him what he wanted, so the programs like SNAP and the • Ending cash bail
court never shut down, but Morrell’s School Lunch program, while • Reducing sentences and promoting early release initiatives
willingness to use people’s lives and simultaneously incentivizing the • Ending the incarceration of youths
freedom as bargaining chips for his establishment of fresh markets and
office is about all you need to know fresh food sources in lower income
• Eliminating jail time for non-violent crimes
about his priorities. neighborhoods. On houselessness, • Restorative justice approaches to replace prison time
he proposes repurposing publicly-
Currently working as the foreman owned land like abandoned In 2018, over 35,000 eligible families were on the waiting list
of a film industry equipment rental buildings to transitional or for public housing assistance in New Orleans, according to
company, David Gregory Nowak permanent housing, highlighting NOLA.com. Hundreds of people sleep on the streets of our city
is a vocal supporter of Medicare the importance of public transit every night. What would you do to begin to combat this housing
For All and defunding the police. restructuring as crucial to crisis? How would you expand services to unhoused people?
He supports the decriminalization confronting this issue. At the
of sex work and drug use. He values end of his stint as clerk of court,
strong community organizing and Ray was caught up in a money
fellowship as a means to undermine mishandling scandal, when it was
harmful and inequitable systems revealed he’d cut three checks from
of power. In his response to our a City account for questionable or
survey, he supported raising unfilled services.
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Andre Mayer Stolier doesn’t “broken brake light” as a common DSCC MEMBER DSCC MEMBER
seem to have much of a campaign cop euphemism for Driving While 100TH DISTRICT “B” 102ND DISTRICT “A”
presence. On social media he has Black. Marone is also a comedian
expressed support for Black Lives who once ran for U.S. Senate as a Austin Badon Delisha Boyd
Matter and defunding the police. semi-satirical protest candidate Willie Jones Roberta B. Brown
with an earnestly progressive Kenya Rounds
Carlos Zervigon comes from a platform. DSA supports defunding The 102nd District includes Algiers
political, activist-oriented family the NOPD, supporting Medicare Austin Badon is the current first city and New Aurora.
with a long civil rights legacy. He’s for All, supporting the striking court clerk, an office responsible for
the secretary of the Keller Family sanitation workers, and reallocating small claims, most eviction filings Delisha Boyd is the DPEC
Foundation. He supports the money from the Convention (for rent under $3,000), and civil incumbent for District C and a real
decriminalization of sex work and Center’s reserve fund to support lawsuits with claims up to $25,000. estate agent at her own business.
drug use, medicaid expansion, a hospitality workers. He has previously held office as a Her strong business background
living wage, reproductive freedom, state representative from 2004 to and connections with other DPEC
marijuana decriminalization, Raquel Greenup Richmond is 2016. In 2014 Badon sponsored a members have strengthened her ties
and LGBTQ rights. He wants to married to congressman Cedric bill meant to keep pregnant women in the Louisiana political scene, but
improve access to non-carceral drug Richmond, but she herself has on life support, regardless of their we have concerns about someone
treatment. However, he does not minimal online presence. She is a real family’s wishes, in order “to preserve who has a vested interest in the rise
support ending incarceration for estate agent, but what is her platform the life of an unborn child.” (You may of housing prices also having a say
nonviolent crimes. and why exactly is she running? remember this as an actual plot line in the legislature (of course, a great
from the show The Handmaid’s Tale.) many people in positions of power fit
Summary: Timothy David Ray’s Summary: Vote Cade or Marone. Badon has also shown a troubling that description).
ideas are solid, if we take him at his Cade’s defense of public schools, impulse to expand policing—asking
word according to the survey results. and by extension New Orleans’ then-governor Jindal in 2011 to send Roberta B. Brown is the founder
And he clearly has experience in Black middle class, is laudable, the National Guard into Central City and executive director of Concerned
the political sphere (which might especially considering that school to quell gun violence. At a forum in Citizens for a Better Algiers, a non-
be read as connections, as well, board races have faced influxes of 2010, Badon once promised to have profit that provides services to low
for better or worse). However, outside cash propping up “reform” the NOPD “kicking in at least four and middle income families. Brown
mishandling public funds bums us candidates. However, we respect doors a day.” is also the jury commissioner at
out. Zervigon isn’t perfect either, but Marone’s organizing too. Both seem Orleans Criminal District Court,
a strong candidate. like good choices. Willie Jones held a seat on the but not much else is available to the
OPDEC, and ran unsuccessful public in terms of her political values.
DSCC MEMBER DSCC MEMBER campaigns for Louisiana House
99TH DISTRICT “A” 100TH DISTRICT “A” of Representatives in 2015 and Summary: Vote Boyd or Brown.
