Schwartz, which occurred on her birthday. She decided not to run for reelection to the Council after the 1988 suicide of her husband, real estate lawyer David H. Indeed, before Schwartz's bid, no Republican mayoral candidate had crossed the 30 percent mark. In an interview in 1994, Schwartz said the results exceeded her expectations she had only expected to receive 10 percent of the vote running against Barry. She campaigned primarily on providing better basic services, arguing that 'there is no Republican or Democratic way to pick up the trash.' She lost, tallying 33 percent of the vote. In 1986, Schwartz ran for mayor against two-term incumbent Marion Barry. After Schwartz defeated Moore in the Republican primary, Moore decided to run a write-in campaign in the general election, but Schwartz won the general election as well. Moore, Jr., who had held the seat for ten years and who was also a Republican. In 1984 she ran for the City Council as an at-large member. Reelected four years later, she unsuccessfully ran for president of the Board of Education in 1980. politics in 1974 as a member of the Board of Education representing Ward 3. After graduation, she worked as a special education teacher in Austin, but she quit and moved to the District in 1966 after visiting the city. Schwartz graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1965 with a degree in elementary and special education. Growing up in Midland, Schwartz experienced anti-Semitism as a child, where she was one of very few Jewish people in the city. Early life īorn in Greenville, Mississippi, Schwartz lived with her family for brief periods in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, before settling down in Midland, Texas, where she spent nearly all of her childhood. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability by Mayor Muriel Bowser. She announced her fifth campaign for Mayor of the District of Columbia on J finishing behind Muriel Bowser and David Catania. A five-time perennial candidate for mayor, she is the only Republican nominee since the restoration of home rule to garner more than 30 percent of the vote. She became the first woman president of the Metropolitan Police Boys and Girls Clubs in its 61-year history.Carol Schwartz (born Janu) is an American politician from Washington, D.C., who served as a Republican at-large member on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1985 to 1989 and again from 1997 to 2009. She has volunteered for people with HIV/AIDS and other marginalized groups, and served for nearly two decades on the Board of the Whitman-Walker Clinic. She ran for Mayor several times in spite of the odds. the second jurisdiction in the country to have it. She also worked for the passage of sick and safe leave for private sector workers, making D.C. Carol advocated good government and sought to end some questionable government practices. She ran for and won a position on the D.C. Carol also helped to create Banneker Academic High School and work for educational reforms. Depression, though, and Jack Daniels ultimately caused David's death when the children were teenagers. Carol describes life with her own family-her three kids and husband David, who suffered from severe depression. And she was also the target of a brilliant but full-of-rage father. Carol was often responsible for caring for her beloved older brother and only sibling Johnny, who was intellectually disabled. There were only a few Jewish families and some prejudice. Carol talks about growing up on the poor side of the tracks in that small West Texas town, where she worked starting from age eight in the family store. Then a Republican in a city where Democrats made up nearly 80% of voters, she ran for Mayor and nearly beat Marion Barry in 1994 in the closest Mayoral election in the city's history. But Carol began a journey that took her away from the familiar to D.C. After graduating from the University of Texas in 1965, Carol Schwartz, born in Mississippi and raised in Midland, Texas, visited Washington, D.C.

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