Danyelle Christmas is an activist, running for City Council District E because she is tired of politicians making promises they never deliver on. As the child of a wrongfully convicted man who experienced Louisiana’s for-profit prison system firsthand, she lost a decade with her father and decided, "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

Danyelle is running to address the housing crisis, create economic development, and realize economic justice so the residents of New Orleans East/Lower 9th Ward can have access to a quality life. She will hold elected officials accountable so that they can then hold big business for-profit companies accountable.  Danyelle will address the infrastructure problems that has plagued the people of New Orleans for years. She aims to do what the government was designed to do: protect and serve the people it governs and ensure basic human rights for all people.

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Bob Murrell is a community organizer, democratic socialist, activist, and leader who is dedicated to fighting for the poor, marginalized, and working people in New Orleans now and for generations to come. Let's make this city better - together. 

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