Dan Burroughs
Dan Burroughs was a candidate for District 4 representative on the Atlanta City Council in Georgia. Burroughs was defeated in the general election on November 7, 2017. Click here to read Burroughs' response to Ballotpedia's 2017 municipal candidate survey.
Elections
2017
The city of Atlanta, Georgia, held a general election for mayor, city council president, three at large council members, 13 by district council members, and two city judges on November 7, 2017.[1] The following candidates ran in the general election for District 4 seat on the city council.[2]
| Atlanta City Council District 4, General Election, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Cleta Winslow Incumbent |
42.42% | 2,001 |
| Jason Dozier |
19.80% | 934 |
| Kim Parmer | 13.93% | 657 |
| Christopher Brown | 9.86% | 465 |
| DeBorah Williams | 9.54% | 450 |
| Shawn Walton | 1.76% | 83 |
| Dan Burroughs | 1.51% | 71 |
| MR Adassa | 1.19% | 56 |
| Total Votes | 4,717 | |
| Source: Fulton County, Georgia, "November 7, 2017 Municipal General and Special Elections," accessed November 7, 2017 These election results are unofficial and will be updated after official vote totals are made available. | ||
Campaign themes
2017
Burroughs participated in Ballotpedia's 2017 survey of municipal government candidates.[3] The following sections display his responses to the survey questions. When asked what his top priority would be if elected, the candidate made the following statement:
| “ | My top priority would be working with Atlanta Public Schools, as well as all of our local colleges, universities and trade schools, to ensure that APS offers all Atlanta students a world-class public education, one which especially stresses creative, critical thinking and teaches the fundamentals of law, entrepreneurship and finance, so that by the time our children are adults and can sign their names on documents, they know enough to avoid many ruinous decisions.[4] | ” |
| —Dan Burroughs (September 28, 2017)[5] | ||
Ranking the issues
The candidate was asked to rank the following issues by importance in the city, with 1 being the most important and 12 being the least important: city services (trash, utilities, etc.), civil rights, crime reduction/prevention, environment, government transparency, homelessness, housing, K-12 education, public pensions/retirement funds, recreational opportunities, transportation, and unemployment. This table displays this candidate's rankings from most to least important.
| Issue importance ranking | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate's ranking |
Issue | Candidate's ranking |
Issue |
| K-12 education | Crime reduction/prevention | ||
| Housing | Homelessness | ||
| Transportation | Unemployment | ||
| Government transparency | Public pensions/retirement funds | ||
| Civil rights | Environment | ||
| City services | Recreational opportunities | ||
Nationwide municipal issues
The candidate was asked to answer questions from Ballotpedia regarding issues facing cities across America. The questions are in the left column and the candidate's responses are in the right column. Some questions provided multiple choices, which are noted after those questions.
| Question | Response |
|---|---|
| Very important | |
| State | |
| Increased economic opportunities | |
| Focusing on small business development | |
| I'm most proud of the people who make Atlanta what it is. We have a truly diverse population by all metrics, and the creativity, culture and livliness which all these people contribute to our city make Atlanta truly unique. | |
| Out of 50 major U.S. cities, Atlanta ranks dead last in terms of one's probability for rising from poverty. This must change immediately. |
Burroughs provided the following additional comments with his survey response:[5]
| “ |
What District 4 needs right now is engaged leadership who will: 1) Ensure that District 4 recieves it's fair share of all manner of municipal improvements, from MARTA expansion to school improvements, city services to beautification. 2) Ceaselessly pursue the absentee landlords who's dilapidated houses are blighting our neighborhoods. 3) Act as a standard bearer for ethical behavior and government transparency. What the city needs as a whole is: 1) To ensure that all Atlanta students have access to a world-class public education which readies them not just for college and trade schools, but equips them with the knowledge to be as empowered as possible in the American economy. 2) Ensure that our new increases in transportation funding are spent wisely and expeditiously to expand MARTA service and transition the system to 24/7 operation. 3) Set a global standard in municipal government transparency by creating a daily-updated database of all city expenditures by department. This database should also include all outstanding bids for city contracts and information on who the bidders are. City Hall should keep a public visitor list of all lobbyists. Additionally, all neighborhood and NPU meetings should be videoed, streamed live online, and archived for public use.[4] |
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| —Dan Burroughs (2017) | ||
Recent news
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See also
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External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Georgia Secretary of State, "2017 Elections and Voter Registration Calendar," accessed February 24, 2017
- ↑ City of Atlanta, "2017 General Municipal Election," accessed September 21, 2017
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ballotpedia's municipal government candidate survey, 2017, "Dan Burroughs's Responses," September 28, 2017
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