Lieutenant Governor in 2019. He is
Cynthia Cade Lisa Marie Manning Ambrose also a former member of the Zulu DSCC MEMBER
Jeanne “Jon” Jackson Alicia Plummer Clivens Social Aid and Pleasure Club. He does 105TH DISTRICT “A”
Kaitlin Marone “Jenn” Johnson not have much of an overt campaign
Raquel Greenup Richmond message and his platform running for Vanessa Turner Billiot
The 100th District encompasses a Lieutenant Governor was similarly Lisa Ray Diggs
The 99th District includes areas to part of New Orleans East, north of nebulous, with unsubstantiated lip
the east and west of the industrial Chef Menteur, and mostly east of service to increasing tourism outside The 105th District includes the east
canal—the Marigny, Bywater, the Crowder Boulevard. The district is of the main Louisiana hubs and bank of Plaquemines Parish, the
Florida/Desire Area, the Venetian majority Black (87.6%), and the next providing tax incentives for the film west bank of Jefferson Parish, and a
Isles, Holy Cross, and parts of New largest demographic is Asian (7.5%). industry. He ran against Republican small portion of Algiers.
Orleans East. The district is majority Billy Nungesser and was endorsed by
Black (around 79%). Lisa Manning Ambrose has the Louisiana Democratic Party. Vanessa Turner Billiot is a
served in the DPEC and is in resident of Plaquemines Parish, the
Cynthia Cade served on the favor of Medicare expansion and Kenya Rounds is an attorney who rest is a mystery.
Orleans Parish School Board from criminal justice reform, according serves on the Zulu board of directors
2004 to 2015 and was a union ally to her messaging. She attended as well as practicing personal injury, Lisa Ray Diggs is a current member
and opponent of charter schools. both the Emerge Louisiana contract, and criminal law. He was of the DSCC for her district and was
However, she was barred from training (for women who want accused of attempting to cover up a previously endorsed by Congressman
running for reelection in 2016 to run for Democratic office) and sexual harassment complaint against a Cedric Richmond. Diggs, who
because she failed to file her taxes. the Congressional Black Caucus Zulu member in 2018. Also in 2018, he recently announced she will be a Joe
Institute. None of the available represented Edgar P. Harney Spirit of Biden delegate at the Democratic
Jon Jackson, daughter of state materials give much detail about her Excellence Academy’s Board. Former National Convention, was on Team
representative and late ‘80s/early political vision. Principal Ashonta Wyatt claimed Joe since before the fall of the more
‘90s city councilmember Johnny that Rounds denied Wyatt’s request progressive candidates, so it is clear
Jackson Jr., has a minimal online Alicia Plummer Clivens is a veteran for a public meeting when the board her politics are hardly left of center.
campaign presence. She runs a local Democratic Party campaigner, real convened to discuss firing her, after
foundation named after her father. estate broker, and public health nurse she criticized board spending. She Summary: Diggs, as she seems to be
The youth-oriented programming who has run for both the city council claims that he denied her request in the one in politics here.
includes “shop with a cop,” which District E seat and for the LA House a possible violation of open-meeting
frankly sounds like entrapment. On of Representatives. In her campaigns law, though he disputes this account. DSCC MEMBER
her personal Twitter page, Jackson she has advocated for greater 105TH DISTRICT “B”
has re-posted sentiments about investment in both New Orleans East Summary: None of these choices
supporting guiding Black youth into and the Lower 9th while working are particularly exciting. Both Darren P. Lombard
careers in law enforcement, as well to rebuild homeownership in that Badon and Rounds’ records are Burghart H. Turner
as other posts supporting both BLM neighborhood. In her Louisiana disqualifying. Jones doesn’t have
protests and policing reforms. So, in house race, Clivens was endorsed the glaring red flags, but his actual Darren Lombard is the current Chair
short, an aspiring legacy politician by the AFL-CIO, the Louisiana politics remain unclear. of the DPEC and has been a court
and centrist. Federation of Teachers, UTNO, the clerk for years. Most notably, Lombard
Independent Women’s Organization, navigated the logistics of post-Katrina
Kaitlin Marone is a field organizer and The New Orleans Tribune. elections and has been praised for his
with Democratic Socialists of management skills. In 2018, Lombard
America (DSA) who co-founded We found no online campaign was elected to serve as clerk of the
their brake light clinic, which presence for Jenn Johnson. second city court which deals in small
provides a needed service, shares claims, civil lawsuits, and evictions
skills, and addresses the use of Summary: Alicia Clivens. with rental fees under $3,000 a month.