Carolina Celnik

Carolina Celnik

Republican Party

Education

Bachelor's

American University

Contact

Personal website

Carolina Celnik is a former candidate for an at-large seat on the Council of the District of Columbia. She ran in the general election on November 8, 2016.

Biography

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Celnik received her B.A. in economics from American University.

Campaign themes

2016

Celnik's campaign website listed the following themes for 2016:

“	Education I support the idea that our public schools should be focused on providing the best education possible for our children, preparing them for the job market and making them well rounded citizens. A dysfunctional education system disproportionately affects the poorest families of this great city, creating a cycle of underachievement and poverty. Create an Environment of High Standards: For our children to succeed we must push them to their highest potential. This can only be done through vigorously enforced high standards that ensure all students are proficient reading, writing, and math. This strong foundation in the basics will give our students the self confidence and structure to grow academically and to succeed in the job market. Reward Teaching: We must ensure our good teachers are paid appropriately for their talent and success in the classroom. It is also important that D.C. is able to attract top talent to teach, and is able to retain top teaching talent. Protect School Choice: It is vital to allow parents who have children in poorly performing schools to have the option to move their children into a more enriching environment. Our charter school have a proven record in producing higher results for students while also using less funds and more flexibility to fit the needs of their students. The D.C. voucher program does a good job of giving the city’s families this flexibility while protecting the funding of our existing school’s funding levels. Economic Competitiveness In the past decade the economy of DC has slowed dramatically, and the GDP per capita has decreased. As we move forward we must focus on diversifying our economy, making it less reliant on federal spending, growing our private sector. Rethinking our Taxes and Regulation. Bringing our tax and regulatory climate in line with the region will help bring in investment, and encourage more companies to move into the district. A competitive tax policy will encourage businesses and individuals to stay in DC, increasing revenue for the city. Rethinking our regulatory policy, we can make it simpler and easier to follow, while maintaining strong protections for our residents. Make Government Work for Us. We must also make our government more user friendly, making it easier for ordinary citizens to access government agencies and to create their own businesses. The complexity of our city government dissuades the economically disadvantaged from making the most of government services and tools, and from opening their own businesses. Work with our Universities and Institutions. The new knowledge economy depends on the free exchange of information between researchers, areas of learning, and business. We need to work with our breadth of universities and research institutions to create robust startup incubators and to attract the financing to fund our next generation of business innovators. Ensuring the next generation of innovative companies are created and grow in D.C., we can create thousands of jobs and opportunities for our residents. Transportation Our city relies on a strong transportation network that is able to get people and goods safely, quickly, and efficiently from place to place. To remain nationally and internationally competitive we must ensure we spend our resources smartly to create a forward thinking world class transportation system. Roads: Moving forward D.C. must work to develop a true 21st century road network. It is the only part of our transportation system that everyone uses whether it is on foot, bike, bus, or car. Our roads must be able to handle all these forms of traffic safely and efficiently, balancing the need for liveable neighborhoods and easy mobility. Metro: As the backbone of our public transportation system metrorail must be up to the needs of our growing city. As the events of the past few years have shown us, too many funds have been diverted away from maintenance, compromising the system’s safety and reliability. Over the past eight years this has diverted more riders away from metrorail and towards cars, worsening D.C.’s traffic. Along with many people in the district, I rely on the metro to get around the city. When we cannot rely on metro to get us where we need to go it makes our commute longer, more complicated, and limits our job and entertainment options. To make the system more reliable we must restructure metro, ensuring it spends all of its fund intended for maintenance and develops and safety culture. Bus: Our bus system is an indispensable part of our transportation system cheaply connecting the part of our city that are not served by metrorail. They have many advantages over rail since they are more flexible and cheaper to implement. For D.C. to grow we must think boldly about our bus network, making it more reliable and faster. This would open up vast opportunities for the city’s residents allowing them to access more of our region's job centers at a fraction the cost of a rail alternative. Housing Affordability As the District of Columbia's population has grown rapidly over the past five years the price of housing has gotten out of reach for many residents. The only guaranteed way to lower and stabilize the price of housing is for the city to build enough to keep up with demand. We must encourage development in the depressed areas of our Northeast and Southeast. This new housing will provide more services and jobs for many of the existing residents in those neighborhoods and keep their housing costs stable. In addition, D.C. must also make it cheaper to build, streamlining our zoning and permitting process to make sure our new units are affordable. The building process must also be made more transparent, allowing residents to play a greater role in shaping their neighborhoods. This new housing must be mixed, geared towards both many of our new young residents, and families who are finding it ever harder to find housing in the city.	”
—Carolina Celnik (2016),

Elections

2016

Carolina Celnik ran unopposed in the Washington, D.C. Council At-large Republican primary election.

Washington, D.C. Council At-large, Republican Primary Election, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Carolina Celnik  (unopposed)	89.69%	1,270
Write-in votes	10.31%	146
Total Votes		1,416
Source: District of Columbia Board of Elections, "Primary Election 2016 - Certified Results," June 28, 2016

The following candidates ran in the Washington, D.C. Council At-large general election.

Washington, D.C. Council At-large, General Election, 2016
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Robert White Incumbent	52.80%	233,983
	Independent	David Grosso Incumbent	24.54%	108,745
	Green	G. Lee Aikin	6.58%	29,165
	Republican	Carolina Celnik	6.50%	28,823
	Independent	John Cheeks	5.58%	24,714
	Libertarian	Matt Klokel	3.20%	14,178
		Write-in votes	0.8%	3,536
Total Votes				443,144
Source: District of Columbia Board of Elections, "General Election 2016 - Unofficial Results," accessed November 8, 2016

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See also

• Washington, D.C.
• Municipal elections in Washington, D.C. (2016)
• United States municipal elections, 2016

External links

Suggest a link

• District of Columbia Board of Elections, "List of Candidates in the June 14, 2016 Primary Election"
• Campaign website