5th Square announces its endorsement of Kendra Brooks for City Council At-Large!
We're excited to work together for a team on City Council that will advocate with us for a better Philadelphia with safe and affordable transportation, abundant housing and better public spaces.
We are proud to endorse Kendra, a daily public-transit rider and renter, who has a long history of advocating with communities with disabilities around accessibility issues. We strongly believe in Kendra's campaign priorities of affordability, equity and sustainability and fully support her campaign for City Council at-Large.
Don't forget to make your voting plan for November 5th and remember to hit button #716 for Kendra Brooks when voting for At-Large candidates as well as #116 for Helen Gym and if you're in the 3rd district, #121 for Jamie Gauthier.
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Our process for endorsing Kendra Brooks
We gave our membership the opportunity to review responses to our questionnaire and meet the candidates at our monthly meet-ups.
We conducted a straw poll in early October that had our subscribing membership rank the candidates in order of preference among all the questionnaire respondents .
In this straw poll we saw main consensus around Kendra Brooks who garnered 56% of our membership's first-choice vote and appeared on 86% of all ballots.
A breakdown of first-choice votes and all ballots are in the charts below.
Based on the straw poll results, we held an up-down vote on Kendra Brooks.
She earned the support of 82.7% of folks who voted among our sustaining members, surpassing our endorsement threshold of 75%.
We want to thank all the candidates for their response to our questionnaire. Picking endorsements is never easy and the candidates in this election cycle really reflect the immense progress towards our urbanist issues since our founding in 2014.
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