Sharon Pincham
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Sharon Pincham ran for election to the Chicago City Council to represent Ward 6 in Illinois. She lost in the general election on February 28, 2023.
Pincham completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Sharon Pincham was born in Chicago, Illinois. She earned a bachelor's degree from Chicago State University in 1978 and additional education from DePaul University in 1991. Her career experience includes working in public service. Pincham has been affiliated with the Far Southside CAC, Ada S. Mckinley Foundation, Trinity United Church of Christ, and the Democratic Party.[1]
Elections
2023
See also: City elections in Chicago, Illinois (2023)
General runoff election
General runoff election for Chicago City Council Ward 6
William Hall defeated Richard A. Wooten in the general runoff election for Chicago City Council Ward 6 on April 4, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | William Hall (Nonpartisan) | 58.2 | 6,332 | |
 | Richard A. Wooten (Nonpartisan) | 41.8 | 4,543 | |
| Total votes: 10,875 | |||
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General election
General election for Chicago City Council Ward 6
The following candidates ran in the general election for Chicago City Council Ward 6 on February 28, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | William Hall (Nonpartisan) | 23.8 | 2,483 | |
| ✔ | | Richard A. Wooten (Nonpartisan) | 23.1 | 2,412 |
| Kimberly Egonmwan (Nonpartisan) | 8.4 | 878 | ||
| Barbara Ann Bunville (Nonpartisan) | 8.2 | 852 | ||
| Sharon Pincham (Nonpartisan) | 8.1 | 841 | ||
| Sylvester Baker Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 6.8 | 714 | ||
| Paul Bryson Sr. (Nonpartisan) | 5.7 | 591 | ||
| Aja Kearney (Nonpartisan) | 4.5 | 470 | ||
 | Patrick Brutus (Nonpartisan) | 4.3 | 448 | |
| Tavares Briggs (Nonpartisan) | 3.8 | 393 | ||
 | Kirby Birgans (Nonpartisan) | 3.3 | 342 | |
| Total votes: 10,424 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Steven Dejoie (Nonpartisan)
- Curtiss Bey (Nonpartisan)
Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Sharon Pincham completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Pincham'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 and raised in Chicago, Illinois. I attended Saint George and Bennett Elementary Schools and Harlan High School. My parents divorced when I was a year old and I was raised by my mother, a career social worker, my grandmother, a retired teacher and my grandfather, a postal worker, I worked full time while attending college earning a B.S. degree in Liberal Art with a concentration in Gerontology and Social Services at Chicago State University. After graduating from college, I worked at the Chicago Urban League while earning a Certificate in Rehabilitation Facility Administration at DePaul University. I began my career with the State of Illinois in the Department of Public Aid and spent the next 27 years in increasing responsibility to become the state-wide Assistant Administrator for the IN-Home Care program and Bureau Chief of Information and Referral in the Department of Human Services. I was proud to help minority agencies secure service delivery grants in the Chicago and East St. Louis areas.
My political education began working on the campaign of State Senator Richard Newhouse and continued with Chicago mayoral campaign of Harold Washington and then R. Eugene Pincham's campaign for Cook County Board President.
I married my high school sweetheart, Robert E. Pincham Jr., and started working as State Senator Elgie Sims Director of Constituent Services. I served on Gillespie and Harlan's Local School Councils for 5 consecutive terms.- As Alderman, I will work with the Chicago School Board to bring resources and programs back to our community public high schools that give our students the best path for success. Over the last few decades, we have seen our local public -school programs slashed, and our youth's resources taken away. We can't continue to leave our children behind; we need to invest heavily in our local public schools to bring back the curriculum, activities, and programs that they deserve.
- I am tired of seeing money and resources pass over our Ward. As your 6th Ward Alderwoman, I will not allow our Ward be left behind in this journey. I want to make sure that we are uplifting local businesses in the 6th ward and I will bring city, state, federal and private resources to the 6th Ward that our families and businesses deserve.
- I am and will be accessible. People shouldn't have to jump through hoops. I will make sure the process is transparent and accessible to get the funds and grants the 6th Ward needs. I encourage you to share your ideas so that I can help make them happen.to help improve our ward. This is not my Ward it is YOUR WARD!
