Stephen Mosgrove
Stephen Mosgrove (Democratic Party) ran for election to the New Orleans City Council to represent District C in Louisiana. He lost in the primary on November 13, 2021.
Mosgrove completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Stephen Mosgrove was born in Marrero, Louisiana. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Boston College in 1993 and a graduate degree from the University of New Orleans in 2000. Mosgrove’s career experience includes working as a public servant, particularly in disaster recovery. He has been affiliated with the following organizations:
- Kiwanis of Algiers Club, Vice-President
- Aurora West Civic Association (Algiers), Member, Vice-President, & President
- Algiers One, Member
- COPS4[1]
Elections
2021
See also: City elections in New Orleans, Louisiana (2021)
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
General election
General election for New Orleans City Council District C
Freddie King III defeated Stephanie Bridges in the general election for New Orleans City Council District C on December 11, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Freddie King III (D) | 62.2 | 6,390 | |
| Stephanie Bridges (D) | 37.8 | 3,885 | ||
| Total votes: 10,275 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for New Orleans City Council District C
The following candidates ran in the primary for New Orleans City Council District C on November 13, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Freddie King III (D) | 44.0 | 5,804 | |
| ✔ | Stephanie Bridges (D) | 15.7 | 2,069 | |
| Frank Perez (D) | 11.6 | 1,532 | ||
| Alonzo Knox (D) | 11.2 | 1,477 | ||
| Stephen Mosgrove (D) | 9.1 | 1,199 | ||
| Barbara Waiters (D) | 5.2 | 688 | ||
| Vincent Milligan Jr. (No party preference) | 3.2 | 416 | ||
| Total votes: 13,185 | ||||
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Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Stephen Mosgrove completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Mosgrove'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 yearn for New Orleans to reach its full potential which, I believe, is a great and unique potential. It is a potential rooted in the shared culture of our hometown. I have been a voice for over thirty years leading this consciousness, belief, and message.
I hold in my heart a focus on community. I view my role in the world as a servant to people and someone who works to improve people's lives. I have been an advocate thinking about and voicing the need for positive, fundamental progress in New Orleans for three decades (often as a lonely voice until the message achieved more momentum in the early and mid 2000s).
I hope to continue to share my heart, ability, and people-focused thinking and leadership style with the residents of District C and the city. There is MUCH more real, fundamental work that our district and city need in order to move us forward to allow us to compete with other cities. Although public consciousness has risen over the last 20 years, our City still suffers from too much performative politics.
I look to provide sincere, authentic, capable, broad minded, people-centered, inclusive leadership.- District C needs a councilperson who is accessible, attentive, caring about every neighborhood in the district, independent, and is people focused instead of politics focused. My journey and background show that I am the only candidate who has walked this walk for decades and the only one who will continue to walk this walk towards accessibility, attentiveness and engagement, caring inclusiveness, and a focus on people and what's best for the community.
- In order for New Orleans to reach its true potential, City government (and related agencies) must function and function well. City government must know what its core duties are and do them. A local government that functions well will see a reduction in crime, an improvement in living conditions, efficient road and subsurface repairs, accountable sanitation services, honest regulation of utilities, responsive code and safety enforcement, timely removal of blight, equipped and revitalized parks, and a diversified economy and investment where knowledge and skills are rewarded fairly.
- The neighborhoods of District C and our city as a whole are unique and special. They must remain real neighborhoods where every day residents live, work, and play. Neighborhoods that are hollowed out by people moving away and disinvesting weakens our district's quality of life, economic viability, culture, and future. All of District C's neighborhoods need attention, care, solutions, and protection.
1.) Working to create a City government that functions, performs at a high standard, and that successfully provides the core services that people and businesses need.
2.) Creating a unified community that establishes comprehensive, fundamental, strategic solutions for a long-term reduction in crime.
3.) Housing, smart neighborhood re-development, and much better living conditions for New Orleans residents. This includes improving public transportation as part of housing and neighborhood re-development.
4.) Creating a diversified economy with higher wages, salaries, fulfillment, and true opportunity for all.
A functioning utility plays an important role in people's living conditions, quality of life, retention and expansion of a municipality's population, and economic development opportunities for the city and metropolitan area. So, the City Council's role in improving utility service is very important.
I also deeply appreciate history, its impact on the present and future, and the social psychology of communities. I am intellectually curious, capable, and competitive enough to want to see my hometown compete with other cities for retaining and acquiring the best intellectual, social, and economic capital that it can.
I want to help our city finally reach its vast potential as I have advocated and worked towards for decades.
What Once Was by Hers preceded Anniversary, but it's Anniversary now.
Over the many years, many people have seen in me something that I did not fully accept in myself. They have encouraged me, but I did not fully accept their encouragement because I felt constrained and limited.
The City Council's jurisdiction over land use matters is very important. Bad decisions by a councilmember and council can impact the quality of life for many residents, thwart good development, and keep our community from progressing forward in a balanced way.
Experience allows you to know how city government operates at the department level, how it behaves on the political level, what it prioritizes and why, what needs to change, and what skill sets are needed to make that change.
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 14, 2021
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