Corey Zinn
Corey Zinn (Democratic Party) ran for election for an at-large seat of the Charleston City Council in West Virginia. He lost in the Democratic primary on May 10, 2022.
Zinn completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Corey Zinn was born in Charleston, West Virginia. Zinn earned a bachelor's degree from West Virginia University in 2014. His career experience includes working as a creative consultant. Zinn has been affiliated with Create WV.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: City elections in Charleston, West Virginia (2022)
General election
General election for Charleston City Council (6 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Charleston City Council on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Caitlin Cook (D) | 11.0 | 7,119 | |
| ✔ | Becky Ceperley (D) | 11.0 | 7,098 | |
| ✔ | Shawn Taylor (D) | 10.9 | 7,084 | |
| ✔ | Jennifer Pharr (D) | 10.9 | 7,082 | |
| ✔ |  | Emmett Pepper (D)  | 10.5 | 6,778 |
| ✔ | Joe Solomon (D) | 10.2 | 6,574 | |
| Mark Sadd (R) | 8.9 | 5,751 | ||
| Courtney Persinger (R) | 8.0 | 5,189 | ||
| John Bsharah (R) | 7.9 | 5,145 | ||
| Larry Malone (R) | 7.7 | 4,985 | ||
 | Jerry Tucker (L) | 2.8 | 1,809 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 121 | ||
| Total votes: 64,735 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michael Husson (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Charleston City Council (6 seats)
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Charleston City Council on May 10, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Jennifer Pharr | 12.8 | 2,652 | |
| ✔ | Caitlin Cook | 12.4 | 2,563 | |
| ✔ | Becky Ceperley | 11.0 | 2,286 | |
| ✔ | Joe Solomon | 10.7 | 2,209 | |
| ✔ | | Emmett Pepper | 10.0 | 2,080 |
| ✔ | Shawn Taylor | 9.1 | 1,880 | |
| Corey Zinn | 8.9 | 1,852 | ||
| Chuck Hamsher | 8.0 | 1,649 | ||
| Deanna McKinney | 7.5 | 1,552 | ||
| Jonathan Frazier | 5.2 | 1,069 | ||
| Jeni Riser | 4.6 | 948 | ||
| Total votes: 20,740 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Charleston City Council (6 seats)
Mark Sadd, incumbent Courtney Persinger, Larry Malone, and John Bsharah advanced from the Republican primary for Charleston City Council on May 10, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mark Sadd | 28.5 | 1,418 | |
| ✔ | Courtney Persinger | 26.1 | 1,300 | |
| ✔ | Larry Malone | 23.2 | 1,156 | |
| ✔ | John Bsharah | 22.3 | 1,110 | |
| Total votes: 4,984 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Corey Zinn completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Zinn's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I’m a white 30 year old cis-gender male, and I believe in justice for every person on this planet. I do everything I can to stand up for injustice and check my belief systems and perspectives. I grew up with a very comfortable life in South Hills that many do not have access to. I moved to the West Side in 2017 for many reasons: cheap real estate, walkability, access to the river, but truly most of all I wish to celebrate diversity and all live together.
- Small business support should include "micro business" support. We need to empower the average person with the ability to build a living for themselves, their family, or their community. By reducing barriers to business ownership; showing grace and incentives to startups of all walks of life especially youth, immigrants, women, and minorities; and improving customer service at the City Collector’s Office, we can generate more revenue for the city, accelerate the economy, and improve our quality of place over time. Small business support should be for everyone, especially those without means that want to dedicate their lives to a Mom and Pop operation and make Charleston a better place to live for all and retain population.
- I believe we need to be doing much more for our public health. This includes legalizing CDC’s recommended best practice needs-based harm reduction. We are in the middle of an unprecedented HIV outbreak and we need to be doing more in education about limiting spread and getting tested. We also need to begin allocating funds to low barrier shelters and wraparound homeless services. I’m gravely concerned for the rising stigma against both drug addicts and the homeless. I believe it has been exacerbated by the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic and polarizing social media algorithms. We need to educate the public so we may all agree on what policies are the most harmful to this suffering population.
- I am working to invest in the West Side, which hasn’t received the attention it deserves in the city especially being made up of majority African American and communities of color. I’m particularly concerned for the youth, making sure we have opportunities for them, and that we are treating them properly when they’ve been undergoing trauma within their families or community. We also know that cannabis related offenses are a gateway to get young adults into the prison system, and these outdated policies are harming communities of color and low income families far more than wealthy or white neighbors. We can decriminalize cannabis in the City of Charleston and we are collecting signatures for a ballot initiative to end jail time, court fees,
There are many nuances that small business owners face throughout each quarter that would make processes easier for both the business owners and the city administration.
Summer of 2021, we witnessed the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the bombing during the pull out, the US drone strike on a community organizer and his children transporting water. We've seen 20 years of civilians and undocumented deaths from drone strikes inspiring new waves of terrorist organizations. Even though she knew this resolution was inevitable all those years ago, Barbara Lee stood up to 420 representatives by herself in US Congress as an African American woman and said, "Let us not become the evil that we deplore."
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 11, 2022
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