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Rogelio Arcila
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Rogelio Arcila ran for election to the Atlanta City Council to represent District 4 in Georgia. He lost in the general election on November 2, 2021.
Arcila completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Rogelio Arcila was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Arcila earned a bachelor's degree from the College of Charleston in 2012. His career experience includes working as CEO of Roger's Tickets, LLC.[1]
Elections
2021
See also: City elections in Atlanta, Georgia (2021)
General runoff election
General runoff election for Atlanta City Council District 4
Jason Dozier defeated incumbent Cleta Winslow in the general runoff election for Atlanta City Council District 4 on November 30, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jason Dozier (Nonpartisan)  | 62.4 | 2,614 |
 | Cleta Winslow (Nonpartisan) | 37.6 | 1,578 | |
| Total votes: 4,192 | |||
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General election
General election for Atlanta City Council District 4
The following candidates ran in the general election for Atlanta City Council District 4 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cleta Winslow (Nonpartisan) | 31.3 | 1,482 |
| ✔ | | Jason Dozier (Nonpartisan) | 29.4 | 1,389 |
 | Kim Scott (Nonpartisan) | 13.5 | 640 | |
 | Rogelio Arcila (Nonpartisan) | 11.2 | 528 | |
| DeBorah Williams (Nonpartisan) | 9.1 | 432 | ||
 | Larry Carter (Nonpartisan) | 5.2 | 248 | |
| Ronald Zackery (Nonpartisan) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 9 | ||
| Total votes: 4,728 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Rogelio Arcila completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Arcila'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 was born to a Mayan mother of mixed-status and a father of Aztec ancestry. I have lived through the horrors of being raised from the shadows of society due to my mother’s mixed status. I have witnessed the pains and dehumanization of poverty firsthand. I have been displaced in my life living in the 4th District. I am now able to run a successful small business due to the community that took my family and me in to ensure our collective safety and well-being. I wish to do for others what has been done for me. To have the opportunity to run for office with my background is an immense honor and privilege!
- will work to create a jobs program that recruits people from the district to help rebuild our infrastructure and provide them a stable and livable wage. This jobs program will work to prevent long-lasting power outages caused by natural disasters, such as flooding and severe storms, by investing in infrastructure and reducing response times to address the damage.
- I will address the housing crisis that we have been experiencing by freezing property taxes for individual homeowners who live in neighborhoods where property taxes have increased by 10% or more for three years in a row and who have household incomes below the Atlanta median income ($65,000). I will also work to create a permanent legacy resident fund to prevent displacement. Money from the fund will be used to subsidize property taxes and/or home repairs for legacy residents who cannot afford to keep pace with rising costs and code violations.
- We need to ensure that residents are assisted who are and have descended from those who were directly impacted by redlining, racial covenants, Black Codes, and other past and current practices that severely impacted the ability to build and pass down wealth. We must address the inequalities and inequities that are rampant in our neighborhoods and in our communities.
Community Question Featured local question
Our campaign is 100% people-powered! We do not take any donations from any developers or professions associated with the violence of poverty like police unions. This is important because I am held accountable to my community, my supporters, my organizing home. I am held accountable not by large donors but by the neighbors who want to be safe in their communities, have proper infrastructure for their families, and desire a world not based on exploitation. The community leads the decision-making process; as a representative, I speak in sync with the people who have selected me. My office will continue to canvass residents on what is important to them throughout my term to ensure we accurately portray their stances in our legislation and priorities.
Community Question Featured local question
To address "crime" and public safety, we must recognize that year after year, City Council invests in one policy response at the exclusion and neglect of all others: heavier policing, aggressive prosecutions, and harsher punishments. We must have a holistic approach to public safety. The 27-year incumbent has proposed the same answer for every social ill, more policing. We are asking law enforcement officers to take time away from solving crimes to perform other tasks that they are not trained for and should not be held responsible for. My approach is evidence-based, data-driven, and founded on community-oriented solutions provided by the residents and community leaders. We need to meet the needs of the community by providing affordable housing options, protections, and safeguards for legacy residents as the city continues to grow, mobility justice throughout the city, accessible and affordable food options to combat the food apartheid in our district, mental health crisis teams, invest in policing alternatives and diversion initiatives, and platform community leaders and organizations with adequate resources and support that are seeking a holistic approach to public safety.
