Casey O'Brien McDonough was born in [[Salt Lake City, Utah]]. He has served in the U.S. Army since 1997. His career experience includes working as an architectural consultant and as a coffee business owner.<ref name=bio>''Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 4, 2021''</ref>
Casey O'Brien McDonough was born in [[Salt Lake City, Utah]]. He began serving in the U.S. Army in 1997. His career experience includes working as an architectural consultant and as a coffee business owner.<ref name=bio>''Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 4, 2021''</ref>
==Elections==
==Elections==
===2021===
===2021===
Revision as of 15:24, 15 October 2021
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Casey O'Brien McDonough was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He began serving in the U.S. Army in 1997. His career experience includes working as an architectural consultant and as a coffee business owner.[1]
Casey O'Brien McDonough completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McDonough's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
Casey was born and raised near 9th & 9th with his six brothers and one sister who all graduated from East High School. He has worked in the architecture and construction field for more than 30 years. He started his own consulting business after serving as associate principal at a large local architectural firm. He also started a coffee business with multiple locations on campus at the University of Utah. Casey has served on a Board at Preservation Utah and served two terms on the Salt Lake City Business Advisory Board. He has worked with numerous city, county, and state departments on architectural, construction, and small business related issues. He is one of the lead organizers working to save and restore the Utah Pantages Theater which has expanded into other efforts to protect and save significant historic buildings across the city to all corners of the state. Casey is also a member of the Utah Army Nation[1]al Guard where he is a Sergeant and works as an aviation fueler. He was deployed to Afghanistan for most of 2020 returning home New Year Eve that same year. He has two children, Sebastian who is 12 and attends the Salt Lake Arts Academy, and Lillie who is 17 and attends both Highland High School and the School of Performing Arts.
"People must always come first, not money or special interests."
"Homelessness and public safety are not an issue or a problem, they are a crisis in our city, and current city leadership needs to treat it that way."
"Our current mayor toke at least 20% of her campaign contributions from developers, which begs the question, who does she represent and who does she answer too?"
My job as your elected official is to talk to you, understand what you want and don't want, understand what you care about, and represent you accordingly. I must ensure that you are as well informed as possible, that you have as much opportunity to make comments and have your voice heard at every level of our city government. I must be constantly engaged with you so I know what you are thinking and so I know you are as informed as you want or need to be. If I believe there is a plan or proposal that is a good idea, then it is my responsibility to inform you about it and convince you it is the right thing to do. If I can't convince you, I may express my disagreement, but in the end, I must always vote in the way that best represents your wishes and desires. You are my constituent and my purpose is to represent you. Property owners, developers, business, or other interests are important to our district and should always be considered, but you and residents in our district must come first, not money or special interests.
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Note: McDonough submitted the above survey responses to Ballotpedia on October 14, 2021.
My job as your elected official is to talk to you and everyone in our district, understand what everyone wants and doesn't want to happen, understand what everyone cares about, and represent you and everyone else accordingly. I must ensure that you are as well informed as possible, that you have as much opportunity to make comments and have your voices heard by myself and at every level of our city government. I must be constantly engaged with you and everyone else in the district so I know what you are thinking and to ensure you are all as informed as you need to be. If I believe there is a plan or proposal that is a good idea, it is my responsibility to inform everyone about it and convince you it is the right thing to do. If I can't convince you, I may disagree with you, but in the end, I must always vote in the way that best represents the wishes of my constituents. My purpose is to represent y constituents, not myself or my opinions. Property owners, developers, businesses, or other interests are important to our district and should always be considered, but you and your fellow constituents must come first, not money or special interests.
Homelessness is not a problem or an issue, it is a crisis. The Mayor and City Council say they are doing enough, but with this crisis getting worse and worse every day residents want action, not false and broken promises. This needs to change.
Public safety is not a problem or an issue, it is a crisis, Residents are taking the law into their own hands because the Mayor and City Council have created a system where law enforcement no longer has the manpower or resources to help with they are called for. This needs to change.
The Mayor and City Council are putting development and developers first, and residents and neighborhoods always second. With hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and rotten RDA deals like the one that would sacrifice the publicly loved Utah Pantages Theater in trade for corporate profits at the expense of tax payer dollars, there are too many questions about who the Mayor and City Council answer too. This needs to change.
I am passionate about what the voters in my district are passionate about. My key messages are just a few of the issues voters in my district are talking to me about. We also talk about the Mayor and City Council seemingly deaf, dumb, and blind to what the voters are telling them they want and don't want. No inland port, RDA reform, true affordable housing, transparency at all levels and in every corner of our city government, campaign finance reform, and on and on. The Mayor and City Council are great at telling us how great things are and about the great things they are doing, but the voters are tires of the herd of elephants in the room being ignored. That needs to change.
I look up to my parents and siblings, as well as my former in-laws. They all work to better themselves and the world around them always taking into account others and not just themselves.
My first job for someone else was washing dishes as our local Litzas Pizza when I was 15 years old. I quickly moved to the Sizzler next door when a friend of mine gave me a reference there. I worked there as a dishwasher, then busser, then salad bar attendant. Then another friend of mine was leaving on a church mission and I replaced him at an Architects office where I started drafting. I have been working in Architecture since then.
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Note: McDonough submitted the above survey responses to Ballotpedia on October 4, 2021.
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