Jovani Patterson
Jovani Patterson (Republican Party) ran for election as President of the Baltimore City Council in Maryland. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Patterson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jovani Patterson was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He pursued his undergraduate education at Capitol College. Patterson's career experience includes working as a cyber security engineer.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: City elections in Baltimore, Maryland (2020)
General election
General election for Baltimore City Council President
Nick Mosby defeated Jovani Patterson in the general election for Baltimore City Council President on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Nick Mosby (D) | 79.5 | 178,689 |
 | Jovani Patterson (R)  | 19.0 | 42,628 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.5 | 3,361 | ||
| Total votes: 224,678 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Baltimore City Council President
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Baltimore City Council President on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Nick Mosby | 40.2 | 55,424 |
 | Shannon Sneed | 29.4 | 40,474 | |
 | Carl Stokes | 21.1 | 29,012 | |
| Leon Pinkett III | 4.0 | 5,503 | ||
| Dan Sparaco | 2.7 | 3,755 | ||
 | Marques Dent | 1.6 | 2,199 | |
| Leo Burroughs | 1.0 | 1,408 | ||
| Total votes: 137,775 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Baltimore City Council President
Jovani Patterson advanced from the Republican primary for Baltimore City Council President on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jovani Patterson | 100.0 | 4,918 |
| Total votes: 4,918 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jovani Patterson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Patterson's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Family - I'm the only one willing to be openly honest about the challenges Baltimore face, and that is the destruction of the family. With the breakdown of the family, men have been forced away from home, and generations are growing up without fathers. All too often times fathers who want to be involved emotionally, pushed away unless they pay and are punished by aggressive child support systems. We have a child support system that suggests it takes both parents to raise and support a family, yet a culture that suggests it only takes one and circuit judges that ultimately don't care about what's best for the family.
- Ownership - Baltimore's Tax rate is very prohibitive and a deterrent for ownership. To reduce the tax burden to a declining population, Baltimore City will need to reverse and expand its tax base. There are multiple ways to do this: 1) The city can obtain grant funding to restore dilapidated and abandoned homes and sell them to a family as an affordable housing option. 2) The city can sell off $0-tax vacant lots and properties and allow for private ownership of those properties. The private ownership will allow for a property tax to then be collected on what was not previously a source of revenue for the city.
- Opportunities - Baltimore is a city full of talented individuals, especially within the arts. As a city, our Arts and Entertainment should be an industry fostered and leveraged as an economy booster. Here we will create public and private partnerships to create opportunities for local talent, increase tourism and attract national talent, and export film and music-similar to what Atlanta has done with the film industry.
He is a person of consistency. My dad always treats people in the home fairly as well as outside the home. He was always the same no matter the group of people around him. My dad is also a hardworker. He never complains about getting the job done, and he instilled those same principles in myself and siblings.
Problem Solver. Not all problems can be solved in an hour or one day. Despite that, I always look to find a solution for a challenge.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 19, 2020
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