Charles Anderson (Louisiana)
Charles Anderson was a Democratic candidate for mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana. Anderson was defeated in the primary election on October 14, 2017. Click here for Anderson's campaign themes for 2017.
Biography
Anderson is a visual artist who specializes in depicting peace activists and the victims of violence in New Orleans. He is also a local activist who founded CeaseFire New Orleans to end violent crimes in the city.[1]
Elections
2017
The following candidates ran in the primary election for mayor of New Orleans.
| Mayor of New Orleans, Primary Election, 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  LaToya Cantrell |
39.00% | 32,025 | |
| Democratic | Desiree Charbonnet |
30.48% | 25,028 | |
| Democratic | Michael Bagneris | 18.76% | 15,405 | |
| Democratic | Troy Henry | 6.42% | 5,270 | |
| Democratic | Tommie Vassel | 1.36% | 1,120 | |
| Independent | Hashim Walters | 0.56% | 462 | |
| Democratic | Thomas Albert | 0.56% | 456 | |
| Independent | Edward Bruski | 0.55% | 450 | |
| Democratic | Frank Scurlock | 0.47% | 385 | |
| No Party | Manny Chevrolet Bruno | 0.32% | 264 | |
| No Party | Derrick O'Brien Martin | 0.29% | 238 | |
| Independent | Patrick Van Hoorebeek | 0.28% | 232 | |
| Democratic | Charles Anderson | 0.28% | 230 | |
| No Party | Byron Cole | 0.26% | 212 | |
| No Party | Matthew Hill | 0.13% | 108 | |
| Democratic | Edward Collins Sr. | 0.12% | 96 | |
| Democratic | Brandon Dorrington | 0.11% | 92 | |
| Democratic | Johnese Smith | 0.05% | 38 | |
| Total Votes | 82,111 | |||
| Source: Louisiana Secretary of State, "Saturday, October 14, 2017," accessed October 14, 2017 | ||||
Campaign themes
2017
Anderson's campaign website listed the following themes for 2017:
| “ |
Over the next 4 years (2018-2022), I propose that the city of New Orleans create a city-wide, street-level violence intervention program that will cover the majority of hotspots of gun violence on New Orleans’ streets. The violence intervention program will use street-credible, skillfully trained, highly effective violence interrupters to stop potentially violent interactions before they become deadly. Gun violence can be stopped. New Orleans has the proven program to stop the epidemic of violence. The key to a historic drop in the homicide rate is violence intervention. The city must employ workers to intervene in the lives of those at highest risk of committing violent acts. The program to carry out the task of a city-wide, street-level violence intervention is CeaseFire New Orleans. Since its beginning in 2012, CeaseFire has laid its foundation in a ten-by-ten-block site area, the middle of Central City, or the 10th Ward. Within two years of installation (2013-2014), the Central City site went 235 straight days without any murders and 150 days without a shooting in the site area. In what was once statistically and historically the most violent area of the city, CeaseFire did the job that no other program could before. CeaseFire helped stop the shootings and killings with dramatic and noticeable effect.[2][3] |
” |
| —Charles O. Anderson (2017) | ||
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See also
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External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Charles O. Anderson for Mayor, "About," accessed August 3, 2017
- ↑ Charles O. Anderson, "Homicide Reduction Plan," accessed August 3, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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