Newark 2-A, 2-B & 2-CCity Council Members are elected representatives who serve on the legislative body of a city. They are responsible for making local laws (ordinances), approving budgets, and overseeing city operations. Council members work with the mayor and city staff to ensure city services are delivered and that the community’s needs are addressed.Source: Ohio Revised Code §§ 731.01–731.32, 733.01–733.34
Candidate has not yet responded.
Candidate has not yet responded.
Candidate has not yet responded.
Campaign Phone
7406180647
Contact Email
danielcrawford43055@gmail.com
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/DanielHCrawfordtheThird
Education (30 words)
Graduated 2003 (E-COT), Graduated 2013 (Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Government, Ashford University)
Current job (10 words)
Giant Eagle (Assistant Front End Leader): worked there since 2012
Work experience/qualifications (60 words)
Giant Eagle (since 2012), Door Dash (since 2025), Temp Worker (2010-2012), Goodwill (2006-2010), Anomatic Corporation (2004-2006), Wendys (2002-2004), McDonalds (2001), Family Business named H & S Cleaning Service (1996-1997)
phone
7406180647
notes
Lifelong passion for helping others and for activism. Also love to write and have published 3 books (working on one right now, in fact).
The largest issue facing Newark is rising poverty. The steady incline in the cost of living here is not helping matters. There is a significant homeless population in Newark. Save for cruel ordinance passed last year (Ordinance 24-36), the City has done nothing to address the plight of our unhoused brothers and sisters.
My objective is to serve the best interests of the people of Newark by first focusing on the root causes of this epidemic. There are many macroeconomic and societal factors that we can't control, but we can at least focus on developing safe and affordable housing (in addition to transitional housing), creating living wage jobs, continuing to improve and expand our public transportation while maintaining its reliability and affordability, improving an expanding our mental health and drug rehabilitation services. This is a complex issue, but we can start by understanding that we are all one paycheck away from being out on the streets ourselves. Empathy is essential.
From my educational background, lifelong activism, and life experience being homeless off and on as a child, I aim to pull from all of this to both instruct my approach from a compassionate world view, but also using my experience with over a decade in retail and customer service to work across the aisle and with the public to brainstorm for common sense solutions.
I aspire to be a proactive public servant who doesn't wait four years to interact with my constituents. I want to know what is on their minds. I want to be a champion for their needs and concerns. My inclination towards optimism and problem-solving is central to my objectives if I am so fortunate to be elected by the people of the Second Ward. While I love to be creative with solutions, I'm also not afraid to take inspiration from what works elsewhere. One example of this is my advocacy for so-called "tiny houses", which have been effective in reducing homelessness in other parts of the country.
I haven't been able to explore the question of public safety - a crucial topic for the people of Newark, as well as being inextricably linked with the issue of the unhoused, but I want to note that I am a proponent for doing what we can to meet our minimum staffing requirements for our police and fire departments.
We have been understaffed with our safety forces for as long as I have been actively involved in local politics, and that is unacceptable. Most of the concerns I hear from citizens about the issue of homelessness involves their concerns for safety and security. My answer to this is always that we need more frequent patrols in problematic areas. When a community starts to feel unsafe, the very least we can do is get officers visible in that area in an unpredictable pattern. This is less likely to happen when our officers are understaffed. Unfortunately, when the public sees no police they take matters into their own hands. That's a recipe for disaster. We can do better.