Community Question Featured local question
The City of Atlanta needs a Cannabis Green New Deal to ensure that it does it's part in healing the wounds of the so-called War on Drugs. Communities that were targeted by law enforcement needs to be first in line to receive the benefits and rewards of this billion-dollar industry.
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman.
“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course, we did.”
Community Question Featured local question
The transit options in Atlanta aren't inclusive, comprehensive, or expansive enough to repair the harms of past transit decisions that have exacerbated the inequalities in our city. While there have been improvements, it is not enough when the options aren't reliable, convenient, or affordable. We have a chance with the wealth of our city to make the necessary changes that our communities deserve; we can secure adequate and sustainable funding for the implementation of the ATL Vision Zero Action Plan, create a Vision Zero Task Force to create and oversee the implementation of an Action Plan, and ensure that the Action Plan addresses inequity concerns that would disproportionately affect people of color and low-income communities. I think Atlanta can live up to its radical history and achieve mobility justice in this city!
Community Question Featured local question
For infrastructure, fixing our neighborhood's streets is a priority, specifically, the potholes. Our neighborhood's streets are falling apart, and we all have the flat tires to prove it. I will work to guarantee safe, accessible, clean, and well-managed roads with traffic calming devices to stop speeding, stop signs, and sidewalks. In addition, I will create a jobs program that recruits people from the district to help rebuild our infrastructure and provide them a stable and livable wage. This jobs program will prevent long-lasting power outages caused by natural disasters, such as flooding and severe storms, by investing in infrastructure and reducing response times to address the damage! Our infrastructure needs are vast and we need to have a bold and fresh vision to imagine a city that works for all of us.
I am personally passionate about housing rights, tenant rights, wage theft, public safety, equity, and anti-poverty. The violence of poverty is a cause that has driven me to take up the honor to seek the selection of being the representative for District 4. We do not have to live with such violence in our everyday lives; we can charter a new course. We can provide housing for those who have none, we can provide financial support to those who have created the very culture Atlanta is known for, we can create job programs that allow for Atlantans to build Atlanta whilst protecting us from the dangers of the climate crisis. All of this can be done if we are bold enough to stand against the violence of poverty. This campaign is 100% people-powered, and this is crucial because it provides us the ability to fight against measures that would entrench our communities in more circumstances of violence. We need to ensure that while we are growing, we do not exclude anyone of us. We can reimagine our public safety by decentering police by placing a cap on their budget and reallocating those funds to neglected social services!
This office is directly connected to the people, it is the first layer of government and has the most impact on our day-to-day lives.
Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, otherwise known as Subcomandante Marcos, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore are two folks I look up to for guidance and analysis. They have helped form my understanding of politics, injustice, and the fight for our collective safety!
I would recommend The Autobiography of Malcolm X and All About Love.
That I care! When my time on this Earth is through, I will be satisfied to know all who came in contact with me felt my love. My love for the people, for the land, and for our collective safety and property. I wish to leave a legacy of love!
La Vida Es Un Carnaval - Celia Cruz
The budget of this city is decided upon by the legislators of our city government. City Councilpersons approve the priorities the city will take action upon. This is a power held by this office that has not yielded many rewards for the residents of District 4. More people should be aware that while Georgia law limits our ability to reduce the police budget, we can however cap the budget and direct those funds to the neglected social service programs that have left many in our communities unsafe, unhoused, and unfed.
I don't believe it is beneficial for holders of this office to have previous experience in government or politics. What I believe is beneficial is where their priorities lie. Holders of this office who stand against the plight of poverty and the plight of state violence towards Black, Brown, impoverished, and working-class communities are beneficial. The incumbent has been in this role for the past 27 years and we have seen some get wealthier while the vast majority are struggling to get by. 27 years of previous experience has led to the neglect of the people aside from the show of effort during election season. Experience in helping our communities obtain food, in creating public safety programs, in delivering resources to ensure that our people survive is beneficial. It is beneficial for the holders of this office to understand the conditions of violence towards the people they are representing. plans to rectify and remove that violence, and stand in solidarity by standing with the marginalized amongst us!
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 5, 2021
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