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Angie Maloney
Angie Maloney ran for election to the Chicago City Council to represent Ward 47 in Illinois. Maloney lost in the general election on February 26, 2019.
Maloney completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Maloney responded to Ballotpedia's unique candidate survey for 2019 Chicago candidates. The survey questions were developed with input from more than 100 Chicagoans in the months preceding the 2019 election. Here is one selected response:
"We need more social workers, smaller class sizes, and more movement for our students. We need more student-driven curriculum, and varying ways to assess students. We can do a better job of making schools developmentally appropriate."
Click here to read more of Maloney's responses.
Elections
2019
See also: City elections in Chicago, Illinois (2019)
General runoff election
General runoff election for Chicago City Council Ward 47
Matt Martin defeated Michael Negron in the general runoff election for Chicago City Council Ward 47 on April 2, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Matt Martin (Nonpartisan)  | 62.5 | 11,813 |
 | Michael Negron (Nonpartisan) | 37.5 | 7,089 | |
| Total votes: 18,902 | |||
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General election
General election for Chicago City Council Ward 47
The following candidates ran in the general election for Chicago City Council Ward 47 on February 26, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Matt Martin (Nonpartisan) | 39.3 | 7,586 |
| ✔ | | Michael Negron (Nonpartisan) | 21.4 | 4,126 |
 | Eileen Dordek (Nonpartisan) | 17.5 | 3,373 | |
 | Jeff Jenkins (Nonpartisan) | 8.3 | 1,602 | |
| Heather Way Kitzes (Nonpartisan) | 4.8 | 931 | ||
| Angie Maloney (Nonpartisan) | 4.6 | 888 | ||
| Thomas Schwartzers (Nonpartisan) | 1.9 | 372 | ||
| Gus Katsafaros (Nonpartisan) | 1.8 | 344 | ||
| Kimball Ladien (Nonpartisan) | 0.4 | 75 | ||
| Total votes: 19,297 | |||
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Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Chicago 2019 Candidate Survey
Angie Maloney completed Ballotpedia's Chicago candidates survey for 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Maloney's responses.
Low-income families do not have the same choices, options, or alternatives when it comes to public school. How can this be addressed?
We need to level the playing field when it comes to public schools. As a teacher, I have seen and experienced the inequities between schools on opposite sides of the city. It's not enough to talk about equal funding - we need to talk about making it equitable. There are ways we can supplement each school's funding based on a school's inability to fundraise. We also need to revisit student-based-budgeting as it creates problems for schools.
What do you believe are the greatest needs of kids in school today? How would you prioritize these needs and address them?
We need more social workers, smaller class sizes, and more movement for our students. We need more student-driven curriculum, and varying ways to assess students. We can do a better job of making schools developmentally appropriate.
Do you believe that there is corruption in Chicago politics, such as pay-to-play practices when the city awards bids? If so, how would you address it?
I would start by empowering the Inspector General's office to oversee the City Council, and all city budgets. I would lobby for no outside employment on conflict for elected city officials. We would also do well to start a system of providing information to voters of the various affiliations between politicians and their fundraising and business ties, so that voters can consider these affiliations in their discernment of candidates.
How would you handle the “recurrence of unaddressed racially discriminatory conduct by officers” identified in the U.S. Justice Department’s investigative report of the Chicago PD published in 2017?
We need to work hard immediately to build trust between communities of color and our police officers. This is not a discrete problem, but a complex relationship that involves inherent power imbalances and bad feelings on both sides of the relationship. An elected civilian oversight board will help to rebuild trust on the civilian side, having civilians on site at the scene of any shootings, and having the ability to investigate and collectively take staffing actions. To seed deeper culture changes in the relationship between officers and the public, we should consider a program of empathic listening sessions to build understanding between both parties in the relationship.
What sort of proposals would help reduce police shootings and fatalities?
We can also do a better job of supporting our first responders in their training, mental health support, and workload to assist in their ability to respond in dangerous, high-pressure situations.
How would you address the displacement of people of color and long-term residents from their neighborhoods?
We need a city-wide commission to address displacement and gentrification. These phenomena look different on each side of the city, but it is a city-wide problem, and there are city-wide solutions waiting to be formed and implemented. We need to survey the people who are being displaced and solve those discrete problems. We need to do a better job serving the poorest among us, and making sure there are community benefit agreements for large developments.
What’s your opinion on tax increment financing (a program that funds development using any additional property tax revenue that results from an increase in appraised property values)? What, if any, changes would you make to the use of TIF?
TIF district revenues should be able to be spent in truly blighted areas. We can continue to collect the supplementary tax revenue, but after an area has stabliized and is no longer blighted, that revenue needs to shift to areas that actually need them - be it schools, social services or development in blighted areas, or paying down our city debt to stabilize our city finances.
Would you be in favor of freezing property taxes, at least for low-income households, so that people can stay where they are living?
We need to revisit how our property taxes are levied on the low-income and the long-time residents so that we are not forcing these people out of their homes.
How would you make Chicago a cleaner city with less waste and pollution?
Chicago can be a leader in green energy and city-wide composting. The environment should be a priority and we must reopen the Office of the Environment.
What would be your first steps for improving the transit system in terms of affordability, accessibility, and safety?
Any transit price increases need to consider not being raised for the low-income reduced-fare customers. We would do well to test out some bus-rapid-transit to see if it spurs and increase in ridership, in order to increase revenues and boost the overall public transit system.
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See also
2019 Elections
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