2011 Campaign For Common Councilor
Hawkins announced his candidacy for 4th District Common Councilor in Syracuse in September 2011, running as a Green Party candidate. His opponent is a Democrat, Khalid Bey. Hawkins received endorsements from the Syracuse Post Standard, the Green Party of Onondaga County, UNITE HERE Local 150, and the Greater Syracuse Labor Council.
Hawkins plans to sponsor resolutions for state tax code reforms to require more from the state's wealthiest, and to share more revenues with cities. He also supports the establishment of a municipal development bank to provide financing for local cooperative businesses and a 0.4% “commuter tax” on the incomes of suburbanites working in the city.
The final result, after the Board of Elections count of paper ballots and re-canvass, was 1214 to 1118, with Hawkins receiving 96 votes less than the winner, Khalid Bey.
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