Dewayne Washington
Dewayne Washington ran for election for Mayor of Arlington in Texas. He lost in the general election on May 1, 2021.
Washington completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Dewayne Washington was born in Fort Worth, Texas. His professional experience includes being the executive director of The Gentlemen's Society.[1]
Elections
2021
See also: Mayoral election in Arlington, Texas (2021)
General runoff election
General runoff election for Mayor of Arlington
Jim Ross defeated Michael Glaspie in the general runoff election for Mayor of Arlington on June 5, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jim Ross (Nonpartisan) | 54.4 | 11,333 |
 | Michael Glaspie (Nonpartisan) | 45.6 | 9,484 | |
| Total votes: 20,817 | |||
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General election
General election for Mayor of Arlington
The following candidates ran in the general election for Mayor of Arlington on May 1, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jim Ross (Nonpartisan) | 47.4 | 14,782 |
| ✔ | | Michael Glaspie (Nonpartisan) | 21.1 | 6,590 |
 | Marvin Sutton (Nonpartisan) | 14.9 | 4,661 | |
| Kelly Burke (Nonpartisan) | 7.3 | 2,289 | ||
 | Dewayne Washington (Nonpartisan) | 5.1 | 1,597 | |
 | Doni Anthony (Nonpartisan) | 1.8 | 566 | |
| Cirilo Ocampo Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 1.2 | 368 | ||
| Total votes: 31,182 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jerry Warden (Nonpartisan) (Disqualified, appeared on ballot)
Campaign themes
2021
Video for Ballotpedia
| Video submitted to Ballotpedia Released February 18, 2021 |
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Dewayne Washington completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Washington's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Families over facilities
Reduction of debt
- Safer communities
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Campaign website
Washington's campaign website stated the following:
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The platform is pretty simple. I believe that government has a few responsibilities.
For Arlington specifically, that means:
This DOESN’T mean
These may seem trivial and you may also notice that there is no mention of crime, or economic development. There are reasons for this. Crime is a lagging indicator, not a leading indicator, which means that if you have an abundance of crime in your community, then there is something symptomatic that is causing the crime. While helpful, the answer to crime prevention can’t be dwarfed down to simply hiring more police officers. That’s the equivalent of merely hiring more nurses to help cure cancer. Police officers work under the executive branch of the law. Police officers help to enforce the law, for the most part, by RESPONDING to crimes that have ALREADY been committed. At some point, as a community, we need to deal with the lack of communication, resources, diversions, and opportunities that can often foster an environment for criminal activity. I believe that we can work to reduce crime by helping to facilitate fruitful relationships between our residents, providing needed resources for our residents, engaging in community building activities for our residents, and creating more gainful employment opportunities for our residents. Additionally, we are having challenges with some of our schools. As one who has spent over two decades working with children of all ages and many of those children being from underprivileged communities, one thing that I have learned is that in most cases the challenges that our schools have with serving our communities can also be reflective of the challenges that the schools themselves have in being supported by their communities. As with other aspects of our community, the success of our school system is dependent on the strength and synergy of the symbiotic relationship between our schools and our community. For instance, there can be a direct correlation between at-risk children in economically distressed families and poor academic performance. Conversely, the same can be true for a “failing school” and lack of parent participation and support in terms of correlation of occurrence. There is no silver bullet to fixing all of the challenges we face with our schools, but supporting our schools, supporting the families in our communities, and fostering productive relationships between teachers and parents would certainly help. Cities are made of people, not buildings. Good people, build communities, schools, businesses and buildings. So we should spend time and energy building our people – all of them. Arlington is the dream city, where the American dream can be lived out so, together, let’s LIVE THE DREAM.[2] |
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| —Dewayne Washington's campaign website (2021)[3] | ||
See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 19, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Dewayne Washington's campaign website, “Platform,” accessed March 22, 2021
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