I will work with our City Council and School Board to invest the resources into our schools that our children deserve. We are consistently setting up our children for failure by sending them off without the guidance and means to succeed. Inadequate education is a major contributor to poverty and crime. Our school board must expand its focus beyond college to include vocational and trade education. We must cast a wider tent over our children to provide other viable means of economic stability in our community as alternatives to crime.
The Chicago City Council and the Ward system allows for indirect, close response legislative representation. It can rightly be considered the first line of citizen representation and is closest to the people in the community; closer than the mayor, state representatives and state senators, and federal representatives and senators. It directly addresses bread and butter issues like neighborhood policing and transportation. Although Council members (Alderpersons) do not have direct jurisdiction over schools, they are in a unique position to advocate for the schools in their community.
I admire Michelle Obama. She handles adversity with poise, intelligence, wisdom and grace. Chicago's pioneer aldermen Oscar DePriest and William O. Dawson and Mayor Harold Washington are excellent examples of political figures who worked to empower the community.
Yes. I recommend the documentaries: The Promised Land (history of Chicago's Black Migration narrated by Morgan Freeman published by the Discovery Channel), Chicago::City of the Century ( a history of Chicago's explosive growth into one of the world's major cities produced by WBGH Boston and WTTW Chicago PBS) and Eyes On The Prize (history of the modern civil rights movement from the lynching of Emmitt Till through the anti Vietnam war Movement, the Cuban migration into Florida and the election of Black mayors in major cities including Gary, Indiana, Cleveland, Ohio and Harold Washington in Chicago.
Ethics, principals and the understanding that the fundamental purpose of the Alderperson is to works for and with their Ward constituents.
I have had thirty plus years administrative experience working with Illinois State agencies and its legislature coordinating resources with city government to the community. I have successfully helped minority agencies develop service delivery grants for homemaker and skilled care services to non-elderly, disabled constituents in the Chicago area. Now, I want to narrow the focus delivering services and resources to the 6th Ward.
The core responsibility is to serve the community.
It is absolutely important to share the skills, knowledge and information I possess so that others can expand upon and continue this work.
The modern Civil Rights Movement, the assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., President John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, the anti Vietnam war protests, the women's liberation movement, the space race, urban renewal and gentrification and the election of Mayor Harold Washington have all occurred throughout my lifetime.
While in High School I worked as a day camp counselor at Abbott Park. In my Junior and Senior years I was a stenographer for the Cook County Juvenile Court. In college I worked as a property management assistant at Travis Realty and as a service order clerk at Illinois Bell Telephone Company.
I have quite a few favorites. Right now I am reading the 1619 Project.
Fictional characters, both male and female are interesting and fun .Some are good guys, some are bad guys and most are ambiguous. Marvel comic's Shape Changer, the women warriors in the Black Panther film and the films protagonists, Star Wars characters like Yoda and the various Batman iterations and the Jocker's girlfriend (my grandchildren think she's cool!) are fun to imagine.
It seems that around every Christmas I get stuck on commercial jingles. Last Christmas it was Chuck Berry "It Wasn't Me". This year it's Hall and Oats "You Make My Dreams Come True".
I believe the Creator intended that our lives be a joyous struggle where we are challenge to do better, be better and leave the world a better place.
The power to participate in the budget and distribution of Ward Menu money that bring grants and business opportunities, access to state and federally funded programs, the distribution of police resources and promotion of community participation to direct infrastructure investment are among the important powers of the office.
The knowledge of how legislative government works to access resources and the ability to reach consensus with competing interest to bring the most benefit to the Ward residents is the most helpful skill for holders of this office to possess.
I can't without risking censorship. But another one is a joke is by Moms Mabley.
"My friend said "Moms, how can I commit suicide? I told her, go home and shoot yourself six inches below your left breast. Don't you know, that fool went home and shot herself in the knee!"
"My friend said "Moms, how can I commit suicide? I told her, go home and shoot yourself six inches below your left breast. Don't you know, that fool went home and shot herself in the knee!"
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See also
2023 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 12, 2022
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