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Larry Hopper
Larry Hopper ran for election to the Oklahoma City Council to represent Ward 4. Hopper lost in the primary on February 9, 2021.
Hopper completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2021
See also: City elections in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (2021)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Oklahoma City Council Ward 4
Incumbent Todd Stone won election outright against Sam Wargin Grimaldo and Larry Hopper in the primary for Oklahoma City Council Ward 4 on February 9, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Todd Stone (Nonpartisan) | 64.3 | 1,075 |
 | Sam Wargin Grimaldo (Nonpartisan) | 25.7 | 430 | |
 | Larry Hopper (Nonpartisan)  | 10.0 | 167 | |
| Total votes: 1,672 | |||
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Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Larry Hopper completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hopper's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Larry and his wife have lived in Ward 4 35+ years, never moved out of state, and raised three children who each graduated from a Ward 4 high school! Those and his 30+ years as a municipal worker (urban planner) helped fuel his desire to serve on Council.
Top Ten Issues
Mainly, people, paychecks, pandemic, police, places, and public services:
-Boost our economy via technology, tourism, and other jobs -Improve multicultural/cross-racial respect through military veterans and other strategies -Have Council transition to ten (10) wards, now only eight -Increase funding for police and understanding/respecting them -Listen to an act on needs of three distinct areas: rural, suburban, and urban -Urge Rother Shrine priority for tourism: better roads/landscaping and zoning protections abutting it -Adopt balanced budget -Improve transportation, fight neighborhood speeding -Address pandemic and boost a healthier community -Beautification (landfill, etc.); and investing in the Crossroads, CalleDosCinco, and Shields areas
-Improve multicultural/cross-racial respect through programming like story telling events, listening sessions, having City Council transition to ten (10) wards (now only eight), and starting a new volunteer corps of military veterans, and other strategies.
- -Improve transportation impacts in various ways, such fighting neighborhood speeding, initiating the five-city Bryant Bikeway, urging better transit, better traffic intersections and interchange capacity, a "road diet" treatment on SE 59th east of Bryant, and more.
- -Urge Rother Shrine priority for tourism (SE 89th): better abutting roads/medians/landscaping plus zoning protections to foster perpetual land use and signage compatibility in the abutting area
-Public health
-Job creation
-Social equity and multiculturalism
-Needs of people with disabilities
-Needs of children
to be fair, truthful, and build goodwill.
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
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