Sallie Alcorn, according to a recent online posting on Facebook has gained the support of well-known Democratic State Representative Garnet Coleman. In case you don't know, Sallie Alcorn is running for Houston City Council At-Large Position #5 on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. Early voting will begin on Monday, October 21, 2019, and end on Friday, November 1, 2019.
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Back on Wednesday, August 7, 2019, Sallie Alcorn officially filed for her place on the Tuesday, November 5, 2019, ballot. In case you don’t know, Alcorn is running for the Houston City Council At-Large Position #5 seat that’s currently being held by Councilman Jack Christie who is term-limited and cannot seek re-election.
SALLIE FOR THE CITY
Anything can happen between now and the start of early voting which begins on Monday, October 21, 2019, and ends on Friday, November 1, 2019. But as of right now, Sallie Alcorn appears to be making a strong case for why she's the front-runner in the race for the Houston City Council At-Large Position #5 seat. However, she must seal the deal in the final stretch with a potent ground-game. When I checked the City of Houston's election page on Friday, August 9, 2019, the only candidates who had actually filed for their place on the ballot in the Houston City Council At-Large Position #5 race where Sallie Alcorn, J. Brad Batteau, Catherine Garcia Flowers, and Marvin McNeese Jr. But you can rest assure that more candidates are going to file to run for this coveted seat at the council table prior to the Monday, August 19, 2019 filing deadline.
ENDORSED BY STATE REP. COLEMAN
In a recent Facebook posting, I ran across the photo posted above of Sallie Alcorn and State Rep. Garnet Coleman. “Honored to gain the support of Representative Garnet Coleman, a tireless champion for health care, education, and economic development,” said Sallie Alcorn in the post. She went on to state, “Saw Rep. Coleman at this morning’s groundbreaking event for Houston’s first LGBTQ-affirming housing project for low-income seniors. He was instrumental in spearheading this important and needed project,” she explained. She also thanked State Representative Coleman in the post by saying, “Grateful for his service in the Texas legislature and his dedication to the Houston community.” She also went on to thank State Representative Garnet Coleman for his “FULL ENDORSEMENT” of her candidacy for Houston City Council At-Large Position #5.
Sallie Alcorn is pictured above with her family at Houston City Hall back on Wednesday, August 7, 2019. Pictured from (left to right) in the photo above are, George Alcorn, Janie Alcorn (on phone), Rosemary Comstock, Sallie Alcorn, Susie Alcorn, George Alcorn, and Maria Acorn (on phone).
GET TO KNOW SALLIE ALCORN
According to information gathered from her website by Houston Business Connections Newspaper©, Sallie Alcorn is a mom, a wife, and a dedicated public servant who is running for Houston City Council to continue serving the city she loves.
Sallie and George, her husband of thirty years, raised their four kids, George, Maria, Janie, and Susie in Houston. She considers her kids her greatest achievement, and she is enormously proud of the terrific young adults they’ve become.
Sallie is no stranger to City Hall where she has earned a reputation for being a strong staff leader with sharp analytical skills and a keen political sense. Sallie has served three council members and the city’s flood recovery officer. She also held two positions in the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development. Her passion for public policy is well reflected in her work on a broad range of issues including city finances, infrastructure, transportation, housing, and economic development.
As chief of staff to the chair of the budget and fiscal affairs committee, Sallie became an expert in navigating the city’s $5.4 billion budget. She helped develop the city’s comprehensive financial policies and orchestrated five years of budget hearings. She was heavily involved in initial Harvey recovery efforts and obtained grant funding to advance green stormwater infrastructure initiatives. She assembled and managed a task force to tackle redevelopment and flooding policies, worked with council members to identify neighborhood drainage projects, and led the charge to bring Houston’s Adopt-A-Drain Program to life.
Sallie also worked to alleviate food deserts, led park clean-ups, established an annual senior falls prevention event, and advocated for city policy to allow ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft to operate in Houston. In her work at the housing department, she successfully resolved compliance issues with HUD so federal affordable housing funds were restored to the city. In addition to these accomplishments, Sallie spent her many days at City Hall researching council agenda items, preparing ordinance amendments and briefing materials, and most importantly, responding to constituents needing help with city-related matters.
Sallie’s long history of serving her community extends well beyond City Hall. Each week she works with offenders as a volunteer facilitator for Bridges to Life, a restorative justice prison program aimed at reducing recidivism rates. She is on the advisory board of the San Jose Clinic and has served on the boards of Holocaust Museum Houston and the Houston READ Commission. She has chaired events and raised funds for the Holocaust Museum, the Women’s Fund, the Children’s Museum, the READ Commission, and the Contemporary Arts Museum. She also served for many years as a parent volunteer at her children’s schools. She and George are active members of St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church.
Sallie moved to Houston in the seventh grade and attended Westchester High School. She graduated with a finance degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a masters in public administration from the University of Houston. In addition to her work at City Hall, Sallie served as district director for a Houston-area congressman, worked as a legal assistant at a large law firm, and was a credit analyst at a commercial bank.
In her spare time, Sallie enjoys hiking, running (doesn’t really enjoy, but she runs), yoga, comedy, college football, the Astros, books, movies, the beach, and traveling to visit her kids.
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HOUSTON BUSINESS CONNECTIONS NEWSPAPER© WILL NO LONGER BE ENDORSING ANY POLITICAL CANDIDATES
While Houston Business Connections Newspaper© held it's own in the endorsement game, we will not be issuing any endorsements going forward. Instead of endorsing candidates, we will focus our efforts on assisting our "non-partisan" reader-base with identifying candidates running for office who value the vote, prayers, and support of every warm-blooded American.
HOUSTON BUSINESS CONNECTIONS NEWSPAPER© IS A TRUSTED NON-PARTISAN BRANDING AND MOBILIZATION TOOL
In case you don’t remember, in a head-to-head “ENDORSEMENT SHOWDOWN” candidates endorsed by a “select group” of Houston Business Connections Newspaper© readers performed significantly better than those endorsed by the Houston Chronicle editorial board back in the Tuesday, November 8, 2016, Presidential Election as Democratic candidates rolled to historic countywide victories over their Republicans counterparts in what, at the time, was the worst defeat ever for the Harris County Republican Party in its 71-year history.
HOUSTON BUSINESS CONNECTIONS NEWSPAPER© READERS SUPPORT CANDIDATES WHO VALUE THEIR VOTE
As a refresher, there were sixty-seven (67) races where a “select group” of Houston Business Connections Newspaper© readers went head-to-head against the Houston Chronicle editorial board. Fifty-one (51) of the sixty-seven (67) candidates endorsed by Houston Business Connections Newspaper© (in the head-to-head contest) back in the 2016 Presidential Election won their respective races on election night. By contrast, only thirty-eight (38) of the sixty-seven (67) candidates endorsed by the Houston Chronicle editorial board (in these key races) won their respective races back on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, in the Presidential Election as it relates specifically to Harris County, Texas.
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