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Candidates were asked to limit responses to 50 words, answer the questions provided and avoid attacking opponents. Answers have been edited or cut for style and clarity or to adhere to guidelines.
Candidates have been listed in alphabetical order.
Why are you running for office?
To make a difference in the community.
What are the biggest challenges facing the city?
Economic issues and crime.
How do you plan to address these issues?
Investing in community programs: providing resources for after-school programs, job training and conflict resolution can help keep community.
What would your top priorities be if you are elected?
It's crucial that we take swift and decisive action to address gun violence before the summer season arrives and the risk of escalation increases. This issue cannot be ignored any longer.
Alyson Kennedy
Experience:
Representing the Socialist Workers Party. I ran for President in 2016 and 2020.
Occupation:
Cleaner at LSG Sky Chefs at the DFW airport
Contact Information:
817-899-6720
Why are you running for office?
To explain that conflicts among the imperialist and capitalist powers, their drive to secure raw materials and markets, and trade disputes will eventually end in military conflicts. This is the root of the assaults on the unions and the living and job conditions of working people, and of imperialism’s march toward WWIII.
What are the biggest challenges facing the city?
The importance of the fight for Black liberation in the U.S. Internationalism with our brothers and sisters, not the nationalism of the Democratic and Republican parties. Opposing the divisions the ruling class fosters against immigrant workers to drive down wages and working conditions. Fight for an amnesty.
How do you plan to address these issues?
Workers need to break with the Democrats and Republicans, the parties of the capitalist class and the bosses. We need a labor party to organize the working class to take political power. Working people have no interest in exploitation or another world war.
What would your top priorities be if you are elected?
Supporting the right of Israel to defend itself as a refuge for Jews. Fighting the growing hatred and antisemitism. Supporting sovereignty for Ukraine. Moscow out now. Defending constitutional protections. Backing union struggles. Workers need to take power and create a new state based on solidarity and cooperation.
Jeremy F. Labelle
Why are you running for office?
Candidate did not respond to request for comment.
What are the biggest challenges facing the city?
Candidate did not respond to request for comment.
How do you plan to address these issues?
Candidate did not respond to request for comment.
What would your top priorities be if you are elected?
Candidate did not respond to request for comment.
Josh Lucas
Experience:
Board Member, The Justice Network of Tarrant County; Treasurer, for Cindy Stormer; MDiv Candidate, Brite.
Occupation:
Community Ministries Coordinator, Broadway Baptist Church
Candidate Website:
www.joshlucasformayor.com
Contact Information:
817-502-3982
Why are you running for office?
All of us want Fort Worth to be a city with safe streets, good schools and a strong sense of community. Currently, our local officials are working for some. As your mayor, I will fight for the things that will make life better for everyone in Fort Worth.
What are the biggest challenges facing the city?
Our city faces major challenges: school closures, hiring a new chief of police and the urgent need for jail diversion programs for both juveniles and the mentally vulnerable. Strong infrastructure is also critical to support our growing community.
How do you plan to address these issues?
Addressing these issues requires leadership that prioritizes safety, education and smart investments in our future. I will prioritize transparency and communication about the choices our city council is making so that everyone has the opportunity to engage with these decisions, not just a powerful few.
What would your top priorities be if you are elected?
As mayor, I’d prioritize infrastructure, public safety and jail diversion, including a youth program using Fort Worth’s cultural arts. I’d also lead a national search for our next police chief to ensure strong, accountable leadership. These steps will create a safer, more vibrant city for everyone.
Mattie Parker
Occupation:
Mayor of Fort Worth
Candidate Website:
www.mattieformayor.com
Contact Information:
[email protected]
Why are you running for office?
Candidate did not respond to request for comment.
Why are you running for office?
Candidate did not respond to request for comment.
How do you plan to address these issues?
Candidate did not respond to request for comment.
What would your top priorities be if you are elected?
Candidate did not respond to request for comment.
Lawrence E. Walker II
Experience:
Able to clearly and simply communicate a strategic plan, goals and/or objectives to inspire and energize others to engage and commit. Excellent problem solving skills.
Occupation:
Entrepreneur
Candidate Website:
https://www.pcuincorporated.org/html/mayorPage.html
Contact Information:
817-207-9898
Why are you running for office?
As a tax-payer, voter and community advocate, I believe the shared resources of the city should be distributed more equitably. I advocate for more accessibility, equity and transparency so that voters can make more informed decisions.
What are the biggest challenges facing the city?
Accessibility, equity and transparency at the municipal and county level.
How do you plan to address these issues?
By continuing to work with the individuals and organizations that understand the issues and how to solve them, like in my professional life.
What would your top priorities be if you are elected?
Housing, education, transportation and public works, economic development and parks and recreation.
Chris Wood
Experience:
Treasurer of “Inner City Outings” of Dallas Sierra Club Founder, Clean All Mercury Company
Occupation:
Website developer
Candidate Website:
www.woodformayor.com
Contact Information:
[email protected]
Why are you running for office?
I would like to enhance communication between citizens and the city council by combining public comment meetings with council meetings. I would like to help citizens prioritize safety, self-care and mutual support. Additionally, I want to strengthen crime prevention by expanding mental health resources.
What are the biggest challenges facing the city?
The biggest challenge facing Tarrant County is lowered levels of well-being. Citizens deserve a higher quality of life. Also, there needs to be improved communication with city council by combining public comment meetings with council meetings and providing guidance to citizens on how to effectively communicate.
How do you plan to address these issues?
To enhance the well-being of citizens, I would develop a website dedicated to how to pursue happiness. I would give life satisfaction surveys to identify areas needing improvement and address those areas. Additionally, I would combine council meetings with public comment meetings and provide guidance on how to communicate.
What would your top priorities be if you are elected?
Promote safety first in public, at home and around acquaintances, encourage self-care, foster citizen mutual support, measure life satisfaction of citizens, then take action based on areas needing enhancement, improve communication between citizens and council, raise crime prevention efforts by increasing mental health resources
Millennium Anton C. Woods Jr.
Experience:
I'm a universal linguistics expert and a community civil rights activist
Occupation:
Private personal trainer
Contact Information:
[email protected]
Why are you running for office?
I'm running for mayor because I want to see a change in the educational, financial and environmental reciprocity within the local, state and federal government.
What are the biggest challenges facing the city?
There isn't much educational, financial, and environmental reciprocity in the less prioritized parts of Fort Worth, and in community like it across the country. Our education is essential to a well, productive community.
How do you plan to address these issues?
I plan to address these issues through local, state, and federal legislation by pushing for an audit on the federal government protecting the interest of the educational, financial, and environmental reciprocity in my community.
What would your top priorities be if you are elected?
I will investigate the Civil Right Act, to see if it has been upheld properly by the U.S. government. Then I will address the educational, financial, and environmental reciprocity in the courts on behalf of my community, utilizing the resources in the authority of the local government to address such issues.
