Become part of the movement for unbiased, accessible election information. Donate today.

Anne Campbell Washington

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search
BP-Initials-UPDATED.png
This page was current at the end of the official's last term in office covered by Ballotpedia. Please contact us with any updates.
Anne Washington
Image of Anne Washington
Prior offices
Oakland City Council District 4

Education

Bachelor's

Carnegie Mellon University

Graduate

University of California, Berkeley

Contact

Personal website

Anne Washington was a member of the Oakland City Council in California, representing District 4. Washington assumed office on January 5, 2015.

Washington ran for re-election to the Oakland City Council to represent District 4 in California. Washington won in the general election on November 4, 2014.

Biography

Email editor@ballotpedia.org to notify us of updates to this biography.

Campbell-Washington holds a B.S. in Industrial Management/Graphic Communications Management from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.P.P from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her professional experience includes working as the Director of Operations & Special Projects at the Stuart Foundation in San Francisco and as the Executive Director of the I Have A Dream Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was also the Chief of Staff to former Oakland mayor Jerry Brown and current mayor Jean Quan.[1]

Campaign themes

2014

On her campaign website, Campbell-Washington highlighted the following issues and provided bullet points on how she would address them.[2]
Public safety

  • "Ensuring that every neighborhood is safe, beautiful and clean with excellent schools through the work, services and programs provided by Public Works, Human Services, Parks and Recreation and OUSD."
  • "Funding academies and additional efforts to curb officer attrition so that through hiring and retention we build a department of 900 officers."
  • "Ensuring police officers have the equipment and training necessary for their roles."
  • "Increasing efforts to make community policing simply the way we police the city."
  • "Funding and maintaining focus on the implementation of Ceasefire."
  • "Protecting our Fire Department’s assets and working to restore the Wildfire Protection Assessment District."

Education

  • "Providing support to Head Start and early intervention programs."
  • "Ensuring the issue of chronic absenteeism becomes a top City priority."
  • "Increasing partnerships with the business community to adopt their local schools to provide tutoring, mentoring and jobs for Oakland youth."
  • "Advocating for the Oakland Reads 2020 Campaign to ensure all students are reading at grade level by 3rd grade."

Jobs and employment

  • "Maintaining and improving the City’s strong financial picture through sound budgeting practices and financial policies."
  • "Supporting Oakland’s local independent businesses and artists and ensuring that they can thrive in District 4 business districts and in the City as a whole."
  • "Building consensus on the Council to speak with a unified voice to the business and developer community to build trust in investing here."
  • "Developing the regulatory infrastructure to ensure that smart growth does not mean resident displacement."
  • "Ensuring that necessary infrastructure projects are included with the City's growth plan."

Elections

2014

See also: Oakland, California municipal elections, 2014

City council elections in Oakland took place on November 4, 2014. The filing deadline was August 8, 2014.[3] In District 4, Anne Campbell Washington defeated Jill Broadhurst and Paul Lim.[4][5] Incumbent Elizabeth "Libby" Schaaf did not run for re-election, because she ran for mayor.

Oakland City Council, District 4, 2014
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngAnne Campbell Washington 64.2% 11,358
Jill Broadhurst 30.1% 5,335
Paul Lim 5.7% 1,011
Total Votes 17,704
Source: Alameda County Elections - 2014 General Election Results

Recent news

This section links to a Google news search for the term "Anne + Washington + Oakland"


Anne Washington News Feed

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named bio
  2. ↑ Annie for Oakland, "Issues," accessed September 23, 2014
  3. ↑ City of Oakland "Municipal Election November 4, 2014," accessed March 10, 2014
  4. ↑ City of Oakland "Candidates for the November 4, 2014 Election - Districts 2, 4, and 6, Mayor and City Auditor," accessed March 10, 2014
  5. ↑ Alameda County Registrar of Voters, "2014 Unofficial General Election Results," accessed November 4, 2014
Political offices
Preceded by
Elizabeth "Libby" Schaaf 		Oakland City Council, District 4
2015-Present 		Succeeded by
NA
v • e
2014 Elections for Mayors and City Councils
MayorsMunicipal Government Final.png
City Councils
Flag of California
v • e
State of California
Sacramento (capital)
Elections

What's on my ballot? | Elections in 2025 | How to vote | How to run for office | Ballot measures

Government

Who represents me? | U.S. President | U.S. Congress | Federal courts | State executives | State legislature | State and local courts | Counties | Cities | School districts | Public policy


Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Anne_Campbell_Washington&oldid=9662568"